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Robots Are Narrowing the Gap With Humans
Robots are gaining on us humans. Guided by increased computing power, robots can now perform such tasks as picking up and peeling bananas, landing jumbo jets, steering...
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Harnessing Spammers to Solve AI Problems
Some Completely Automated Public Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart (CAPTCHAs) security systems are already being solved by spammers, but CAPTCHA co...
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Robot Communicates sing Eye Movements Alone
A team at the Tokyo Institute of Technology is trying to enable humans and robots to communicate nonverbally. Yoichi Yamazaki and colleagues have developed an...
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Researcher Leads Quest For Robots That Take Orders From the Brain
University of Washington (UW) researcher and MacArthur Foundation Fellow recipient Yoky Matsuoka specializes in the field of neurobotics, which focuses on the development...
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Engineering Professor Explores Underwater Wireless Communications
Northeastern University professor Milica Stojanovic says the discovery of the Titanic in 1985 underscored the need for underwater wireless communications technology...
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The Stranger Side of Chi 2009
ACM's CHI 2009, the 27th Computer-Human Interaction Conference, spotlighted many new inventions and concepts, some of which were decidedly unusual. These included...
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Tech Mainstays Promote Machines That Fix Themselves
Technology companies are embracing self-healing technology, a computing strategy that could have a major impact on the data center and the desktop. IBM uses self...
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Artificial Intelligence to Tackle Rogue Traders
The University of Sunderland's Computerized Analysis of Stocks and Shares for Novelty Detection of Radical Activities (CASSANDRA) project is developing a software...
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Robotic Gardeners: MIT Droids Tend Plants
A class of undergraduates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has created a set of robots that can water, harvest and pollinate cherry tomato plants. The...
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Robot Suit Will Turn You Into Ironman
A cybernetic bodysuit developed by Cyberdyne Corp. and Daiwa House of Japan augments body movement and increases user strength by up to tenfold. The HAL (Hybrid...
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Robot That Can Turn Cartwheels, Do Somersaults
Sherry Randhawa of Flinders University in Adelaide, Australia, recently demonstrated some of the school's progress in robotics and computing. A major attraction...
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Self-Directed Robot Scientist Makes Discovery
A robot developed by researchers at the United Kingdom's Aberystwyth University has discovered 12 new functions for genes entirely on its own. "Our goal is to...
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Recent Research Tackles the Complexity of Self-Awareness
Researchers at the Universidad Politecnica de Madrid's School of Computing are using modular neural networks to model cognitive functions related to awareness and...
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Honda Develops Brain Interface For Robot Control
Honda Motor's Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International (ATR) and Shimadzu have co-developed a brain-machine interface system that enables people...
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University Creates Robot to Build Red Cabin on the Moon
Students at Sweden's Malardalen University will build a smart robot to construct a little red cabin on the moon. The team has been charged with taking the House...
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Bangor Scientists Make Star Trek's Holodeck Virtually a Reality
Bangor University computer scientists Nigel John and Jonathan Roberts are developing a "virtual cocoon" that will enable users to experience virtual sites using...
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Can Robots Be Programmed to Learn From Their Own Experiences?
Inexpensive personal robots could be available soon, but they first have to be able to learn to perform tasks that human know how to do instinctively, says Iowa...
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Operator Can 'feel' What Robot Grips
Researchers at Australia's Deakin University have developed a robot that enables its operator to "feel" the environment that it is working in. The researchers plan...
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Swimming Pool Game 'marco Polo' Used to Develop Robot Control
Researchers at Duke University and the University of New Mexico (UNM) have developed a system for controlling moving robots capable of autonomously detecting and...
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