Meet the man who wants to create architecture that understands everything about us — down to our emotional states — and learns from its mistakes.BBC News From ACM News | July 23, 2012
University of Arizona researchers say they have developed the most biologically accurate robotic legs by replicating the central pattern generator, a neuronal network...BBC News From ACM TechNews | July 11, 2012
American researchers took control of a flying drone by hacking into its GPS system—acting on a $1,000 (£640) dare from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.BBC News From ACM News | June 29, 2012
Based on Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K Dick, Ridley Scott's Blade Runner—the tale of a hunt for four dangerous "replicant" humans—is a classic...BBC News From ACM News | June 27, 2012
German scientists are developing a technique that allows for very precise positioning anywhere in space by picking up X-ray signals from pulsars.BBC News From ACM News | April 2, 2012
Computer science techniques have enabled archaeologists to discover about 9,000 possible early human settlements across 23,000 square miles in northeastern Syria...BBC News From ACM TechNews | March 26, 2012
Robots everywhere, driverless cars, new eco-solutions, screens that "read" feelings, and smart museums and stadiums—just some of the "City of the Future" technologies...BBC News From ACM News | March 9, 2012
A self-guiding bullet that can steer itself towards its target is being developed for use by the U.S. military.BBC News From ACM News | February 2, 2012
The intellectual rights relate to a method to switch a vehicle from a human-controlled mode into the state where it takes charge of the wheel.BBC News From ACM News | December 20, 2011
An American surveillance drone has been captured and filmed in Iran, where experts are apparently examining it.BBC News From ACM News | December 14, 2011
"If popular culture has taught us anything, it is that someday mankind must face and destroy the growing robot menace." Author and robotic engineer Daniel H Wilson's...BBC News From ACM News | November 22, 2011
"I'll be back" said Arnold Schwarzenegger as cyborg-assassin the Terminator, back from the year 2029 to carry out a murder in 1984. But it seems that, when it...BBC News From ACM News | October 19, 2011
Jai Menon, chief technology officer and vice-president for technical strategy for IBM's Systems and Technology Group, holds 52 patents and is arguably most famous...BBC News From ACM News | October 11, 2011
Robots are about to invade our lives. From performing household chores, to entertaining and educating our children, to looking after the elderly, roboticists...BBC News From ACM News | October 3, 2011
Researchers at Kingston University have created a system that uses artificial intelligence to recognise specific types of behaviour, such as someone holding a...BBC News From ACM News | August 25, 2011
The walking patterns of crabs, lobsters and spiders are helping to inspire new ways of getting robots to move around.BBC News From ACM News | March 29, 2011
With a global economy and flights that can take you all over the world in hours, why is it that we still struggle with a language barrier that technology is finding...BBC News From ACM News | November 10, 2010
University of Washington researchers are developing brain-computer interface (BCI) technology by teaching robots new skills using only brain signals. They are...BBC News From ACM TechNews | October 25, 2010