Artificial intelligence is going to completely change your life
Just as electricity transformed the way industries functioned in the past century, artificial intelligence — the science of programming cognitive abilities into machines — has the power to...
View Article$10 million XPRIZE Aims for Robot Avatars That Let You See, Hear, and Feel by...
Ever wished you could be in two places at the same time? The XPRIZE Foundation wants to make that a reality with a $10 million competition to build robot avatars that can be controlled from at least...
View ArticleIBM Highlights 5 Technologies It Hopes To Pioneer In 5 Years
We tend to think of innovation as being about ideas. A lone genius working in a secret lab somewhere screams "Eureka!" and the world is instantly changed. But that's not how the real world works. In...
View ArticleWith a spacecraft in trouble and the White House watching, SpaceX had to deliver
Within minutes of liftoff, it was clear the Dragon spacecraft was in trouble. Inside mission control on the morning of March 1, 2013, the SpaceX team was desperately trying to figure out what went...
View ArticleThis WALK-MAN robot can go places too dangerous for humans
Humanoid robots may not be ready to take your job. But that doesn’t mean they can’t be useful. Researchers at the Italian Institute of Technology built a robot they called WALK-MAN that they say is...
View ArticleGoogle's quantum computing breakthrough: Our new chip might soon outperform...
Google's Quantum AI Lab has shown off a new 72-qubit quantum processor called 'Bristlecone', which it says could soon achieve 'quantum supremacy' by outperforming a classical supercomputer on some...
View ArticleIt's Official: Elon Musk Will Send Humans to Mars in 2024
On the last day of the International Astronautical Congress in Adelaide, Australia, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took the stage to talk about his company’s BFR project. Moreover, sharing details on how the...
View ArticleDeath-Bringing 'Brain Tsunamis' Have Been Observed in Humans For The First Time
For the first time, researchers have been able to study the moment brain death becomes irreversible in the human body, observing the phenomenon in several Do Not Resuscitate patients as they died in...
View ArticleThis New Lightweight Humanoid Robot Can Put Out Fires And Pick Up Debris
Researchers at IIT-Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Genova, Italy tested a new robotic avatar they say could be used for emergency response teams in the future. The robotic avatar, called the...
View ArticleToyota Unveils Third Generation Humanoid Robot T-HR3
Toyota City, Japan, November 21, 2017―Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) today revealed T-HR3, the company's third generation humanoid robot. Toyota's latest robotics platform, designed and developed by...
View ArticleBOSTON DYNAMICS' ATLAS ROBOT DOES BACKFLIPS NOW AND IT'S FULL-TILT INSANE
ATLAS, THE HULKING humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics, now does backflips. I’ll repeat that. It’s a hulking humanoid that does backflips. Check out the video below, because it shows a hulking humanoid...
View ArticleSpeedy collision detector could make robots better human assistants
Electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego have developed a faster collision detection algorithm that uses machine learning to help robots avoid moving objects and weave through...
View ArticleMIT’s remote control robot system puts VR to work
MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has come up with a use for virtual reality headsets that goes beyond firing them up, checking out a new game, muttering “cool” briefly...
View ArticleRobots could destabilise world through war and unemployment, says UN
United Nations opens new centre in Netherlands to monitor artificial intelligence and predict possible threats The UN has warned that robots could destabilise the world ahead of the opening of a...
View ArticleAre Computers Already Smarter Than Humans?
Who’s smarter — you, or the computer or mobile device on which you’re reading this article? The answer is increasingly complex, and depends on definitions in flux. Computers are certainly more adept at...
View ArticleDeus ex machina: former Google engineer is developing an AI god
Way of the Future, a religious group founded by Anthony Levandowski, wants to create a deity based on artificial intelligence for the betterment of society Intranet service? Check. Autonomous...
View ArticleThis robotic glove will give you bionic hands
A startup called Nuada has developed a soft, robotic glove that gives people with hand pain or weakness a strong grip. According to co-founders Filipe Quinaz and Vitor Crespo, the glove contains a...
View ArticleAmbitious neuroscience project to probe how the brain makes decisions
World-leading neuroscientists have launched an ambitious project to answer one of the greatest mysteries of all time: how the brain decides what to do. The international effort will draw on expertise...
View ArticleHow to draw electricity from the bloodstream
Men build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity. To produce hydropower on a much smaller scale, Chinese scientists have now developed a lightweight power...
View ArticleThis vacuum-activated modular robot is equally nasty and neat
Soft robots are a major area of research right now, but the general paradigm seems to be that you pump something (a muscle or tube) full of something else (air, fluid) causing it to change its shape....
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