Four unmanned autonomous vehicles designed and built by a team of engineering students at Virginia Tech are headed to Hawaii to participate in the 2010 Rim of...Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University From ACM News | June 22, 2010
Robots are already in use by U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, and their variety and use is only growing.Scientific American From ACM News | June 22, 2010
Oregon State University professor John Schmitt and his colleagues look to cockroaches and guinea hens as locomotion models for future robots that can easily run...Natural Science Foundation From ACM News | June 21, 2010
Japanese engineers have created two robots designed to interact with children and mimic human growth. Researchers say the robots could inform cognitive development...CNet From ACM TechNews | June 17, 2010
USC's Institute for Creative Technologies has created virtual humans embedded with artificial intelligence algorithms and video graphics technologies to help them...Miller-McCune From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2010
University of California, San Diego artificial intelligence researcher Luke Barrington is developing software that can analyze a piece of music and compile information...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 16, 2010
Japanese researchers have created a baby robot designed to simulate the behavior and development of a real infant in an effort to better understand how humans grow...Agence France Presse From ACM News | June 15, 2010
On a Tuesday evening this spring, Sergey Brin, the co-founder of Google, became part man and part machine. About 40 people, all gathered here at a NASA campus for...The New York Times From ACM News | June 14, 2010
Swiss researchers are developing a swarm of single-propeller robots that are able to self-assemble and take flight. CNet Asia From ACM TechNews | June 11, 2010
Researchers at the Electric Power Research Institute have developed a robot that can crawl along transmission lines to inspect electrical wires without the need...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 10, 2010
The Ghana-India Kofi Annan Center of Excellence in ICT (AITI-KACE) has partnered with the EU Pascal2 Network of Excellence to establish an artificial intelligence...Myjoyonline.com From ACM TechNews | June 9, 2010
University of Arizona professor Ian Fasel's Concept Learning from Intrinsically Motivated sensory-motor Experience project is researching what robots are able to...University of Arizona From ACM TechNews | June 8, 2010
Zoe Graystone is a girl with two brains. Only one of them is human: the other is an exact digital copy that has become conscious in its own right. When the human...New Scientist From ACM News | June 7, 2010
University of Hong Kong students trained a convolutional neural network built for image recognition to classify music.Technology Review From ACM News | June 3, 2010
UCLA researchers have developed Image to Text (I2T), a computer vision system that can generate a real-time text description of what is happening in a surveillance...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2010
The United Kingdom's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is developing high-resolution imaging technology for a surveillance systems that can recognize and...BBC News From ACM TechNews | June 2, 2010
Two scientists have paired up to develop procedure-based, hands-on surgical training software, which has the potential to revolutionize surgical training worldwide...University at Buffalo From ACM News | June 2, 2010
Willow Garage has given 11 teams from around the world the right to use its PR2 open source robots and operating system to develop new uses for the technology and...CNet From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2010
Oregon State University researchers say they have made a fundamental advance in robotics that could lead to robots that use little energy to walk and run effectively...Oregon State niversity News From ACM News | May 28, 2010