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Google Search Gets Smarter With Knowledge Graph

This week Google is rolling out a new search tool: the Knowledge Graph. Breaking with the old strategy of keywords [...]

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Automation Comes To The Coffeehouse With Robotic Baristas

Say goodbye to lattes with funky tastes or attitude from coffeehouse baristas. At the University of Texas, a startup called [...]

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Better, Faster, and Cheaper – These Robots Are Invading Car Manufacturing Plants

Does anyone doubt that it really is just a matter of time before human assembly line workers are a thing [...]

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Automated Grading Software In Development To Score Essays As Accurately As Humans

April 30 marks the deadline for a contest challenging software developers to create an automated scorer of student essays, otherwise [...]

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EMIEW2, The New And Improved Office Robot From Hitachi

Chasing down staplers and printer cartridges hurting your productivity at the office? Fret not. Hitachi has just come out with [...]

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Robots Will Drive, Bust Through A Wall, And Make Repairs In DARPA’s New Robotics Challenge

Five years after the DARPA Grand Challenge robotic cars are already hitting the roads and states are preparing for their [...]

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On-Demand Robots From A 3D Printer

We’ve seen 3D printers churn out toys, bone models, chocolate, even human tissue. Now scientists at MIT want to print [...]

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New Video Of Sand Flea Robot Leaping (Onto) Tall Buildings 30ft High

It doesn’t look like much, kind of a simple RC car. That is, until it jumps. Boston Dynamics just released [...]

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Dr. Fill, The Crossword Playing Computer Competes At American Crossword Puzzle Tournament

Inspired by Watson’s success on Jeopardy!, AI specialist Matthew Ginsberg wanted to see if computers could out-duel humans in another [...]

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Football’s Not A Rough Sport Until A Bunch Of Japanese Robots Play It

When my brother and I were young we used to get on opposite sides of the kitchen and slam our [...]

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Love That New Single? Mathematical Equation Predicts Music’s Hits And Flops

Technology is continually getting better at predicting our behavior, and signaling to us that perhaps we’re not as unpredictable and [...]

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Meet The Author Of “Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK”

Growth is a good thing, right? It’s the buzzword on seemingly every politician’s lips, the answer to our economic woes. [...]

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Boston Dynamics Takes Alpha Dog Military Robot Out For Its First Walk

First there were porters, then beasts of burden, then mechanized vehicles. And now we’re back to beasts of burden – [...]

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Computer Algorithm Used To Make Movie For Sundance Film Festival

Indie movie makers can be a strange bunch, pushing the envelope of their craft and often losing us along the [...]

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A Look At BMW’s Semi-Autonomous Driving Car

While robotic cars have a ways to go yet before rolling (themselves) out onto showroom floors, BMW is incorporating driver [...]

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Sebastian Thrun Aims to Revolutionize University Education With Udacity

This past August fellow Singularity Hub writer Aaron Saenz wrote about Udacity, the online university created by Stanford artificial intelligence [...]

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Rollin’ Justin Robot Gets Agile, Learns How To Throw A Ball (video)

Where was Agile Justin last year when we needed him to throw out the first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies [...]

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Google’s AI Challenge: Who Can Build The Smartest Ant Colony

Want to prove to Google that you’ve got some serious programming chops? Then you better prepare yourself for war. Ant [...]

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Nao Robots Can Feed Themselves By Plugging Into Their NEST

Nao, the miniature humanoid robot favorite, has added yet another capability to its growing list of awesomeness. It hasn’t gotten [...]

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Robot: I Now Have Common Sense. Engineer: Great, Go Fetch Me a Sandwich!

Willow Garage’s gifted PR2 robot just got even smarter. Developers from the University of Tokyo and the Technical University of [...]

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Supercomputer Predicts Revolution

A new type of software has been shown to predict revolutions by mining news reports around the world. Retrospectively mining [...]

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From Jeopardy! to Insurance – IBM’s Watson AI Hired by WellPoint For Medical Expertise

Ever feel like the people reviewing your claims at the insurance company are a bunch of faceless, mindless drones? Well [...]

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AI Journalist Writes Sports and Now Everything Else. StatSheet Raises $4M, Changes Name and Focus

I have met my replacement and it is a robot. A robot obsessed with sports. AI journalism pioneer StatSheet gained [...]

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AI vs. AI – What Happens When You Make a Chatty Computer Talk To Itself? Cornell Finds Out

I can think of few things as annoying as being forced into a conversation with an idiot. But when that [...]

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Pre-Cog Is Real – New Software Stops Crime Before It Happens

The police officers arrived at the parking garage in downtown Santa Cruz and spotted two women behaving suspiciously. No crime [...]

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