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Posts Tagged ‘robots’
Emotion robots learn from people
April 27, 2009
Making robots that interact with people emotionally is the goal of a European project led by British scientists.
Feelix Growing is a research project involving six countries, and 25 roboticists, developmental psychologists and neuroscientists.
By BBC News
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Robots, Robots, Everywhere
April 24, 2009
The Robobusiness 2009 conference is going on this weekend in Boston, proving that robots are not our future but our present. They already affect our daily lives in more ways than we realize and promise to do more soon.
By Jonathan Blum and Dan Evans (ABC News)
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Electric Thoughts?
April 8, 2009
How long does it take you to add 3,456,732 and 2,245,678? Ten seconds? Not bad–for a human. The average new PC can perform the calculation in 0.000000018 second. How about your memory? Can you remember a shopping list of 10 items? Maybe 20? Compare that with 125 million items for the PC.
By Yvonne Raley (Scientific America)
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The Cognitive Revolution: Integrating Computers & the Human Mind
March 11, 2009
Imagine a world where machines know you on a personal level. By modeling a virtual “you” into their programming—including how you think and your expertise on a subject—it would know just how to accommodate your particular preferences. It’s the kind of world where your car understands how you drive and compensates for your weaknesses, and where your home computer knows not to greet you too cheerfully when you’re having a bad day.
By Rebecca Sato (The Daily Galaxy)
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Robots and the Future
March 11, 2009
Science and technology is starting to delve into the possibility of creating a humanoid robot that can feel, think and act in the same way as any human. They are experimenting on the human brain, linking robotic hands to our brain synapses, creating full models of humanoid robots that are now in the beginning stages in their design, now taken on as a technological challenge. What is to become of this technology in the future and to what limits will we take our exploration into the arena of creating humanoid robots?
By Stacey T Pollock (Creation Theory Revised)
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