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Nov 14, 2015

Single Artificial Neuron Taught to Recognize Hundreds of Patterns

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI

Biologists have long puzzled over why neurons have thousands of synapses. Now neuroscientists have shown they are crucial not just for recognizing patterns but for learning the sequence in which they appear.

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Nov 14, 2015

Disney Research-CMU design tool helps novices design 3D-printable robotic creatures

Posted by in categories: 3D printing, robotics/AI

Digital designs for robotic creatures are shown on the left and the physical prototypes produced via 3-D printing are on the right (credit: Disney Research, Carnegie Melon University)

Now you can design and build your own customized walking robot using a 3-D printer and off-the-shelf servo motors, with the help of a new DYI design tool developed by Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University.

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Nov 14, 2015

Self-parallel parking car

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Mitsubishi Self-Driving Car


This new Mitsubishi self-driving car is so advanced it can parallel park itself.

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Nov 14, 2015

These Are the Droids We’re Looking For

Posted by in categories: futurism, robotics/AI

Could the planet’s next catastrophe be averted by R2-D2? That’s the idea behind the DARPA Robotics Challenge, a robot Olympiad designed to create autonomous machines that can go where no man can or should go—nuclear disaster sites, minefields, Montauk over Labor Day weekend—and fix all the toxic messes we make. The stakes are $3.5 million. Oh, and possibly the future of mankind.

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Nov 13, 2015

Google researcher: Quantum computers aren’t perfect for deep learning

Posted by in categories: computing, quantum physics, robotics/AI

In the past couple of years, Google has been trying to improve more and more of its services with artificial intelligence. Google also happens to own a quantum computer — a system capable of performing certain computations faster than classical computers.

It would be reasonable to think that Google would try running AI workloads on the quantum computer it got from startup D-Wave, which is kept at NASA’s Ames Research Center in Mountain View, California, right near Google headquarters.

Google is keen on advancing its capabilities in a type of AI called deep learning, which involves training artificial neural networks on a large supply of data and then getting them to make inferences about new data.

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Nov 13, 2015

Cop pulls over Google self-driving car, finds no driver to ticket

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

No driver? No ticket.

That, at least, was the result when a police officer pulled over one of Google’s self-driving cars Thursday in Mountain View, California.

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Nov 11, 2015

Meet Tally, a robot that endlessly roams around and scans retail store aisles

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

It might not be too long before a trip to the grocery store involves dodging Tally, a new robot designed to tootle from aisle to aisle while taking note of stock levels.

Tally’s Silicon Valley creators, Simbe Robotics, point out that most retailers currently rely on IT systems and manual labor to manage inventory, but call this method “costly and inaccurate.” Tally can apparently do full-store audits in a fraction of the usual time, keeping staff up to date on what items are running low so that shelves can be quickly refilled.

Simbie says Tally’s ability to carry out such “repetitive and laborious” auditing tasks means human staff can get on with serving customers directly.

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Nov 10, 2015

Breakthrough: Preventing a Robot Takeover

Posted by in categories: innovation, robotics/AI

Michio Kaku on A.I.


“Why compete with robots when we can take the best attributes of robots and incoporate it into our body?” — Dr. Michio Kaku. Do you agree?

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Nov 10, 2015

NextTech: This Robotic Snake Is A Shapeshifter

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Shape — Shifting Robotic Snake


It can morph into a lamp stand as quick as it provides email notifications: There’s not much this shapeshifting snake can’t do. http://voc.tv/1P6L9zh

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Nov 9, 2015

Meet The ‘Trans-Humanist’ Presidential Candidate

Posted by in categories: geopolitics, robotics/AI, transhumanism

A new story out in Breitbart that’s about AI, transhumanism, and politics: http://www.breitbart.com/tech/2015/11/08/trans-humanist-pres…overlords/


Zoltan Istvan is running for President in 2016, and hoping he might be one of the last humans to hold the job.

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