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Nurse Robot Moxi Gets Schooled by Texas Nurses
A robot designed to test collaborative automation integration in a working medical facility recently concluded its first real-world trial in a Texas hospital.
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Walmart Leads the Way...in Floor Scrubbing Robots?
By the end of next month, Walmart will deploy floor-scrubbing robots in its stores.
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NSW Has Found a Way to Access Information Stored Within Atoms
Researchers at the University of New South Wales in Australia have demonstrated a compact sensor for accessing information stored in the electrons of individual...
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Need to Fix an iPhone or Android Device? You Can Now Break DRM nder New .S. Rules
It is now legal in the U.S. for consumers and repair companies to break an electronic device's digital rights management protections in order to to repair it.
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Watching YouTube Videos May Someday Let Robots Copy Humans
Researchers have trained a neural network to reconstruct human acrobatics in YouTube video clips and manipulate a simulated humanoid to ape those movements.
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Facebook, NY Aim to se AI to Speed p MRI Scans
Facebook's artificial intelligence laboratory, working with the New York University School of Medicine, generated reliable magnetic resonance imaging scans with...
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Exoskeletons Debut at Ford Factories
Ford plans to offer exoskeleton technology to its factory employees worldwide.
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IBM Watson Health Extends Partnership With .S. to Help Vets With Cancer
IBM Watson Health has extended its collaboration with the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to help treat veterans with cancer using artificial intelligence. ...
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Crystals Could Cool Down Your Future Electronic Devices
A team of researchers used boron arsenide crystals to cool electronic devices more effectively than current methods.
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How Do Autonomous Vehicles Learn to Drive? Download This Self-Driving Dataset and See for Yourself
The University of California, Berkeley has made available a massive dataset used by engineers in the development of driverless auto technologies.
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Meet REMS, the Robot That Discovered $17 Billion in Sunken Treasure
Two years ago, an autonomous underwater vehicle from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute located an underwater wreck containing $17 billion in sunken treasure.
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Developers Favoring AWS, Microsoft Azure for Cloud IoT Platforms
Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure are increasingly popular as cloud Internet of Things platforms.
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Sony, Carnegie Mellon Form Partnership to Research Cooking Robots
Researchers are studying how artificial intelligence and robotics can be used to improve food preparation, cooking, and delivery.
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niversity of Sydney Develops Quantum Trick to Block Background Sensor 'chatter'
Researchers have developed a method to block background "chatter," which they say solves a common problem associated with quantum sensing devices.
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There's a Huge Opportunity in Robotics For Early-Career Computer Scientists and Serious Software Engineers
University of Washington professor Maya Cakmak discusses the role of programming by demonstration in her work on human-machine interaction.
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Humans, Cover Your Mouths: Lip Reading Bots in the Wild
A new algorithm has outperformed professional human lip readers.
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Top500: .s. Knocked Out of 'top Three Most Powerful' List
The U.S. is no longer among the top three in the Top500's latest ranking of the world's fastest supercomputers.
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China Can Help Drive Global Progress in Quantum Computing
2000 ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Andrew Chi-Chih Yao says China could potentially take a global lead in quantum computing innovation.
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Back to Self-Driving School: The Simulator Teaching Vehicle Ais Road Sense
Researchers have developed a simulator employing convolutional neural networks and deep learning to enhance how vehicle artificial intelligence systems manage environmental...
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