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View ArticleIntelligent machines: Call for a ban on robots designed as sex toys
A campaign has been launched calling for a ban on the development of robots that can be used for sex. Such a use of the technology is unnecessary and undesirable, said campaign leader Dr Kathleen...
View ArticleA Japanese Robot Is Learning the American Way
Developed for cute-centric Japan, a robot called Pepper is getting a personality adjustment for its launch in the United States. In certain Japanese stores, Pepper the robot greets customers with a...
View ArticleThis robot will beat you in rock-paper-scissors every single time
Rock-paper-scissors is a simple game whose outcome depends largely on luck and a little bit on psyching out your partner. But when played with the robot from the Ishikawa Watanabe Laboratory in Tokyo,...
View ArticleRepairing the brain: Two genes unlock potential for treatment of schizophrenia
Research led by scientists from Duke-NUS Graduate Medical School Singapore (Duke-NUS) has linked the abnormal behaviour of two genes (BDNF and DTNBP1) to the underlying cause of schizophrenia. These...
View Article3-D printed guide helps regrow complex nerves after injury
A national team of researchers has developed a first-of-its-kind, 3D-printed guide that helps regrow both the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves after injury. The groundbreaking research has...
View ArticleDrones Autonomously Build a Bridge, So the Robot Army Never Has to Stop
In the future war against the machines, humans might have gained a brief respite by powering through the flowing rivers where electronic killer robots cannot tread. These bridge-building quadrotors...
View Article4-D technology allows self-folding of complex objects
Using components made from smart shape-memory materials with slightly different responses to heat, researchers have demonstrated a four-dimensional printing technology that allowed creation of complex...
View ArticleScientists use brainwaves to help disabled gain mobility
South Korean researchers have developed a machine that could read the minds of the disabled and transform their lives. When used in combination with an exoskeleton that enables movement, the brainwave...
View Article'Star Trek' virtual tour will recreate every deck of the Enterprise
You've probably seen a few attempts at recreating worlds in game engines, but never at this level of detail. Artist Jason B is working on the Enterprise-D Construction Project, an Unreal Engine-based...
View ArticleScientists shatter distance record for teleporting quantum data
Quantum teleportation, the act of reconstructing quantum data somewhere else, is impressive just by itself. However, scientists at the US' National Institute of Standards and Technology have managed to...
View ArticleStudy links two human brains for question-and-answer experiment
Imagine a question-and-answer game played by two people who are not in the same place and not talking to each other. Round after round, one player asks a series of questions and accurately guesses the...
View ArticleHow the brain encodes time and place
When you remember a particular experience, that memory has three critical elements — what, when, and where. MIT neuroscientists have now identified a brain circuit that processes the “when” and “where”...
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View ArticleHOW PHYSICISTS QUANTUM TELEPORTED INFORMATION OVER 62 MILES
Teleportation isn’t real, at least not as it’s depicted in fiction. No one has ever made a material object -- be it Harry Potter or Captain Kirk -- physically disappear from one location and reappear...
View ArticleIBM Wants Watson to Teach Robots Some Social Skills
Because language is only part of human communication, IBM is using machine learning to teach robots social skills like gestures, eye movements, and voice intonations. IBM is using some of the...
View ArticleMan With A 'Complete Spinal Cord Injury' Learns To Walk Again Using Just His...
It’s a technology that sounds lifted from the latest Marvel movie — a “Brain-Computer Interface Functional Electrical Stimulation (BCI-FES) System” that enables its paralyzed users to walk again....
View ArticleHow Your Brain Is Wired Reveals the Real You
The brain’s wiring patterns can shed light on a person’s positive and negative traits, researchers report in Nature Neuroscience. The finding, published on September 28, is the first from the Human...
View ArticlePassenger-carrying robot turns VR into an exhilarating ride
A parallel cable robot doesn't sound very exciting, and for the most part, they're not really what springs to mind when people think about robotics. They are robotic systems that consist of a platform...
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