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Experimental Google Smartphone Becomes Brain of Space Robot
Robots excel at the tedious, repetitive tasks that bore humans into ineffectiveness.
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Carnegie Mellon-Disney Researcher Invents 3D Printing Technique For Making Cuddly Stuff
Researchers have developed a type of three-dimensional printer that produces 3D objects made of a form of loose felt.
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A Face to Remember
Researchers have developed a way to change profile photos to highlight a person's most memorable facial features.
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2013 Visualization Challenge
With a Ph.D. in neuroscience and a love of Asian art, it may have been inevitable that Greg Dunn would combine them to create sparse, striking illustrations of...
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Computers Can Be Hacked Using High-Frequency Sound
Using the microphones and speakers that come standard in many of today's laptop computers and mobile devices, hackers can secretly transmit and receive data using...
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Patients Drive New Wheelchair With Their Tongues
The new Tongue Drive System is a wearable system that enables paralyzed people to control wheelchairs with flicks of their pierced tongues.
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In Cyberarms Race, North Korea Emerging As a Power, Not a Pushover
Often dismissed as a laggard in the global cyberarms race, North Korea has long been seen as a chronic cyber-superpower wannabe.
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Will These Guys Kill The Computer Interface As We Know It?
David Holz took the main stage at this year's South by Southwest Interactive, the annual innovation conference in Austin, Texas, looking like a hobbit on casual...
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Artificial Intellience in Mental Healthcare
The mental healthcare field is seeking to use artificial intelligent agents to provide training, consultation, and treatment services.
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Body-Double: Lifelike Android Demoed at Futuristic Conference
Osaka University Intelligent Robotics Laboratory director Hiroshi Ishiguro showed a robot that looks like him at the Global Futures 2045 International Congress.
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Touching the Future: Artificial Skin Isn't Sci-Fi
A whisper-thin new pressure sensor could be a step toward creating artificial skin that is able to actually feel.
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Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans By 2100, Experts Say
Some computer scientists believe the singularity at which artificial intelligence can match and overtake human intelligence could take place in only 16 years.
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Living in 'the Matrix' Requires Less Brain Power
Neurons called place cells in rat brains function differently when the animals are in virtual reality than when they are in the real world.
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Intelligent Robots Will Overtake Humans By 2100, Experts Say
Are you prepared to meet your robot overlords?
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Perpetual Motion Test Could Amend Theory of Time
In February 2012, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Frank Wilczek decided to go public with a strange and, he worried, somewhat embarrassing idea.
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Speed of Light May Not Be Constant, Physicists Say
The speed of light is constant, or so textbooks say. But some scientists are exploring the possibility that this cosmic speed limit changes, a consequence of the...
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Engineers se Brain Cells to Power Smart Grid
A team of engineers and neuroscientists is using neurons cultured in a dish to control simulated power grids.
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Printable Robots Designed to Be Consumer-Friendly, Inexpensive
A new project to automate the design and manufacturing of consumer robots uses two-dimensional desktop technology fabrication methods.
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Human-Robot Relations: Why We Should Worry
Technology is eroding social connections between human beings as machines step in to fill social needs, according to one researcher.
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