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NAO Robots Programmed to Collaborate: Next Up, Forming a Giant Super NAO Robot
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If robots and humans are to work together, we need to destroy all copies of The Matrix, The Terminator… and other media portraying robotic uprising. That’s the first thing we should do. Only after we have done that should we expand on the experiments being done in the Jouhou |
March 25th, 2012
Robot Teaches Itself to Walk, Just Not Very Well
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I recently showed you a video in which a Gundam mech taught itself to walk using some sort of “genetic algorithm”. Around the same time, it turns out engineers have been giving real robots the tools they need to walk on their own.… |
March 3rd, 2012
iPhone 4S’s Siri Can Tell You Who Your Daddy is… and More
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A lot of people were disappointed when October 4 came and went without the announcement of the iPhone 5. What was unveiled instead was the iPhone 4S, that’s going to be shipping out starting today. While the device might look a lot like the iPhone 4, most similarities end there.… |
October 14th, 2011
Two ChatBots Have a Conversation
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If you’e ever been curious to know if robots would ever be smart enough to have conversations with one another – without so much as a human in the room. We now have our answer – and it’s not looking pretty for either man or machine.… |
August 29th, 2011
Swarmanoid Bots Use Foot, Hand and Eye Coordination
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By all means you’ll want to avoid the Swarmanoid. As the name implies this is a swarm of robotic components that work together like, well like a swarm of bees would.… |
August 17th, 2011
My Hexapod Robot is Smarter than Your Hexapod Robot
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Matt Bunting is a roboticist for the University of Arizona and he built a hexapod robot that uses artificial intelligence programming to learn how to move. In essence, it’s probably the smartest hexapod ‘bot out there.… |
May 22nd, 2011
Robots Start Playing Pool and Hustling Humans
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I used to love playing pool when I was younger. I still do from time-to-time, but not like I did before. Well, if you thought that you were the best at pool, you’d better move along – because soon, pool ‘bots everywhere will start hustling you for your money! The… |
June 17th, 2010
Rock Paper Scissors Glove: Computers Don’T Play Games for Fun, They Play to Win.
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Maker/Problem-solver Steve Hoefer made an Arduino-based glove that can play Rock Paper Scissors. Why? Why the hell not! You think a nerd would pass up the opportunity to play with a computer? The glove has an accelerometer that detects when the user is shaking his fist to signify the beginning… |
March 16th, 2010
Ghost in the Shell: Scientists Working on Programming Morality Into Machines
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Earlier this year, Luís Moniz Pereira of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa, in Portugal and Ari Saptawijaya of the Universitas Indonesia published a paper describing what they think is a stepping stone to having artificial intelligence that can analyze moral dilemmas and evaluate the consequences of the resolutions to the… |
December 18th, 2009
Darpa Wants Killer Robots That Help Build Themselves. Great. Just Great.
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DARPA‘s Self-Explanation Learning Framework (SELF) program “seeks to construct systems that can participate in their own construction.” Imagine a robot helping build itself. Who or what runs DARPA these days? Are there still humans in there? Things are moving too fast folks. Let’s look at the matchup for a sec:… |
June 13th, 2009
