Category: AI
Boston Dynamics Takes Alpha Dog Military Robot Out For Its First Walk
Written by: Peter Murray 14 hours ago
First there were porters, then beasts of burden, then mechanized vehicles. And now we’re back to beasts of burden – [...]
Computer Algorithm Used To Make Movie For Sundance Film Festival
Written by: Peter Murray 6 days ago
Indie movie makers can be a strange bunch, pushing the envelope of their craft and often losing us along the [...]
A Look At BMW’s Semi-Autonomous Driving Car
Written by: Peter Murray 8 days ago
While robotic cars have a ways to go yet before rolling (themselves) out onto showroom floors, BMW is incorporating driver [...]
Sebastian Thrun Aims to Revolutionize University Education With Udacity
Written by: Peter Murray 13 days ago
This past August fellow Singularity Hub writer Aaron Saenz wrote about Udacity, the online university created by Stanford artificial intelligence [...]
iRobot CEO Discusses Their New Robot AVA
Written by: Peter Murray 15 days ago
We found this video from CNNMoney, about AVA, iRobot’s latest personal assistance robot. We’ve covered AVA before, how it’s basically [...]
Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 16 days ago
Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies [...]
Call of Duty Video Game Reaches $1 Billion In Sales In 16 days, Faster Than Cameron’s Avatar
Written by: David Hill 22 days ago
Modern Warfare 3 (MW3), the eighth in the Call of Duty series, made an astonishing $400 million in sales in [...]
Senstore Wants To Make A Tricorder That Monitors The Entire Body
Written by: Peter Murray 29 days ago
What a great place that Singularity University is. Smart, motivated people coming together to make the world a better place [...]
Is 2012 The Year That Robot Applications Take Root?
Written by: Frank Tobe 36 days ago
In July of 2008, the app store concept was launched by Apple and it has dramatically changed the mobile industry. [...]
Want Some Time on Research Telescopes? New Social Network Will Put Them In Your Hands
Written by: Aaron Saenz 39 days ago
The social network is soon to be filled with stars…not celebrities, but actual celestial bodies. The GLObal Robotic telescopes Intelligent [...]
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This Next Generation Vending Machine Has A Touchscreen And A 65-Inch HD Display (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 44 days ago
We all know that robots are getting smarter, but their food-dispensing cousins are getting pretty bright in their own right. [...]
Petman – Finally A Robot That Looks Like Terminator (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 50 days ago
Look out cute and cuddly Nao. Get out of the way ever-attentive Asimo, a new robot’s on the march and [...]
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The NAO Humanoid Robot Gets Slimmer And Smarter With NAO Next Gen (video)
Written by: Peter Murray 54 days ago
The next generation of our favorite two-foot, programmable, French robot, NAO, has just been released by Aldebaran Robotics. NAO Next [...]
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Hmmm.... *looks at Watson* *imagines 1000^2 times more powerful computer* *imagines Watson becomes as good as other things as he is with natural language* effectively this date gives computers after the [...]
turtles_allthewaydown
Seems quite possible. But will it be AI? Or will it be a well-programmed machine that understands native English? Still impressive, but there's a [...]
turtles_allthewaydown
How does the first question mostly made of 0's? There are clearly more 1's (especially if one distinguishes between o and 0)