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AI-powered avatar at tech show touted as 'artificial human'
Jan 08, 2020 (AFP)
Star Labs, a startup funded by Samsung, showed the painstakingly detailed AI-powered, two-dimensional digital creations to a large crowd, saying they are able t...
Samsung unveils AI-powered digital avatar
Jan 07, 2020 (AFP)
The announcement at the opening of the 2020 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas touted a new kind of artificial intelligence called NEON, produced by the ind...
2020 FIRST Robotics Kickoff Event Returns to Rocket City Jan. 4
Jan 06, 2020 (SPX)
FIRST Robotics is a national robotics competition for students in grades 9-12. Teams are challenged to raise funds, design a team brand, hone teamwork skills an...
Scientists develop gentle, microscopic hands to study tiny, soft materials
Dec 30, 2019 (SPX)
Three new studies show how scientists have honed a technique for handling tiny, soft particles using precisely controlled fluid flows that act as gentle microsc...
Space history is made in this NASA robot factory
Dec 27, 2019 (JPL)
The first probes launched to the Moon, Mars and Venus were assembled here. So were all of NASA's Mars rovers, Galileo and Cassini (the first orbiters to Jupiter...
Church of England questions ethics of investment in AI
Dec 23, 2019 (AFP)
The Church's Ethical Investment Advisory Group (EIAG) will determine whether some of the new technologies undermine "the very idea of God", a spokesman for the ...
Researchers call for harnessing, regulation of AI
Dec 12, 2019 (AFP)
The AI Now Institute, a New York University center studying the social implications of artificial intelligence, said that as these technologies become widely de...
Self-driving microrobots
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
A new study from the lab of Kyle Bishop, associate professor of chemical engineering, proposes a strategy for microscale robots that can sense symptoms of a mat...
Insects' drag-based flight mechanism could improve tiny flying robots
Dec 11, 2019 (SPX)
Unlike larger insects, birds, and airplanes, thrips don't rely on lift in order to fly. Instead, the tiny insects rely on a drag-based flight mechanism, keeping...
CIMON-2 is on its way to the ISS
Dec 06, 2019 (SPX)
"CIMON-1 - our prototype - landed back on Earth on 27 August 2019 after 14 months on the ISS, and has now arrived at Airbus in Friedrichshafen," says Christian ...
Helping machines perceive some laws of physics
Dec 03, 2019 (SPX)
Now MIT researchers have designed a model that demonstrates an understanding of some basic "intuitive physics" about how objects should behave. The model could ...
UK online supermarket Ocado strikes AI deal in Japan
Nov 29, 2019 (AFP)
"We are pleased to announce the signing of an agreement... to develop Aeon's online grocery business in Japan using the Ocado Smart Platform," the British group...
An astronaut controls a rover on Earth
Nov 27, 2019 (SPX)
Parmitano had already tested the remote operation of the rover and robotic arm during his 'test run' on 18 November. The experiment allows a human being to cont...
NUS researchers create new metallic material for flexible soft robots
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
Because these robots need to be flexible, they are often made from soft materials such as paper, plastic and rubber. To be functional, sensors and electrical co...
Hi Honey! NASA's Second Astrobee Wakes Up in Space
Nov 26, 2019 (SPX)
After Parmitano unpacked and inspected Honey, he placed the robot on Astrobee's docking station and Honey woke up on the dock, for the first time in space, next...
Scientists help soldiers figure out what robots know
Nov 25, 2019 (SPX)
Dr. Kristin Schaefer-Lay, an engineer with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command's Army Research Laboratory, is part of a multidisciplinary team...
NASA takes a cue from Silicon Valley to hatch artificial intelligence technologies
Nov 21, 2019 (SPX)
Machine learning is a type of AI. It describes the most widely used algorithms and other tools that allow computers to learn from data in order to make predicti...
Google Assistant to be 'news host' on devices
Nov 19, 2019 (AFP)
The feature called Your News Update will be activated by asking the Google Assistant to read the news. The artificial intelligence program will deliver "a mix o...
Driving test for Luca Parmitano on robotic geology science
Nov 19, 2019 (ESA)
In a series of experiments, collectively called Analog-1, the Space Station will be used as a stand-in for a spacecraft in orbit around another planetary body, ...
U.S. Army chooses FLIR's Kobra heavy robot vehicle
Nov 18, 2019 (UPI)
The track-mounted vehicles are used for explosive ordnance disposal and other heavy-lifting duties. The contract with FLIR, headquartered in Wilsonville, Ore., ...
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