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Researchers Develop Soft Robot That Shifts from Land to Sea with Ease
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Moon-Landing Equivalent For Robotics: Assembling an Ikea Chair
Researchers at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore are developing a robot that will be able to assemble an IKEA chair.
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Facebook's Cyborg Virtual Assistant Is Learning From Its Trainers
Several hundred users of Facebook's mobile messaging app late last month were given access to M, the social network's new artificial intelligence-based virtual...
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Deep Learning Machine Teaches Itself Chess in 72 Hours, Plays at International Master Level
Imperial College London's Matthew Lai has developed a new artificial intelligence machine which he says can play chess at a master level.
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How International Monitors Spot Nukes and Other Rumblings
The ultimate nightmare for critics of the Iran nuclear deal being debated in Congress is that somehow, despite the agreement and all its built-in safeguards, Iran...
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Your Smartphone Can Tell If You're Bored
Researchers at Telefonica Research in Spain have developed an algorithm that enables a smartphone to determine whether or not its user is bored.
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Researchers Employ Baxter Robot to Help the Blind
Robotics researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing assistive robots to help visually impaired travelers navigate the smart cities of the future.
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ber Project May Improve Autonomous Cars' Vision
Uber is collaborating with the University of Arizona on a mapping and safety project for self-driving cars.
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Tool Makes It Easier to Evade Online Censors
A new tool could offer a way around censorship technologies enabled by repressive governments.
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Robots Learn to Make Pancakes From Wikihow Articles
European researchers have developed a robot that is learning to make pizzas and pancakes by reading through WikiHow's written directions.
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Team Designs Robots to Build Things in Messy, npredictable Situations
Researchers at Harvard University and the State University of New York at Buffalo are developing robots able to function outside of ideal, predictable environments...
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Bitcoin's Dark Side Could Get Darker
Programs that can confirm data and hold or use funds could help enable an insidious dimension of cryptocurrency's criminalization, according to newly released research...
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A Quicker Way to Pair Smartphones: Shake Them
Tampere University of Technology researchers say they have developed a fast and easy way to pair two smartphones to swap photos, documents, or other data. The...
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Teach Your Robot to Do the Dishes
Scientists at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have developed a robot that can help people wash their dishes.
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Teaching Machines to nderstand S
The first time Yann LeCun revolutionized artificial intelligence, it was a false dawn.
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Securing Today's Data Against Tomorrow's Quantum Computers
Microsoft researchers consider it vital for encryption upgrades to be developed now, to anticipate quantum computing's decryption potential.
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Military Robots: Armed, But How Dangerous?
An open letter calling for a ban on lethal weapons controlled by artificially intelligent machines was signed last week by thousands of scientists and technologists...
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India Loves Moocs
Massively open online courses have taken off in a big way in India, where they are meeting a need for education, particularly technical education.
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Deep Neural Nets Can Now Recognize Your Face in Thermal Images
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany have developed a method of matching infrared images and visible light images of the same face.
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Cars May Soon nderstand More of What You Say
Many cars today now come with limited voice control, but more elaborate and robust systems could be coming to cars soon.
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