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Crowd workers help robot keep conversation fresh
Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)
People can find a hundred ways to say the same thing, which poses a challenge to robots that are expected to keep up their end of conversations. A Disney Resear...
Artificial-intelligence system surfs web to improve its performance
Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)
Of the vast wealth of information unlocked by the Internet, most is plain text. The data necessary to answer myriad questions - about, say, the correlations bet...
Scientists come up with light-driven motors to power nanorobots of the future
Nov 14, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), Semenov Institute of Chemical Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (ICP RAS), and C...
Chemists develop world's first light-seeking synthetic Nanorobot
Nov 09, 2016 (SPX)
A team of researchers led by Dr Jinyao Tang of the Department of Chemistry, the University of Hong Kong, has developed the world's first light-seeking synthetic...
'Bots' step up for 2016 election news coverage
Nov 05, 2016 (AFP)
If you're reading about the US election, some of that news is likely to come to you from a "bot." Automated systems known as "bots" or "robo-journalism" have be...
Robotic tutors for primary school children
Oct 28, 2016 (SPX)
The use of robotic tutors in primary school classrooms is one step closer according to research recently published in the open access journal Frontiers in Compu...
Robotic cleaning technique could automate neuroscience research
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
For scientists listening in on the faint whispers of brain neurons, a first-ever robotic technique for cleaning the tiny devices that record the signals could f...
Bio-inspired lower-limb 'wearing robotic exoskeleton' for human gait rehab
Oct 27, 2016 (SPX)
Stroke and spinal cord injury patients often require gait rehabilitation to regain the ability to walk or to help strengthen their muscles. Wearable "robot-assi...
US warned against Chinese takeover of German firm: report
Oct 26, 2016 (AFP)
The German government withdrew its approval for a Chinese firm to purchase Aixtron, which makes semiconductor equipment, after the US secret services raised sec...
Scientists simplify model for human behavior in automation
Oct 25, 2016 (SPX)
Human unpredictability is a problem in the increasingly automated systems people use every day. Scientists from Nanjing Institute of Technology's School of Auto...
Germany stalls Chinese takeover of tech firm Aixtron
Oct 24, 2016 (AFP)
The German government on Monday said it had withdrawn approval for a Chinese firm to acquire Aixtron, a supplier to the semiconductor industry, amid growing une...
New mobile robot to support agri-tech experiments in the field
Oct 21, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists at the University of Lincoln, UK, have taken delivery of an advanced new mobile robot to support agri-tech experiments at the University's agricultur...
Computers should be named on patents as inventors, for creativity to flourish
Oct 19, 2016 (SPX)
New research published by the University of Surrey in Boston College Law Review is calling for inventions by computers to be legally granted patents. The resear...
Stephen Hawking opens British artificial intelligence hub
Oct 19, 2016 (AFP)
Professor Stephen Hawking on Wednesday opened a new artificial intelligence research centre at Britain's Cambridge University. The Leverhulme Centre for the Fut...
Soft robots that mimic human muscles
Oct 17, 2016 (SPX)
Robots are usually expected to be rigid, fast and efficient. But researchers at EPFL's Reconfigurable Robotics Lab (RRL) have turned that notion on its head wit...
Anyone can chat with the White House... through a bot
Oct 14, 2016 (AFP)
It's now easy to chat on Facebook Messenger with the White House -- or more accurately through the presidential "bot" released by the Obama administration on Fr...
Robot customs officers debut in South China ports
Oct 13, 2016 (XNA)
Ten intelligent robots have started to work as customs officers at three ports in the cities of Zhuhai and Zhongshan, Southern China's Guangdong province on Sat...
Omnidirectional mobile robot has just 2 moving parts
Oct 12, 2016 (SPX)
More than a decade ago, Ralph Hollis invented the ballbot, an elegantly simple robot whose tall, thin body glides atop a sphere slightly smaller than a bowling ...
Tech giants race for edge in artificial intelligence
Oct 12, 2016 (AFP)
Major technology firms are racing to infuse smartphones and other internet-linked devices with software smarts that help them think like people. The effort is s...
New NIST test bed makes the 'digital thread' accessible
Oct 10, 2016 (SPX)
Researchers at the U.S. Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have launched the Smart Manufacturing Systems (SMS) Test Bed...
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