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Researchers create the first artificial neural network out of DNA

Artificial intelligence has been the inspiration for countless books and movies, as well as the aspiration of countless scientists and engineers. Researchers at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Researchers give robot ability to learn (w/ Video)

Researchers with the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology have created a robot that is capable of applying learned concepts to perform new tasks. Using a type of self-replicating neural technology ...

Electronics / Robotics

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Computer scientists form mathematical formulation of the brain's neural networks

As computer scientists this year celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the mathematical genius Alan Turing, who set out the basis for digital computing in the 1930s to anticipate the electronic age, they still quest ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Japanese scientist unveils 'thinking' robot

Robots that learn from experience and can solve novel problems -- just like humans -- sound like science fiction.

Electronics / Robotics

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Ping-pong robots debut in China (w/ video)

(PhysOrg.com) -- Last week some oohs and ahhs were in order as two ping-pong playing robots made their debut at Zhejiang University in China. The two robots played against each other and with humans. True, ...

Electronics / Robotics

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Pot shot: Scientists find cannabis trigger for forgetfulness

Researchers on Sunday said they had pinpointed the biochemical pathway by which cannabis causes memory loss in mice.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Ego City: Cities organized like human brains

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cities are organized like brains, and the evolution of cities mirrors the evolution of human and animal brains, according to a new study by researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 03, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Bio-inspired computer networks self-organise and learn

(PhysOrg.com) -- Powerful computers made up of physically separate modules, self-organising networks, and computing inspired by biological systems are three hot research topics coming together in one European ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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Microchip technology rapidly identifies compounds for regrowing nerves in live animals

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have long sought the ability to regenerate nerve cells, or neurons, which could offer a new way to treat spinal-cord damage as well as neurological diseases such as Alzheimer's ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

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Web-crawling the brain

The brain is a black box. A complex circuitry of neurons fires information through channels, much like the inner workings of a computer chip. But while computer processors are regimented with the deft economy of an assembly ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Spacesuits with artificial intelligence may look for life on Mars

(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronauts may in future be wearing spacesuits equipped with artificial intelligence (AI) and digital eyes, turning them into what the researchers call cyborg astrobiologists.

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

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The Link Between Birdsong And Human Language

Scientists studying how Bengalese finches use sets of syllables to communicate are a step closer to understanding how humans develop and use vocabulary. After studying the neural networks in finch brains, ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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New model suggests how the brain might stay in balance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists have theorized for decades about how neural networks might be able to accomplish the incredibly complex calculations the human brain performs all the time. But simply stabilizing ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

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I want to see what you see: Babies treat 'social robots' as sentient beings

Babies are curious about nearly everything, and they're especially interested in what their adult companions are doing. Touch your tummy, they'll touch their own tummies. Wave your hands in the air, they'll ...

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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Neural network learns to identify group sizes without knowledge of numbers

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cognitive sciences research duo out of Università di Padova, in Italy, have succeeded in building an artificial intelligence network that has through repetition, learned to identify relative group ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

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