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• A helping hand, or arm

  The Kuka HA 60-3 Automatic Scale Arm knows how to avoid hitting its head on the ceiling. It also knows where the ground is. It even knows its own dimensions. But the arm is not impressive because of what it knows, but rather because of what it can learn Read More...
  Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 12:57 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, architecture, Yale

• Professors teach robot to 'play ball'

  Catchbot can intercept ground balls with a .750 fielding percentage. That’s not bad…for a little leaguer. It is still far below what is expected of even an average major league infielder. But Catchbot doesn’t have an eye, a glove, or Read More...
  Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 6:17 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, sports

• Teaching Robots New Tricks

  Programming instructions for robots can be a time-consuming, labor-intensive task. Many roboticists believe that training robots by demonstrating new skills could speed up the process and enable the machines to perform more difficult tasks. Now researchers Read More...
  Posted Sunday, September 28, 2008 6:00 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, AI, helicopters

• Minds of their own

  IN ONE of William Gibson’s early mind-bending stories, the protagonist suddenly needs to fly a jump jet. In the cockpit, he finds his employer has thoughtfully stashed a biochip containing all the necessary piloting skills for him to plug into his Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, September 10, 2008 8:17 PM by clementlawyer / 1 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, Futurism, cybernetics

• Robot builders seek a little help from sci-fi

  "It's surprising how often people make nervous jokes about robots taking over the world. I don't want to make too much of that, but I think there's something there." So says one roboticist who thinks finding out exactly how fictional Read More...
  Posted Friday, September 05, 2008 3:14 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI

• Robots and Humans: Intel say equal by 2050

  INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, Aug. 21, 2008 – Intel Corporation’s chief technology officer took a fascinating look at how technology will bring man and machine much closer together by 2050 . Justin Rattner, during his keynote today Read More...
  Posted Wednesday, August 27, 2008 12:43 PM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, Artificial intelligence, Intel, technological singularity

• Technology That Outthinks Us: A Partner or a Master?

  In Vernor Vinge’s version of Southern California in 2025, there is a school named Fairmont High with the motto, “Trying hard not to become obsolete.” It may not sound inspiring, but to the many fans of Dr. Vinge, this is a most ambitious Read More...
  Posted Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:59 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, Singularity, technological singularity, vernor vinge

• Human remote control may spell end for teachers

  Teachers and textbooks beware -- your future could be under threat from a quickly developing and very smart technology. At the center of this technology is a man who recently turned his face into a remote control - Ph.D. student Jacob Whitehill, of the Read More...
  Posted Thursday, August 14, 2008 8:18 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Robotics/AI, Artificial intelligence, Education, teachers, AI

• Emotional Robots in the spotlight

  Feelix Growing is developing software empowering robots that can learn when a person is sad, happy or angry. The learning part is achieved through the use of artificial neural networks, which are well suited to the varied and changing inputs that ‘perceptive’ Read More...
  Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 3:47 AM by clementlawyer / 0 Comments

  Tags: Artificial intelligence, Emoticons, Robotics/AI

• 7th graders to clean ocean with nanotechnology

  The winners of this year’s Lego engineering contest were inspired by nanotechnology concepts to design a robot to clean plastic from the ocean: For the competition, the students had to prepare a presentation on this year’s theme — nanotechnology, Read more
  Posted Thursday, April 26, 2007 7:19 PM from Nanodot: Nanotechnology News and Discussion / 0 Comments

  Tags: Environment, Health, and Safety, Public participation, Public Involvement, NanoEducation, Robotics/AI, Nanotechnology, Biosphere, Nanotech, Nano, Foresight Kudos