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iRobot® ConnectR™ Virtual Visiting Robot
Stay close to those you love – no matter where you are!
Don’t miss out on special moments at home even when yo ...
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Attempts to simulate the brain usually involve programmi... behave like groups of neurons. A new "neuromorphic" desi... recreate the brain's hardware, using analogue components...
The Spikey chip contains 400 "neurons", or printed circu ...
Spikey also

or the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been dev... expect will be the world’s most advanced “question a... machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday... — “natural language,” as computer scientists call ...
With Watson

Google, a pioneer of self-driving cars, is quietly lobby... that would make Nevada the first state where they could ... on public roads.

It's no secret to that our society is getting older. Mor...
The solution, the robotics industry hopes, is technology ...
Japanese Nursebots can lift up elderly patients and brin ...
In recent years, Japanese tech giant Panasonic has creat ...
In the next

Particle swarm optimization (PSO) is a population based ...
PSO shares many similarities with evolutionary computati ...
Each particle keeps track of its coordinates in the prob ...
The particle swarm optimization concept consists of, at ...
... specifi

"Like a real-world personal assistant, sometimes Cortana... inaccurate conclusion about what is important to you, (i... information that accurately reflects you but that you ar... sharing with others, or (iii) remember some information ... no longer t

November 25, 2009
International Robot Exhibition 2009
The Tokyo International Robot Exhibition is normally a s ...
Dai Kurokawa/EPA
An employee of UK robot maker Shadow Robot Company weari ...

In this report, we argue that there is a realistic possibility that some AI systems will be conscious and/or robustly agentic in the near future.

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

Our team learned from two years of researching the world... where content moderation is a steady stream of gig work,... practices of both the largest and the smallest companies... involve literally thousands of decisions about what cont... delete.

No UI is the New UI
On the rise of UI-less apps and why you should
care about them as a designer.

A peaceful movement fights against violence and oppressi... nothing much changes. Then, everything changes.
Why do many complex systems – cultures, environments, ...
There's a tool that can help us understand this: attract ...

Robot chefs are replacing humans at some South Korean highway restaurants.
Tech companies say robots can help solve labor shortage in an aging nation.
Workers say their roles have been downgraded from chefs to cleaning staff.

Shortly after OpenAI released o1, its first “reasoning” AI model, people began noting a curious phenomenon. The model would sometimes begin “thinking” in Chinese, Persian, or some other language — even when asked a question in Eng...

In 2018, a study analysed 14 million tweets over a ten-month period in 2016 and 2017. It found bots on social media were significantly involved in disseminating articles from unreliable sources. Accounts with high numbers of followers were ...

AI's solution to the 'cocktail party problem' used in court

A new method for detecting bowel cancer is more than 90% accurate at predicting which higher-risk people will develop the disease, according to research.

It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on ...

A recent survey of people using GenAI tools at work found that 77% said that AI had added to their workload rather than increased their productivity in the way envisioned by their bosses.  

Google's dominance in search, which a federal court recently ruled as an illegal monopoly, has positioned the company as a powerful player in the emerging AI industry.
This has led to accusations of unfair competition, especially as the AI ...

Rather than pointlessly rehearsing entire sections of th... little bearing on the player’s overall score, “dream... to highlight certain sections of the game that are espec... and repeat them ad nauseam until expertise is achieved. ... technique,

the Analytical Engine weaves algebraical patterns just as the Jacquard-loom weaves flowers and leaves.

During operations in Gaza in mid-May, the Israel Defense... a swarm of small drones to locate, identify and attack H... This is thought to be the first time a drone swarm has b...

Mr. Williams knew that he had not committed the crime in question. What he could not have known, as he sat in the interrogation room, is that his case may be the first known account of an American being wrongfully arrested based on a flawed...

Technology is starting to behave in intelligent and unpr... even its creators don’t understand. As machines increa... events, how can we regain control?