Communications of the ACM
A Healthy Dose of AI
Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Giving Robots a (better Than) Human Touch
A new robot can grasp an unattached USB cable and insert it into a USB port.
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In Sync: Researchers Discover Way to Coordinate Different Types of Robots
A new way to allow different types of robots to coordinate with each other could lead to improvements in areas like search and rescue after a disaster.
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Carnegie Mellon's Inflatable Robotic Arm Inspires Design of Disney's Latest Character
When Don Hall saw a robot arm made of balloons while visiting Carnegie Mellon University's Robotics Institute several years ago, he knew instantly that Baymax,...
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Self-Driving Car Advocates Tangle With Messy Morality
Sure, dealing with lane changes, firetrucks and construction projects is difficult for engineers building self-driving cars. But what about deciding which people...
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Computers Are Learning to See the World Like We Do
On the website Park or Bird on Flickr, a computer makes an educated guess as to whether a photograph was taken in a national park or shows a bird.
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Running Robots of Future May Learn From World’s Best Two-Legged Runners: Birds
A study of how birds run while minimizing energy cost, avoiding falls or injury, and maintaining speed and direction could help in developing better running robots...
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Investments Boost Neurotechnology Career Prospects
Mark Cembrowski was a graduate student in applied mathematics with a taste for neurobiology at Northwestern University when he discovered a way to marry his two...
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Random Image Experiment Reveals The Building Blocks of Human Imagination
Here's a curious experiment.
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Ft Interview with Google Co-Founder and Ceo Larry Page
Wouldn't the world be a happier place if 90 per cent of the people with jobs put their feet up instead and left the robots to do the work?
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What Is It Like to Control a Robotic Arm with a Brain Implant?
Jan Scheuermann is not your average experimental subject.
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Projecting a Robot's Intentions
Measurable virtual reality combines ceiling-mounted projectors with motion-capture technology and animation software to project a robot's intentions in real time...
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Computers Are Learning to See the World Like We Do
What animal is in the picture above?
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Google's Secretive Deepmind Start-up nveils A 'neural Turing Machine'
One of the great challenges of neuroscience is to understand the short-term working memory in the human brain.
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Prepare For the Part-Time Self-Driving Car
Self-driving AI cars have been a staple in popular culture for some time—any child of the 1980s will fondly remember both the Autobots and Knight Rider's KITT—but...
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The Rise of Human-Like Robots, Cars and Drones
Ginger is only a couple of feet tall, but she soon commands attention as she takes to the stage. "I would like to say it's a pleasure to be here," she tells the...
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Could a Robot Do Your Job?
Advances in technology could mean people in low-skill jobs will be replaced by robots.
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Google Teams p With Oxford Academics to Bring Human-Like Robots Closer to Reality
Google is collaborating with Oxford University researchers to help machines better understand users, and to improve visual-recognition systems using deep learning...
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Computing What Fits
New apps and pods improve the virtual and actual retail experiences by ensuring clothing and cosmetics look good on you before you buy them.
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Researchers Simplify Parallel Programming
Parallel computing has become increasingly important as chipmakers put more and more processor cores on individual chips.
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