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UN to host first talks on use of 'killer robots'
Nov 10, 2017 (AFP)
More than 100 artificial intelligence entrepreneurs led by Tesla's Elon Musk in August urged the UN to enforce a global ban on fully-automated weapons, echoing ...
Computer system finds 'recipes' for producing materials
Nov 08, 2017 (SPX)
But developing processes for producing those materials has continued to depend on a combination of experience, intuition, and manual literature reviews. A team ...
Study shows need for adaptive powered knee prosthesis to assist amputees
Nov 06, 2017 (SPX)
Andrea Brandt, a Ph.D. student in the NC State and University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Joint Department of Biomedical Engineering, wanted to chart a new co...
Researchers unveil tool to debug 'black box' deep learning algorithms
Oct 26, 2017 (SPX)
Self-driving cars depend on a form of machine learning called deep learning. Modeled after the human brain, layers of artificial neurons process and consolidate...
Robot wars: US smashes Japan in giant days-long duel
Oct 19, 2017 (AFP)
The two massive and heavily armed machines went claw-to-claw at an abandoned steel mill in Japan, firing cannons and smashing each other in a days-long duel. Ca...
Physics boosts artificial intelligence methods
Oct 19, 2017 (SPX)
Despite the central role of physics in quantum computing, until now, no problem of interest for physics researchers has been resolved by quantum computing techn...
Liquid metal brings soft robotics a step closer
Oct 18, 2017 (SPX)
Researchers at the University of Sussex and Swansea University have applied electrical charges to manipulate liquid metal into 2D shapes such as letters and a h...
Self-taught, 'superhuman' AI now even smarter: makers
Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)
Even more startling, the updated version of AlphaGo is entirely self-taught -- a major step towards the rise of machines that achieve superhuman abilities "with...
Samsung's revamped Bixby takes on Amazon Alexa
Oct 18, 2017 (AFP)
The South Korean electronics giant, which is the world's biggest smartphone maker, launched Bixby last year but only for its own flagship Galaxy handsets. The n...
Intel working with Facebook on chips for AI
Oct 17, 2017 (AFP)
The chipmaking giant is partnering with Facebook and other internet titans investing heavily in artificial intelligence to create the first in what will be a fa...
Emma the robot masseuse gets to work in Singapore
Oct 13, 2017 (AFP)
The robot, the brainchild of local startup AiTreat, began work at a clinic in the city-state this week and performs "tui na", a type of massage practised in tra...
Sensitivity to time improves performance at remotely controlling devices
Oct 09, 2017 (SPX)
"There are many situations, from bomb disposal to remote surgeries, in which people want to remotely control devices," says Federico Scholcover, a Ph.D. student...
US spacewalkers repair aging ISS robotic arm
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
The outing by Americans Randy Bresnik and Mark Vande Hei ended at 3 pm (1900 GMT), marking a "very successful day," a NASA spokesman said. The spacewalk lasted ...
Mattel scraps plan for digital assistant for kids
Oct 05, 2017 (AFP)
The device called Aristotle was announced in January during the Consumer Electronics Show as a kid-friendly alternative to digital assistants such as Amazon's A...
DeepMind forms ethics unit for AI; Google unveils $49 mini assistant
Oct 04, 2017 (AFP)
The announcement by the London-based group acquired by Google parent Alphabet is the latest effort in the tech sector to ease concerns that robotics and artific...
Servosila introduces Mobile Robots equipped with Software Defined Radio payloads
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
"Several of our key customers had asked us to enable an Electronic Warfare (EW) or Cognitive Radio applications in our robots", - says a spokesman for the compa...
UBS could slash third of staff amid technology shift: CEO
Oct 03, 2017 (AFP)
"We see a lot of contraction in the number of people in our industry," UBS chief executive Sergio Ermotti said in the interview, acknowledging that a large shar...
Researchers design soft, flexible origami-inspired robot
Oct 03, 2017 (SPX)
Kiju Lee, the Nord Distinguished Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and her lab have moved from paper robots to 3-D-printed models tha...
Robot Spelunkers Go for a Dip
Oct 03, 2017 (JPL)
NASA roboticists are exploring moulins, places where water has punched through thousands of feet of ice to form a waterfall through a glacier.They hope to match...
Smash hit: Ping pong robot takes on Olympian at Tokyo tech fair
Oct 02, 2017 (AFP)
The alien-looking table-tennis star, named FORPHEUS, had a tough opponent, in the shape of Japan's first-ever Olympic singles medal-winner in a man-versus-machi...
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