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Study: Nobody Wants Social Robots That Look Like Humans Because They Threaten Our Identity
A recent study found the adoption of social robots into people's lives is complicated by humans' tendency to view human-like robots as a threat to their identity...
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This Robot Changes How It Looks at You to Match Your Personality
Sean Andrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed algorithms to help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways.
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The Neural Network That Remembers
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews.
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Sensors Slip Into the Brain, Then Dissolve When the Job Is Done
University of Illinois researchers have developed flexible sensors that can operate accurately inside the human body for at least five days before dissolving.
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Custom AI Programs Take on Top Ranked Humans in Starcraft
In a recent contest, three Artificial Intelligence programs played against a Russian player in StarCraft: Brood War.
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Iran Demonstrates New Humanoid Robot Surena Iii
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...
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Disney Software Makes It Easy to Design and Print Custom Walking Robots
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...
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Leap Second Heads Into Fierce Debate
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...
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Novel Nanostructures Could Usher in Touchless Displays
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany.
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Neural Implant Enables Paralyzed Als Patient to Type Six Words Per Minute
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.
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Europe Gears p For Land, Air, and Sea Robotics Competition
The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge is designed to assess how well cooperative robot systems perform as part of a simulated emergency-response operation.
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Researcher Hacks Self-Driving Car Sensors
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.
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Fbi Wants Better Automated Image Analysis For Tattoos
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to find a better way to search for matching tatoos...
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Testing Trust in Autonomous Vehicles By Fooling Human Passengers
A team at Stanford University's Center for Design Research has developed the Real Road Autonomous Driving Simulation that fools human participants into thinking...
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Children Beating p Robot Inspires New Escape Maneuver System
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot.
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Beyond Just 'big' Data
As big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these data sets shift, computer scientists will need new vocabulary.
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Medical Microbots Take a Fantastic Voyage Into Reality
In the 1966 film Fantastic Voyage, scientists at a U.S. laboratory shrink a submarine called Proteus and its human crew to microscopic size and then inject the...
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Mitsubishi Quiets Car Noise With Machine Learning
Mitsubishi Electric says its new noise suppression technology can improve the quality of hands-free phone communication in cars.
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Eben Upton: The Raspberry Pi Pioneer
Eben Upton, the inventor of the Raspberry Pi computer, got his start coding games in BASIC on a BBC Micro when he was 10.
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