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What Makes a Robot Likable?
Interactions with robotics teach us more about people.
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Microsoft Quantum Algorithm Boosts Medical Imaging
Microsoft and Case Western Reserve University researchers have enhanced the speed and quality of medical imaging with an algorithm designed to work on a future...
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Robots Have a Hard Time Grasping "Adversarial Objects"
Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, have extended the concept of adversarial images to robot grasping, using physical objects designed to be...
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Recognizing Kidney Injury Due to Burns Is Improved by AI
A new artificial intelligence/machine learning model can predict burn-related acute kidney injury quicker and more accurately than ever.
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Baseball's Robot mpires Are Here. You Might Not Notice the Difference.
The Atlantic League was the first U.S. professional baseball league to use a "robot" umpire, at its recent All-Star Game.
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AI Poker Bot Is First to Beat Professionals at Multiplayer Game
A new artificial intelligence program beat elite professional poker players at six-player no-limit Texas hold'em poker.
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Major League Baseball 'Robot mp' Calls 1st Professional Baseball Game with 1 Hitch, No Controversy
A computer in the press box communicated to the umpire whether each pitch was in or out of the strike zone, and the umpire relayed the calls to the field as usual...
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Robot ses Machine Learning to Harvest Lettuce
A new vegetable-picking robot uses machine learning to identify and harvest iceberg lettuce.
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Shopping Centers Exploring Facial Recognition in Brave New World of Retail
U.S. mall owners and retailers are ramping up their use of facial recognition to ascertain shoppers' traffic patterns, employee performance, and consumer response...
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FBI, ICE Find State Driver's License Photos a Gold Mine for Facial-Recognition Searches
U.S. federal investigators using facial-recognition technology to search millions of Americans' state driver's license photos, without their knowledge or permission...
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Neuromorphic Computing Finds New Life in Machine Learning
Researchers are working to resolve the fact that spiking neurons currently have no way that they can be trained via gradient descent—the basis of conventional machine...
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China's Big Brother Casinos Can Spot Who's Most Likely to Lose Big
Some of the world's biggest casino operators in the Chinese territory of Macao are using technology to identify which of their customers are likely to lose the...
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Astronomy Bot Speeds Search for Jupiter's Twins
A new astronomy algorithm can help identify stars around which planets may revolve.
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Researchers Develop 'Vaccine' Against Attacks on Machine Learning
New techniques can "vaccinate" algorithms against adversarial attacks.
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New AI Programming Language Goes Beyond Deep Learning
General-purpose language works for computer vision, robotics, statistics, and more.
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Eavesdropping on the Brain
Putting sound to thought, to hear what the brain is 'hearing.'
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MIT Develops a System to Give Robots More Human Senses
Researchers at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory have developed a system that could give robots the ability to link multiple senses....
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