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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Engineer Applies Robot Control Theory to Improve Prosthetic Legs
University of Texas at Dallas researchers have applied robot control theory to enable powered prosthetics to help amputees walk.
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Google's Intelligence Designer
Demis Hassabis started playing chess at age four and soon blossomed into a child prodigy.
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A Googler's Quest to Teach Machines How to nderstand Emotions
Quoc Le sees the world as a series of numbers.
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Carnegie Mellon's Cobot Robots Reach 1,000-Kilometer Milestone of Autonomous Operation
Robots deployed at Carnegie Mellon University have collectively reached 1,000 kilometers of autonomous operation.
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Brain Inspired Data Engineering
IMDEA Networks launched the BRAin inspired Data Engineering (BRADE-CM) research project in October.
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Google Can Now Tell You're Not a Robot With Just One Click
When Alan Turing first conceived of the Turing Test in 1947, he suggested that a computer program’s resemblance to a human mind could be gauged by making it answer...
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MIT Engineers Have High Hopes For Cheetah Robot
A new cheetah-inspired robot can run on batteries at speeds of more than 10 miles per hour, jump about 16 inches high, land safely, and continue running for 15...
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Stephen Hawking Warns Artificial Intelligence Could End Mankind
British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking says he worries about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.
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Firmer Footing For Robots With Smart Walking Sticks
The SupraPed robotic platform uses "smart staffs" inspired by walking sticks to better balance and move over uneven terrain.
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How Google 'translates' Pictures Into Words sing Vector Space Mathematics
Translating one language into another has always been a difficult task.
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Turing's Spirit Hovers at a Restored Estate
When "Captain Ridley's shooting party" gathered here in late August 1938 as weekend guests at Bletchley Park, a Buckinghamshire country house, they were accompanied...
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Decoding the Language of Human Movement
Computers that recognize what is happening in moving images can help defend against crime, and revolutionize rehabilitation.
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How to Teach Self-Driving Cars Ethics of the Road
A large truck speeding in the opposite direction suddenly veers into your lane.
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Researchers Announce Advance in Image-Recognition Software
Two groups of scientists, working independently, have created artificial intelligence software capable of recognizing and describing the content of photographs...
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Robots Put to Work on E-Waste
Researchers believe they have automated the process of disassembling liquid crystal display screens for recycling.
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Magic Tricks Created sing Artificial Intelligence for the First Time
Artificial intelligence researchers have taught a computer to create magic tricks.
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Window Washing Skills Beyond a Robot's Reach
As a pair of window washers clung to a scaffold dangling outside the 68th floor of 1 World Trade Center on Wednesday, the captivating drama left some below wondering...
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Google's Larry Page: The Most Ambitious Ceo in the niverse
As Google's core business continues to thrive, Larry Page is making huge bets on new technology—ingestible nanoparticles, balloons that beam down broadband—that...
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