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Object Recognition For Robots
John Leonard's group in the MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering specializes in SLAM, or simultaneous localization and mapping, the technique whereby mobile...
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Teaching Computers with Illusions
Exploring the ways human vision can be fooled is helping developers of machine vision.
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The Moral Challenges of Driverless Cars
Autonomous vehicles will need to decide on a course of action when presented with multiple less-than-ideal outcomes.
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Mother Robots Build Children Robots to Experiment With Artificial Evolution
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots.
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The Unintended Consequences of Rationality
Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences professor David C. Parkes contends rational models of economics are applicable to artificial intelligence.
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Deep-Learning AI Is Taking Over Tech. What Is It?
Have you ever begun a Google search, only to click on the words the box lays before you?
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The People 'possessed' By Computers
Sophia Ben-Achour looks like a typical London student. She has short, brown hair, dancing eyes and a wide smile.
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Inside the Fake Town in Michigan Where Self-Driving Cars Are Being Tested
Later this year a Michigan pedestrian named Sebastian will spend his days throwing himself in the path of speeding cars.
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Hitchhiking Robot Embarking on Coast-to-Coast Tour Across .s.
HitchBOT set out on its first cross-country tour of the U.S. on Friday.
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RoboCup World Championship: UNSW Student Engineers Take Robots to China to Defend Title
University of New South Wales student engineers are in Hefei, China, to defend their Standard Platform League title at the RoboCup World Championships.
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Welcome to the AI Conspiracy: The 'canadian Mafia' Behind Tech's Latest Craze
In the late '90s, Tomi Poutanen, a precocious computer whiz from Finland, hoped to do his dissertation on neural networks, a scientific method aimed at teaching...
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
Brown University researchers have developed an approach that enables robots to quickly determine the sequence of actions that will work in a particular environment...
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Astronomers Teach Machine to 'See' Galaxies in Space
University of Hertfordshire researchers say they have taught a machine to "see" astronomical images, including the ability to distinguish between galaxies.
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Minecraft Shows Robots How to Stop Dithering
The computer game Minecraft, which depicts a world made up of retro, pixelated blocks that can be modified and rearranged in endless architectural configurations...
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The Real Threat Posed By Powerful Computers
Computer specialists are less concerned about computers doing away with the human race than with the threat of programs rapidly overdoing a single task.
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An Algorithmic Sense of Humor? Not Yet.
In recent months, artificial-intelligence researchers have made giant strides in matching human performance in all kind of tasks that had, until recently, been...
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Elon Musk Gives $10 Million in Grants to Study Safe AI
Inventor and entrepreneur Elon Musk has given the Future of Life Institute $10 million to be distributed as 37 grants to research projects designed to keep artificial...
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Seahorse Tails Could Inspire New Generation of Robots
Clemson University researchers have developed a 3-D printed model based on the square prism of a seahorse tail, as well as a hypothetical cylindrical version. They...
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Google's Deep Learning Machine Learns to Synthesize Real World Images
Google Street View offers panoramic views of more or less any city street in much of the developed world, as well as views along countless footpaths, inside shopping...
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