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Robots Get Around By Mimicking Primates
Give a friend directions, such as, "it's across the street from a petrol station, just after a red brick building on the right..." and you can be pretty sure they'll...
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Mimicry Beats Consciousness in Gaming's Turing Test
The Turing test might still be too hard for software to crack—but two programs have already aced video gaming's answer to this famous evaluation of machine intelligence...
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Artificial Intelligence Fights Notorious Crop Pest
National Taiwan University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence system that can predict an outbreak of crop-damaging fruit fly swarms.
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Watson Turns Medic: Supercomputer to Diagnose Disease
It is more than a year since Watson, IBM's famous supercomputer, opened a new frontier for artificial intelligence by beating human champions of the quiz show Jeopardy...
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Digital Doppelgangers: Building an Army of You
U.S. National Science Foundation researchers have developed a smart, animated, digital double that can interact with other people via a screen when the user is...
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Micro-Drones: The New Face of Cutting-Edge Warfare
Micro-aerial vehicles (MAVs) with uncanny navigation and real-time mapping capabilities could soon be zipping through indoor and outdoor spaces, running reconnaissance...
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Robot Avatar Body Controlled By Thought Alone
Researchers have used functional magnetic resonance imagery to scan the brain of a student as he imagined moving different parts of his body. The researchers hope...
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Bot With Boyish Personality Wins Biggest Turing Test
The chatbot Eugene Goostman fooled Turing test judges 29 percent of the time into thinking it was human to take first place in the recent contest in the United...
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The AI Game That Knows You Better Than Anyone
Many computer science researchers are trying to create an AI system that offers video game players a more tailored experience.
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Mind-Reading Robot Teachers Keep Students Focused
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have developed a robotic teacher that monitors students' attention levels and mimics the techniques human teachers use...
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Telerobotics Offers Third Way For Space Exploration
Space exploration may have a new direction. In the 1960s, humans did the exploring but since the last moon landing in 1972, NASA's only explorers beyond low Earth...
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Gps Loss Kicked Off Fatal Drone Crash
Hopes that a new breed of commercial drones can be easily integrated into civilian airspace have been dashed after it was revealed that the loss of the technology...
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AI Branding Automates the Brainstorm
Bruno Kessler Foundation researchers Carlo Strapparava and Gozde Ozbal have developed artificial intelligence-based branding software that can mimic the process...
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AI Designs Its Own Video Game
It is never going to compete with the latest iteration of Call of Duty, but then Space Station Invaders is not your typical blockbuster video game. While modern...
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Smart Guide to 2012: How Best to Test Machine Iq
AI programs did not fare well in convincing judges at the 2011 Loebner prize competition that they were people.
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Body-Sharing Robot Lets You Experience Another Place
Ever wished you could be in two places at once? Now you can share your body with a telepresence robot created by Dzmitry Tsetserukou of Toyohashi University of...
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Artificial Intelligence Joins the Fossil Hunt
Researchers at Western Michigan University and Washington University in St. Louis have developed a predictive model that uses computer learning systems to identify...
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Robot 'mission Impossible' Wins Video Prize
You could call it Mission Impossible: Robot Library Heist. An army of flying, rolling, and climbing robots have been taught to work together to find and snatch...
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Robots Use Kinect to Understand Our World
Cornell University researchers are teaching robots to understand the context of their surroundings so that they can pick out individual objects in a room.
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