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A True War Veteran, The AR100B Drone Chopper Has Logged More Than 1,200 Missions In Afghanistan

At less than a kilogram total weight, a max payload of 200 grams, and just one meter in diameter the [...]

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Google’s Driverless Car Causes Accident – Due To Human Error

As if to spite me just days after I was gushing about Google’s driverless Toyota Prius, they go and rear-end [...]

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Lawyers Object As Computer Program Does Job Better

First doctors, now lawyers. I can hear them now: “I didn’t go through all those years of school just to [...]

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Aldebaran, Makers of Nao Robot, Gets $15 Million From Intel and Others (video)

I love the Nao robot. It seems like every time we turn around it’s learning how to do something new. [...]

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This Humanoid Robot’s Comin’ At You Like A Spider Monkey! (video)

If you’re going to get past the Christiano Ronaldos of the world, you’re going to have to run fast. In [...]

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Best Toy On The Block: Nao Humanoid Robot Plays Card Games With Kids

The Nao Developer Program is making the robot more human-like every day. Just last month Nao robot developer Carl Clement [...]

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An Inside Look Into The Amazon.com Warehouses (video)

What do you do when the CEO wants you to build a delivery system for pretty much anything that will [...]

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Robot To Throw Out First Pitch Today At Phillies Game

On May 29, 2010, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Halladay threw a perfect game. It was only the twentieth time ever [...]

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Kurzweil Is Confident Machines Will Pass Turing Test by 2029 (video)

It continues to be a good Spring for Ray Kurzweil. Not only has the media been rather kind to him [...]

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The Most Human Human, Discusses Turing Test on Daily Show

How human are you? It’s a question that strikes me as both absurd and deeply important. Brian Christian probably would [...]

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It’s Showtime: IBM’s Watson To Make History On Jeopardy!

Today, February 14, 2011, IBM’s Watson computer system is slated to take on the world’s best humans in a televised [...]

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Ford To Make Roads Safer By Networking Cars Together Wirelessly (Video)

With auto technology getting more and more advanced every day, we are often looking to our cars to do the [...]

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Will Vicarious Systems’ Silicon Valley Pedigree Help it Build AI?

Facebook, Space X, Numenta…Vicarious? In Silicon Valley the pedigree for a startup can make or break it. Vicarious Systems is [...]

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AI Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team

It’s a good day for sports fans, but a weird one for sports writers. North Carolina-based startup Statsheet has launched [...]

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Berkeley Bionic’s eLEGS Allow Paraplegics To Walk Again (video)

A whole new generation of paraplegics may be able to stand up and walk away from their wheelchairs. Exoskeleton developers [...]

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Is Gmail’s Priority Inbox A New Kind of AI Personal Assistant?

Google announced Monday that it would be rolling out a new email sorting feature for its 170+ million Gmail users. [...]

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Google Puts Artificial Intelligence into the Cloud With New API

Ok Google I have an addendum to your unofficial motto: “Don’t Be Evil…And Don’t Create Skynet”. The Silicon Valley giant [...]

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An AI Physician On Every Smartphone? An Xprize Challenge

One of the exciting ideas being tossed around recently over at the Xprize Foundation is the creation of an Artificial [...]

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Twitter About To Roll Out Translation Of Tweets To Other Languages?

Twitter appears to be testing out a new feature that will allow you to automatically translate tweets into other languages. [...]

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Stanford’s Robot Car Tries for Peak Performance

Sometime this year, Stanford plans on taking their driverless Audi TTS and using it to climb the 12.4 miles up [...]

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Bionic Limbs With Artificial Intelligence

They won’t give you superhuman strength, and they definitely don’t cost six million dollars, but the artificial limbs from Ossur [...]

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Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man

Prominent New York Times reporter John Markoff just came out with a story titled “Scientists Worry Machines May Outsmart Man” [...]

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Computer Learns Sign Language – Next Stop World Domination

Why does it have to take so long for the computers to rise up and kill us? The suspense is [...]

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War 2.0 – Rise of the Robots

The face of war is changing, and it may no longer be a human one. Developing new technology has always [...]

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Create an AI on Your Computer

If many hands make light work, then maybe many computers can make an artificial brain. That’s the basic reasoning behind [...]

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