NASA engineers are developing a team of robotic rovers that might eventually work alongside astronauts on Mars.Computerworld From ACM TechNews | May 6, 2010
University of Southampton computer scientists have developed a system of computerized agents that can manage energy use and storage in the home. niversity of Southampton From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
Waweru Mwangi, director of the Institute of Computer Science and Information Technology at Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta University, demonstrated his Basic Intelligent...Daily Nation (Kenya) From ACM TechNews | May 5, 2010
If you have a smartphone, you probably have a slice of Steve Furber's brain in your pocket. By the time you read this, his 1-billion-neuron silicon brain will be...New Scientist From ACM News | May 4, 2010
MIT researchers are developing a voice-operated robotic wheelchair for people with neurological disorders.The Boston Globe From ACM TechNews | April 30, 2010
The legal debate over America's undeclared drone war in Pakistan is getting sharper: In a congressional hearing yesterday, a prominent law professor suggested that...Wired From ACM News | April 29, 2010
NIST has announced that 11 university teams will square off next week in two contests designed to prove the viability of advanced technologies for robotic manufacturing...National Institute of Standards and Technology From ACM News | April 29, 2010
When physicists puzzle out the workings of some new part of nature, that knowledge can be used to build devices that do amazing things--airplanes that fly, radios...Scientific American From ACM News | April 28, 2010
University of Western Ontario researchers are developing smart cars that can see the conditions around them, assess the appropriateness of a driver's response,...Western News From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2010
Though still in its infancy, the work of Alexey Radul as a postdoc at MIT could someday have consequences for artificial-intelligence research, parallel computing...MIT News From ACM News | April 28, 2010
For a growing number of organizations worldwide, cloud computing offers a quick and affordable way to tap into IT infrastructure as an Internet service. But obstacles...Samuel Greengard From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2010
Researchers at Tel Aviv University and General Motors are developing algorithms that will enable car-mounted cameras to detect road hazards and alert drivers to...American Friends of Tel Aviv University From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2010
A team at the Italian Institute of Technology (IIT) in May will circulate to various labs the first components of a touch-sensitive skin for their iCub humanoid...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 21, 2010
Stroke patients who received robot-assisted therapy were able to regain some ability to use their arms, even if the stroke had occurred years earlier, according...MIT News From ACM News | April 20, 2010
With the phrase "web 2.0" falling out of vogue, the most exciting new uses of the internet are now all about the cloud, a term for servers invisibly doing smart...New Scientist From ACM News | April 19, 2010
University of Maryland professor Robert Finkelstein is building a robot designed to provide its own fuel source by grabbing sticks and branches, sawing them into...Forbes From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2010
A cat can recognize a face faster and more efficiently than a supercomputer. That's one reason a feline brain is the model for a biologically-inspired computer...University of Michigan From ACM News | April 15, 2010
EXPO21xx's online exhibition for the robotics industry features projects from more than 100 university robotics labs from around the world. PhysOrg.com From ACM TechNews | April 14, 2010
From the moment people are born, they learn to make associations and to understand words depending on the context of a sentence.
This learning continues throughout...BBC News From ACM News | April 13, 2010