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A Robot Revolution, This Time in China
Even a decade ago, car manufacturing in China was still a fairly low-tech, labor-intensive endeavor.
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Father of the Internet: 'ai Stands For Artificial Idiot'
Google chief Internet evangelist Vint Cerf said modern artificial intelligence systems are only as smart as the people who interact with them.
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What's Holding Back Self-Driving Cars? Human Drivers
The challenge of understanding drivers' behavior and the quirks of local traffic means the use of autonomous vehicles on public roads will be constrained for many...
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New Robotic Fish For Environmental Monitoring
Researchers are developing a fish-like underwater vehicle equipped with biosensors to monitor water quality.
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Kids, Parents Alike Worried About Privacy With Internet-Connected Toys
A new study points to anxieties about the potential for Wi-Fi-enabled Internet-connected toys to infringe on children's privacy.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
C-LEARN is a system designed to let users teach robots skills that they can pass along to other robots.
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Mobile Device Can Accurately and Inexpensively Monitor Air Quality Using Machine Learning
c-Air is a new, cost-effective mobile device designed to measure air quality.
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Researchers Use Twitter to Track the Flu in Real Time
Researchers have developed a computational model to project the spread of the seasonal flu in real time, using Twitter posts.
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Stanford Team Brings Quantum Computing Closer to Reality With New Materials
In an attempt to bring functional quantum computers closer to reality, researchers are developing materials that can trap a single isolated electron.
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Nanofridge Could Keep Quantum Computers Cool Enough to Calculate
Researchers have conceived of a nanoscale refrigerator to maintain temperatures cold enough to keep qubits functioning in a quantum computer.
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Cornell Cis and Adobe Collaboration Creates AI Photo Tool
Deep Photo Style Transfer software can transpose the look of one photo onto another.
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Harnessing the Potential of Big Data to Improve the Security of Internet of Things Devices
Researchers have proposed algorithms that generate and store a very small piece of secret information within an Internet of Things device.
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Nasa Challenges Coders to Speed p Its Supercomputer
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has issued a challenge to programmers to boost the performance of its Pleiades supercomputer.
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Inquisitive Bot Asks Questions to Test Your Understanding
Researchers say they have developed an artificial intelligence system that has learned to ask questions of its own.
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Computers That Can Smell
Eighteen teams participated in a competition to develop algorithms that can estimate how humans will perceive a particular odor from its molecular properties.
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Teaching Robots to Teach Other Robots
Most robots are programmed using one of two methods: learning from demonstration, in which they watch a task being done and then replicate it, or via motion-planning...
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Satellite Images Reveal Gaps in Global Population Data
Nigerian health officials won't have to rely on flawed, decade-old census data when they plan deliveries of the measles vaccine next year.
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Internet of Things Sensors Could Connect via Ambient Radio Waves
A new ultra-low-power system of sensors can transmit data to a central receiver by reflecting the ambient radio waves already in office environments.
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