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IBM's Watson app whips up Big Data in the kitchen
Jun 30, 2014 (AFP)
Putting a chef's hat on its Watson supercomputer, IBM and the magazine Bon Appetit unveiled a new initiative Monday that seeks to use Big Data for gastronomy. A...
Japan unveils 'world's first' android newscaster
Jun 24, 2014 (AFP)
Japanese scientists on Tuesday unveiled what they said was the world's first news-reading android, eerily lifelike and possessing a sense of humour to match her...
Japan PM Abe wants to stage 2020 Robot Olympics
Jun 19, 2014 (AFP)
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe wants to stage a "Robot Olympics" in 2020, the same year Tokyo hosts the Summer Games, local media reported Thursday. Abe als...
Japan robot firm showcases thought-controlled suits
Jun 18, 2014 (AFP)
A Japanese robot-maker on Wednesday showed off suits that the wearer can control just by thinking, as it said it was linking up with an industrial city promotin...
New computer program aims to teach itself everything about anything
Jun 13, 2014 (SPX)
In today's digitally driven world, access to information appears limitless. But when you have something specific in mind that you don't know, like the name of t...
Football-playing robots eye their own cup, and beyond
Jun 12, 2014 (AFP)
When robots play football, it looks like a game played by five-year-olds: they swarm around the ball, kick haphazardly and fall down a lot. But robot teams have...
Supercomputer emulates teenager to pass 'Turing Test'
Jun 09, 2014 (AFP)
A Russian supercomputer posing as a 13-year-old boy has convinced judges that it is human, becoming the first to pass the "Turing Test" in a historic moment in ...
DARPA Z-Man Program Demonstrates Human Climbing Like Geckos
Jun 09, 2014 (SPX)
DARPA's Z-Man program has demonstrated the first known human climbing of a glass wall using climbing devices inspired by geckos. The historic ascent involved a ...
Chatty Japan robot makes friends on first day at work
Jun 06, 2014 (AFP)
A chatty humanoid robot whose makers claim it can understand people's emotions made its first friends Friday as it struck up conversations with shoppers in Toky...
Japan's SoftBank unveils 'family member' robot
Jun 05, 2014 (AFP)
Japan's SoftBank on Thursday unveiled what it billed as an "emotional" humanoid robot that will entertain customers at the mobile carrier's phone outlets -- and...
Here come the 'brobots'
Jun 03, 2014 (SPX)
A team of researchers at the University of Twente (Netherlands) and German University in Cairo (Egypt) has developed sp*rm-inspired microrobots, which can be co...
Combat robots to become Russian army new recruits
Jun 03, 2014 (Voice of Russia)
Russia's newly established military robot design lab has finally gone into operation, Oleg Bochkarev, deputy head of Russia's governmental Military-Industrial C...
New printable robots could self-assemble when heated
Jun 02, 2014 (SPX)
Printable robots - those that can be assembled from parts produced by 3-D printers - have long been a topic of research in the lab of Daniela Rus, the Andrew an...
Ultra-fast, the bionic arm can catch objects on the fly
May 14, 2014 (SPX)
With its palm open, the robot is completely motionless. A split second later, it suddenly unwinds and catches all sorts of flying objects thrown in its directio...
UN talks take aim at 'killer robots'
May 13, 2014 (AFP)
Armies of Terminator-like warriors fan out across the battlefield, destroying everything in their path, as swarms of fellow robots rain fire from the skies. Tha...
DARPA-Funded DEKA Arm System Earns FDA Approval
May 13, 2014 (SPX)
DARPA launched the Revolutionizing Prosthetics program with a radical goal: gain U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for an advanced electromechani...
Exoskeleton to remote-control robot
May 09, 2014 (SPX)
Visionary 'rocket scientists' will share their ideas at the TEDx RocketMinds event at ESA's operations centre in Darmstadt, Germany. Andre Schiele, leading ESA'...
Robots may need to include parental controls
May 07, 2014 (SPX)
Older adults' fears that companion robots will negatively affect young people may create design challenges for developers hoping to build robots for older users...
MDA selected to define robotic concepts for deep-space missions
May 01, 2014 (SPX)
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has received two contracts from the Canadian Space Agency to define critical technologies and assess potential contributions...
Programming the smart home: 'If this, then that'
Apr 30, 2014 (SPX)
The idea of a smart home sounds promising enough. Who doesn't want a house full of automated gadgets - from light switches to appliances to heating systems - th...
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