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Amputee Simultaneously Controls Two Prosthetic Arms with His Mind
Replacement limbs that completely replicate the functions and abilities of real limbs are the current white whale of prosthetics, and we're getting closer: mind...
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Thought Control Makes Robot Arm Grab and Move Objects
A woman paralysed from the neck down can now grab a ball with a robotic arm—just by thinking about it.
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How Disney Is Perfecting Animated Eyeballs
Creating lifelike animated characters is hard.
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Nasa Rover Finds Active and Ancient Organic Chemistry on Mars
NASA's Mars Curiosity rover has measured a tenfold spike in methane, an organic chemical, in the atmosphere around it and detected other organic molecules in a...
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Stanford to Host 100-Year Study on Artificial Intelligence
Stanford University will spearhead a century-long initiative to study and predict the impact of artificial intelligence in all aspects of people's lives.
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As Robots Grow Smarter, American Workers Struggle to Keep p
Economists and technologists have long said the march of technological progress and increased automation will create new jobs and opportunities that offset the...
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Code2040 Helps Tech Plan For a Non-White-Majority sa
By 2040, the United States will have a non-white majority, a demographic trend that is spurring tech companies to increase the diversity of their workforces. CODE2040...
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Why Neural Networks Look Set to Thrash the Best Human Go Players For the First Time
University of Edinburgh researchers have applied machine-learning techniques and a vast database of games to train a neural network to find the next move in a...
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Venus Express Goes Gently Into the Night
ESA's Venus Express has ended its eight-year mission after far exceeding its planned life. The spacecraft exhausted its propellant during a series of thruster burns...
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ndersea Robot Explores Life Below Arctic Ice
While 2014 has not been kind to rockets, it has been a banner year for robots of all stripes.
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Innovators of Intelligence Look to Past
Inside the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, known as AI2, everything is a gleaming architectural white.
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New Way to Turn Genes On
Using a gene-editing system originally developed to delete specific genes, MIT researchers have now shown that they can reliably turn on any gene of their choosing...
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NASA Voyager: 'Tsunami Wave' Still Flies Through Interstellar Space
The Voyager 1 spacecraft has experienced three shock waves. The most recent shock wave, first observed in February 2014, still appears to be going on. One wave,...
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Robobrain: The World's First Knowledge Engine For Robots
One of the most exciting changes influencing modern life is the ability to search and interact with information on a scale that has never been possible before.
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4 Seconds of Body Cam Video Can Reveal a Biometric Fingerprint, Study Says
Researchers say they can have computers examine body camera video footage and accurately identify a person wearing a body-mounted device in about four seconds,a...
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Microsoft's Skype Translator Provides On-the-Fly Translations
Microsoft has launched a preview of its Skype Translator technology as a Windows 8.1 Skype Translator app, which enables the translation of typed and spoken messages...
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DARPA Offers Free Watson-Like Artificial Intelligence
The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has unveiled an open source version of IBM's Watson named DeepDive. The system's performance was ahead of or...
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sing Robots to Get More Food From Raw Materials
SINTEF researchers are developing Gribbot, a fully functional robot designed to automate the process of extracting breast fillets from chickens, a task normally...
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