#429161 Meet Pepper, the friendly mall bot

Pepper is a chatty 4-foot humanoid robot by SoftBank Robotics that has started to appear in shopping malls. It can talk, gesture and move on wheels. Pepper’s so-called “emotion engine” allows it to engage people in a friendly way.

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#429160 How robots will change the workforce

Thirty of the world's top scientists are scheduled to meet at the University of California at San Diego in February to discuss the toughest challenges in robotics and automation, including how to make driverless cars safe for a mass audience.[Read more…]

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#428993 Mimicking human facial expression ...

Hanson Robotics’ “Han” is a humanoid robot capable of recognizing someone in front of it, including their voice, and then mimicking that human’s facial expressions while interacting and talking. Wow!

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#429116 Exponential Growth Will Transform ...

As we close out 2016, if you’ll allow me, I’d like to take a risk and venture into a topic I’m personally compelled to think about… a topic that will seem far out to most readers.
Today’s extraordinary rate of exponential growth may do much more than just disrupt industries. It may actually give birth to a new species, reinventing humanity over the next 30 years.
I believe we’re rapidly heading towards a human-scale transformation, the next evolutionary step into what […] Continue Reading…

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#429115 Why the Latest AI Wave Will Gain ...

It can read lips and create new food recipes. It can win at chess, Jeopardy and the game Go. Every major technology company appears to be integrating it into how they organize and operate their business. And it seems like just about every new app in existence claims its software uses some sort of machine learning to make life even better.
Artificial intelligence is splashed across headlines like never before. The AI revolution is here, and the most obvious question […] Continue Reading…

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