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Moon-Landing Equivalent For Robotics: Assembling an Ikea Chair
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair.
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Facebook's Cyborg Virtual Assistant Is Learning From Its Trainers
Several hundred users of Facebook's mobile messaging app late last month were given access to M, the social network's new artificial intelligence-based virtual...
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Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
Imperial College London's Matthew Lai has developed a new artificial intelligence machine which he says can play chess at a master level.
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The False Science of Cryonics
I woke up on Saturday to a heartbreaking front-page article in the New York Times about a terminally ill young woman who chooses to freeze her brain.
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First Detailed Public Map of .s. Internet Backbone Could Make It Stronger
It may not look like much at first glance, but a map created by University of Wisconsin computer science professor Paul Barford and about a dozen colleagues took...
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How International Monitors Spot Nukes and Other Rumblings
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...
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Researchers Employ Baxter Robot to Help the Blind
Robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing assistive robots to help visually impaired travelers navigate the smart cities of the future.
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How Artificial Intelligence Can Fight Air Pollution in China
IBM is testing a prototype computer system capable of learning to predict the severity of air pollution in different parts of Beijing.
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ber Project May Improve Autonomous Cars' Vision
Uber is collaborating with the University of Arizona on a mapping and safety project for self-driving cars.
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Tool Makes It Easier to Evade Online Censors
A new tool could offer a way around censorship technologies enabled by repressive governments.
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Robots Learn to Make Pancakes From Wikihow Articles
European researchers have developed a robot that is learning to make pizzas and pancakes by reading through WikiHow's written directions.
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Team Designs Robots to Build Things in Messy, npredictable Situations
Researchers at Harvard University and the State University of New York at Buffalo are developing robots able to function outside of ideal, predictable environments...
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Teach Your Robot to Do the Dishes
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a robot that can help people wash their dishes.
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Teaching Machines to nderstand S
The first time Yann LeCun revolutionized artificial intelligence, it was a false dawn.
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Securing Today's Data Against Tomorrow's Quantum Computers
Microsoft researchers consider it vital for encryption upgrades to be developed now, to anticipate quantum computing's decryption potential.
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This Is What Controversies Look Like in the Twittersphere
Kiran Garimella and colleagues at Aalto University in Finland say they have developed a more reliable way of spotting controversies in the Twitterstream in real...
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A Programming Language For Robot Swarms
Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal researchers have developed a programming language designed to govern the movements of heterogeneous robot swarms.
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Military Robots: Armed, But How Dangerous?
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...
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Flying Robots That Can See
A tiny artificial eye inspired by the vision systems of insects could help small flying drones navigate their surroundings well enough to avoid collisions while...
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