Most industrial robots are far less friendly than the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, which is safe enough to be a surprisingly popular means of feline transportation...MIT Technology Review From ACM News | April 28, 2014
Microsoft's forthcoming mobile operating system upgrade will include Cortana, a virtual personal assistant designed to become more intelligent as people use it. ...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 28, 2014
Someone glancing through the door of Annjoe Wong-Foy's lab at SRI International might think his equipment is infested by ants.Technology Review From ACM News | April 17, 2014
In less than 60 days, Brazil will begin hosting soccer's 2014 World Cup, even though workers are still hurrying to pour concrete at three unfinished stadiums.MIT Technology Review From ACM News | April 16, 2014
SRI International is rethinking the design of Boston Dynamics' Atlas robot to try to help the machine retain its capabilities while trimming its power consumption...Technology Review From ACM TechNews | April 15, 2014
The Atlas humanoid robot, unveiled last year by Boston Dynamics, a company later acquired by Google, is a marvel.Technology Review From ACM News | April 7, 2014
Asked whether two unfamiliar photos of faces show the same person, a human being will get it right 97.53 percent of the time.Technology Review From ACM News | March 18, 2014
Igor Spetic's hand was in a fist when it was severed by a forging hammer three years ago as he made an aluminum jet part at his job.Technology Review From ACM News | February 27, 2014
A Dutch man who lost his left hand in a fireworks accident nine years ago is now able to feel different kinds of pressure on three fingers of a prosthetic, robotic...Technology Review From ACM News | February 6, 2014
Doctors will attempt to reanimate a patient’s paralyzed arm with a pioneering surgery that involves capturing signals from his brain and restoring movement through...Technology Review From ACM News | January 16, 2014
CloudFridge is a prototype smart refrigerator system designed to study and improve the user experience. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | January 15, 2014
There have been remarkable mechanical advances in prosthetic limbs in recent years, including rewiring nerve fibers to control sophisticated mechanical arms (see...Technology Review From ACM News | December 5, 2013
A silver BMW 5 Series is weaving through traffic at roughly 120 kilometers per hour (75 mph) on a freeway that cuts northeast through Bavaria between Munich and...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | October 30, 2013
Roboy is a four-foot-tall humanoid robot with a set of muscles inspired by the human musculoskeletal system. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | September 30, 2013
Robots usually look rigid and nonhuman, with joints engineered to avoid the elasticity that can make their movements less predictable and harder to control.Technology Review From ACM News | September 27, 2013
Sebastian Thrun has worn many hats in the tech world: Stanford research professor, founder of Google's X Labs, where he oversaw the development of self-drivingUdacity...Technology Review From ACM Opinion | July 19, 2013
SRI International has created a predictive assistant called Bright that reduces cognitive overload by providing specific information at the right time. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | July 1, 2013