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Human Memory, Computer Memory, and Memento

Video Interview: http://spectrum.ieee.org/podcast/robotics/artificial-intelligence/human-memory-computer-memory-and-memento Transcript: Hi, this is Steven Cherry for IEEE Spectrum’s “Techwise...

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Academic Journal Features 'Mind Uploading' For The First Time

The Special Issue on Mind Uploading (Vol. 4, issue 1, June 2012) of the International Journal of Machine Consciousness, just released, “constitutes a significant milestone in the history of mind...

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Socially assistive robots provide a break for patients

After a stroke in April left Steve Dimon paralyzed and on life support, he felt trapped inside his own body, unable to move a finger or wiggle his toes on his left side. "A stroke is the cruelest joke...

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CMU's AndyVision Robot Is In Your Store, Doing Your Inventory

Underneath that color-coordinated hoodie is AndyVision, Carnegie Mellon's inventory assistance robot. It's programmed to take over the utter drudgery* of daily retail inventory, helping stores figure...

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Steam Punk Remakes Power Grid with Compressed Air

Danielle Fong was 12 years old when her mother decided she should go to college. Danielle’s teachers didn’t agree. Though an aptitude test put her above 99 percent of students who had already graduated...

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Artificial Cerebellum That Enables Robotic Human-Like Object Handling Developed

ScienceDaily (July 3, 2012) — University of Granada researchers have developed an artificial cerebellum (a biologically-inspired adaptive microcircuit) that controls a robotic arm with human-like...

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HEMET: Summer camp teaches kids to build robots

Many kids go to summer camps and learn how to fish, swim, ride horses and more. Campers at the Western Science Center in Hemet spent a week learning how to build, program and operate robots. Two...

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EMILY: Malibu’s Robotic Lifeguard

Lifeguards in California are integrating a new robotic assistant called EMILY – short for Emergency Integrated Lifesaving Lanyard, into their arsenal of life-saving equipment. Emily is a...

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IIT-Bombay robotics competition to find solutions to daily problems

MUMBAI: The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai might get an automated solution to their problems of filling up potholes from the pan India robotics competition E-Yantra, launched by IIT-Bombay on...

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Snake Robots Could Be Used To Assist Heart Surgery

Instead of completely opening up your rib cage for a heart operation, what would you say about a smaller incision and letting a snake do it? Less pain and less scarring may be the case someday as a...

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A robot with 200 hours of power? DARPA wants one

The U.S. military’s futuristic research arm has launched a program to get more productivity out of its robots in a bid to make them more compatible companions on the battlefield. DARPA’s robots include...

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New technologies spread arrival of robots into our lives

SAN FRANCISCO – Notre Dame came back from an early deficit and took the lead overOhio Northern University on a pass. Its defense stiffened in the second half, and it stymied ONU, 26-7. But these...

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Man and robot linked by brain scanner

Robot avatars have got a step closer to being the real world doubles of those who are paralysed or have locked-in-syndrome. Scientists have made a robot move on a human's behalf by monitoring thoughts...

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Let’s Make Robots From Everything—Even Mexican Jumping Beans

If mechanical engineer David Hu ruled the world, it would be crawling with robots based on mosquitoes, snakes, and Mexican jumping beans. Hu’s lab studies animal locomotion, but the research goes...

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'Most realistic' robot legs developed

US experts have developed what they say are the most biologically-accurate robotic legs yet. Writing in the Journal of Neural Engineering, they said the work could help understanding of how babies...

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New Robot builds solar power plants

Building open area solar parks is mostly manual work. Identical processes are repeated hundreds of thousands of times, so PV-Kraftwerker have been looking into automation options for some time. At the...

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Robot eye moves like the real thing

Robotics engineers have replicated the muscle motion of the human eye to control camera systems more effectively. The new control system is based on a piezoelectric cellularactuator that allows a robot...

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DRDO in the process of developing robotic soldiers

COIMBATORE: DRDO is in the process of developing robotic soldiers, which would take a final shape soon, a top official said here on Thursday.  These soldiers are capable of sensing and clearing mines,...

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Flying without pilots: Britain's robot plane

It is the ultimate flying machine: a robot plane which can take off, land, and even avoid bad weather without human intervention. But far from being a scientific dream, one is currently flying in the...

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Future robots to work "in coordination with people" as new 8ft robot is...

Mahoro is a new, 8 foot robot in Japan that currently handles 'dangerous' lab work. The robot is able to complete many tasks, which takes years of training for most people, much quicker and more...

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