Opting for simplicity, researchers from Cornell University, University of Chicago and iRobot have bypassed traditional robotic designs based around the human hand...Cornell University From ACM News | October 26, 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
MIT’s Media Lab recently hosted a series of talks to celebrate its 25th anniversary. Anyone who has paid attention to technology news over that period has undoubtedly...Wired From ACM News | October 25, 2010
Tim Nichols measures fun. A slim, 32-year-old psychologist, he spends his days behind a one-way mirror at Microsoft’s video games research center here, watching...The New York Times From ACM News | October 25, 2010
Robots are already vacuuming our carpets, heading into combat and assisting docs on medical procedures. Get ready for a next generation of "near human" bots that'll...Wired From ACM News | October 22, 2010
Canada has announced NECSIS, the Network on Engineering Complex Software Intensive Systems for Automotive Systems, a national research network that will use innovative...McMaster niversity From ACM TechNews | October 22, 2010
MIT researchers have developed TurKit, a toolkit that enables users to write algorithms to coordinate online workers using Javascript and create human intelligence...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | October 20, 2010
Actions speak louder than words, particularly if you are a robot. At least that is the theory proposed by the PACO-PLUS project, which aims to develop a new approach... From ICT Results | October 18, 2010
A new lawsuit alleges that Predator drone targeting software was pirated, and emails suggest the CIA knew it was sub-par. From ACM News | October 18, 2010
University of Washington researchers report that babies who watched a robot interact socially with people were more willing to learn from the robot than babies...niversity of Washington From ACM News | October 14, 2010
Isaac Asimov would probably have been horrified at the experiments under way in a robotics lab in Slovenia. There, a powerful robot has been hitting people over...New Scientist From ACM News | October 14, 2010
The life-sized humanoid robot known as HRP-4 has been taught to sing using synthesized voice technology. The robot is also able to mimic the expressions of a human...Daily Mail From ACM News | October 14, 2010
Researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute are poised to show the U.S. Army an advanced approach to enabling autonomous collaboration among dissimilar robotic...Georgia Institute of Technology From ACM News | October 13, 2010
The U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration recently announced that it has started using autonomous robot vehicles to patrol the vast desert surrounding...Singularity Hub From ACM News | October 12, 2010
Anyone driving the twists of Highway 1 between San Francisco and Los Angeles recently may have glimpsed a Toyota Prius with a curious funnel-like cylinder on...The New York Times From ACM News | October 12, 2010
Man's first 50 years of spaceflight may have been fuelled by human ingenuity but it is artificial intelligence that will play an increasingly important role in...Silicon From ACM News | October 12, 2010
Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and scientists from the Intel Labs site on the CMU campus recently held an open house to show off their projects, including...eWeek From ACM TechNews | October 6, 2010
Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined—win at chess, predict the weather—and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced...The New York Times From ACM News | October 5, 2010
The Ecole Polytechnic Federale de Lausanne is experimenting with flying robots that would create a communications network for rescuers in disaster areas. Researchers...Wired From ACM TechNews | October 1, 2010