#433731 From cyborgs to sex robots, U of M ...

Posted on October 9, 2018 by Android

Francis Shen spends a lot of time thinking about transhuman cyborgs, brain-wave lie detectors, sex robots and terrorists hacking into devices implanted in our heads.[Read more…]

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#433728 AI Is Kicking Space Exploration into ...

Posted on October 7, 2018 by Android

Artificial intelligence in space exploration is gathering momentum. Over the coming years, new missions look likely to be turbo-charged by AI as we voyage to comets, moons, and planets and explore the possibilities of mining asteroids.
“AI is already a game-changer that has made scientific research and exploration much more efficient. We are not just talking about a doubling but about a multiple of ten,” Leopold Summerer, Head of the Advanced Concepts and Studies Office at ESA, said in an […] Continue Reading…

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#433725 This Week’s Awesome Stories From ...

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Android

ROBOTICS
The Demise of Rethink Robotics Shows How Hard It Is to Make Machines Truly SmartWill Knight | MIT Technology Review“There’s growing interest in using recent advances in AI to make industrial robots a lot smarter and more useful. …But look carefully and you’ll see that these technologies are at a very early stage, and that deploying them commercially could prove extremely challenging. The demise of Rethink doesn’t mean industrial robotics isn’t flourishing, or that AI-driven advances won’t come about. […] Continue Reading…

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#433723 Increasingly human-like robots spark ...

Posted on October 6, 2018 by Android

Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid.[Read more…]

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#433524 Japanese “Singing” Robot

Posted on October 5, 2018 by Android

The Japanese HRP-4C Humanoid Robot can “sing” – and not too shabby either. 🙂

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