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A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Flexible Robots Make Their Own Decisions
University West researchers have developed an automation system in which machines and robots make their own decisions and adapt to external circumstances.
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Illinois Robotics Lab's Hytaq Moves in Air, Rolls on Land
Illinois Institute of Technology researchers have developed the Hybrid Terrestrial and Aerial Quadrotator (HyTAQ), a robotic vehicle that can move on land and through...
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The Robotic Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers have developed milli-motein, a tiny robot that could lead to future devices that can fold themselves into almost...
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The Robotic Equivalent of a Swiss Army Knife
The device doesn't look like much: a caterpillar-sized assembly of metal rings and strips resembling something you might find buried in a home-workshop drawer.
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For Lonely Astronauts, a Robotic Companion
You know the only thing lonelier than Sgt. Pepper's Hearts Club Band, and the Heartbreak Hotel, and the number one? Being alone and also not on Earth.
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Teaching Tiny Drones How to Fly Themselves
Thanks to the wars in the Middle East, drones like the Predator have become household names.
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Quantum Quests
Three breakthrough experiments involving photons have extended coherence times and indicated scalable production.
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Cambridge to Study Technology's Risk to Humans
The potential risks that super intelligent technologies pose to humans will be the focus of the proposed Center for the Study of Existential Risk at Cambridge University...
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Risk of Robot prising Wiping Out Human Race to Be Studied
The Centre for the Study of Existential Risk will study dangers posed by biotechnology, artificial life, nanotechnology, and climate change.
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Scientists See Promise in Deep-Learning Programs
Deep-learning technology, an artificial intelligence technique inspired by theories about how the brain recognizes patterns, has grown in speed and accuracy. Deep...
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X-37b: Secrets of the .s. Military Spaceplane
In the early morning of 16 June, 2012, a top-secret spaceplane made a picture-perfect landing at the Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
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Brain-Like Chip Outstrips Normal Computers
Computer chips that mimic the human brain are outstripping conventional chips in crucial ways. They could also revolutionise our understanding of how the brain...
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Michio Kaku Sketches Technological Wonderland of the Future at Sc12
Imagine a world where a computer chip costs just a penny.
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Why the Frontiers of Biology Might Be Inside a Computer Chip
When David Harel started the experiment, the petri dish of mouse cells looked just like any other.
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Say Hello, or 你好, to China’s Siri
You might not have heard of iFlyTek. The company is hardly a household name in its domestic market of China, either.
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Bluebrain: Noah Hutton's 10-Year Documentary About the Mission to Reverse Engineer the Human Brain
"Nothing quite like it exists yet, but we have begun building it," Henry Markram wrote in the June 2012 issue of Scientific American. He was referring to a "fantastic...
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Almost Being There: Why the Future of Space Exploration Is Not What You Think
Mocup is a tiny, adorable remote-controlled robot built from a Lego Mindstorms set with an off-the-shelf Beagleboard computer for a brain and a webcam for an eye...
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Will We Ever nderstand How Our Brains Work?
When it comes to the human brain, many scientists believe that we are incapable of understanding how it works because we lack the tools and intelligence to measure...
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