Artificial Intelligence
Simplicity is key to co-operative robots
A way of making hundreds - or even thousands - of tiny robots cluster to carry out tasks without using...
IBM creates liquid-based transistors that can process data like the human brain
Researchers at IBM has given the transistor a major makeover, and it may enable the company to build computers that...
Cybathlon 2016: first ‘Olympics’ for bionic athletes
Cybathlon, a Swiss-hosted Olympics for bionic athletes, will be held in October 2016.The Cybathlon is a championship for racing pilots...
Could a Robot Deliver Motivational Speeches?
Imagine a day when a form of artificial intelligence could deliver a speech as compelling as one given by a...
Zuckerberg, Musk and Kutcher Invest In Artificial Intelligence Firm
Billionaire tech entrepreneurs Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg, along with actor Ashton Kutcher, have joined forces to make a $40...
A brain connected by Bluetooth to an artificial hand
A 15-year-old high school sophomore from Westford, Nathan has earned international renown — and a nice chunk of money —...
The Cyborgs Era Has Started
Medical implants, complex interfaces between brain and machine or remotely controlled insects: Recent developments combining machines and organisms have great...
Insect Nervous System Copied To Boost Computing Power
Brains are the most powerful computers known. Now microchips built to mimic insects’ nervous systems have been shown to successfully...
Rise of the compliant machines
MIT spinout Meka Robotics, recently acquired by Google, creates ‘sociable’ humanoids that could help advance human-robot interaction. Are we on...
Paul Allen Foundation looking for artificial intelligence researchers
The Paul G. Allen Family Foundation is taking proposals from researchers interested in working on using “risky, novel approaches” to...
IBM is bringing Watson to your smartphone
IBM’s Watson is one of the smartest computer systems on the planet: its advanced artificial intelligence can answer natural language...