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Learn a Language While You Text
An MIT graduate student's "WaitChatter" app teaches vocabulary during moments in between text and instant-message replies.
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What a Dinosaur's Mating Scream Sounds Like
Two years ago, Sean Murray, a video-game developer from the town of Guildford, outside London, announced an ambitious game that he had been working on in secrecy...
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Robot Gives Helping Hand to Deaf Education Teachers
Lecturers at The University of Manchester are using the Swivl robot in school classrooms to help assess placement training for students in its deaf education course...
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'Rise of the Robots' and 'Shadow Work'
In the late 20th century, while the blue-collar working class gave way to the forces of globalization and automation, the educated elite looked on with benign condescension...
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NASA Selects Advanced Space Technology Concepts for Further Study
NASA has selected 15 proposals for study under Phase I of the NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC), a program that aims to turn science fiction into science...
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First Stop Robot Road Race, Next Stop NASA
More than 200 runners and 25 robots competing in a human 5-kilometer run and robot 100-meter dash on April 12 in West Cambridge, Mass.
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Does Artificial Intelligence Pose a Threat?
After decades as a sci-fi staple, artificial intelligence has leapt into the mainstream.
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Finally, Neural Networks That Actually Work
As a senior at the University of Minnesota, Jeff Dean built an artificial brain. Kinda.
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How Self-Driving Tractor-Trailers May Reinvent What It Means to Be a Truck Driver
Daimler Trucks North America showed off a self-driving truck in a glitzy ceremony Tuesday at the Hoover Dam, offering a reminder of the coming era of autonomous...
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At the Heart of Facebook's Artificial Intelligence, Human Emotions
Facebook Inc. doesn't yet have an intelligent assistant, like the iPhone's Siri.
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Universities Collaborate on Unmanned Aerial Systems Studies
Wichita State University and Kansas State University are working together with the Federal Aviation Administration to minimize the risk associated with operating...
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The Robotics Inventors Who Are Trying to Take the 'Hard' Out of Hardware
In a converted pipe organ factory in the city’s Mission District, Saul Griffith works on products that are smarter, cheaper and, above all, squiggly.
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Happy Birthday to Moore's Law
Few revolutions can be said to have lasted for half a century, or to have wrought disruptive change at a predictable pace.
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UV Light Robot to Clean Hospital Rooms Could Help Stop Spread of 'Superbugs'
Researchers are studying the effectiveness of a germ-zapping robot to clean hospital rooms, which could prevent the spread of "superbugs" — saving countless dollars...
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IBM Tests Mobile Computing Pioneer's Controversial Brain Algorithms
For more than a decade Jeff Hawkins, founder of mobile computing company Palm, has dedicated his time and fortune to a theory meant to explain the workings of the...
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Will This One-Armed Robot Put You Out of a Job?
Sawyer the one-armed robot can do many things.
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Graphics in Reverse
MIT researchers will demonstrate at an upcoming conference that probabilistic programming can be competitive with conventional programs created with thousands of...
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Planes Without Pilots
Mounting evidence that the co-pilot crashed a Germanwings plane into a French mountain has prompted a global debate about how to better screen crewmembers for mental...
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Autonomous Robots Race in MIT Tunnels
Fully autonomous 1:10-scale model cars navigating through MIT's underground tunnels in a robot race this past January, with the winning team's vehicle running at...
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Exoskeleton Improves Efficiency of Human Walking
An unpowered exoskeleton developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon and North Carolina State helps individuals walk using less energy.
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Google Patented Building Robots with Personalities
Whether or not we are headed toward a robot revolution, Google wants us to get comfortable with the next generation of robots.12345678910>>