News tagged with artificial intelligence

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NRL artificial intelligence team win 2 video awards (w/ Video)

Researchers at NRL's Navy Center for Applied Research in Artificial Intelligence, within the laboratory's Information Technology Division (ITD), received two top awards at the 21st International Joint Conference ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 2

The right honourable computer, barrister-at-law

(PhysOrg.com) -- European researchers have created a legal analysis query engine that combines artificial intelligence, game theory and semantics to offer advice, conflict prevention and dispute settlement ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Sep 04, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 4

At Singularity University, tech is seen as savior

(AP) -- Chatter about ensuing plans permeates any graduation, though it's not common for the talk to surround which class projects will receive venture capital funding.

Technology / Other

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 2

An intelligent system avoids forgetting things

A team of researchers from the University of Granada (UGR) has created a system with Artificial Intelligence techniques which notifies elderly people or people with special needs of the forgetting of certain everyday tasks. ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Inventor Demonstrates Humanoid Robot's Latest AI Abilities (w/ Video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- In August 2007, Le Trung invented Aiko, a Yumecom, or "Dream Computer Robot." Although it took only a month and a half to build Aiko's exterior, the artificial intelligence software has been ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (36) | comments 26 weblog

'Rich interaction' may make computers a partner, not a product

In the movie "2010," while trying to salvage the mission to Jupiter, the Hal 9000 computer noted, "I enjoy working with human beings, and have stimulating relationships with them."

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Aug 19, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 2

Want responsible robotics? Start with responsible humans

(PhysOrg.com) -- When the legendary science fiction writer Isaac Asimov penned the "Three Laws of Responsible Robotics," he forever changed the way humans think about artificial intelligence, and inspired generations of engineers ...

Technology / Other

created Jul 29, 2009 | popularity 3.5 / 5 (8) | comments 10

Chicago team uses artificial intelligence to diagnose metastatic cancer

When doctors are managing care for women with breast cancer, the information available to them profoundly influences the type of care they recommend. Knowing whether a woman's cancer has metastasized, for instance, directly ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

NASA Research to Help Aircraft Avoid Ocean Storms, Turbulence

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA is funding the development of a prototype system to provide aircraft with updates about severe storms and turbulence as they fly across remote ocean regions.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jul 07, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers unveil whiskered robot rat

A team of scientists have developed an innovative robot rat which can seek out and identify objects using its whiskers. The SCRATCHbot robot will be demonstrated this week at an international workshop looking ...

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 2 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Biology knows best -- human-like vision lets robots navigate naturally

(PhysOrg.com) -- A robotic vision system that mimics key visual functions of the human brain promises to let robots manoeuvre quickly and safely through cluttered environments, and to help guide the visually impaired.

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 30, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

Autonomous robot detects shrapnel

Bioengineers at Duke University have developed a laboratory robot that can successfully locate tiny pieces of metal within flesh and guide a needle to its exact location -- all without the need for human assistance.

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 18, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The future of robots is rat-shaped

Agnes Guillot dreams of one day seeing a giant 50-centimetre (20-inch) -long white rat called Psikharpax scuttling fearlessly around her lab.

Electronics / Robotics

created Jun 07, 2009 | popularity 3.8 / 5 (6) | comments 3

Microsoft, Sony take aim at Nintendo Wii at E3

(AP) -- This year's Electronic Entertainment Expo has been quite the moving experience.

Electronics / Consumer & Gadgets

created Jun 03, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'Tetris' still a videogame star at age 25

It was spring in what was then the Soviet Union when a mathematician in Moscow with a penchant for puzzles created a "Tetris" computer game still going strong 25 years later.

Technology / Software

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1