(Phys.org) -- Engineers should stop working on killer robots and kick the habit of military funding, a leading Australian applied ethicist has said.
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The rise of robots and artificial intelligences
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Virginia Tech College of Engineering researchers have unveiled Cyro, a life-like, autonomous robotic jellyfish the size and weight of a grown man, five foot seven inches in length and weighing 170 pounds. Delete the scoop?
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What is everyone looking at? It's a common question in social settings because the answer identifies something of interest, or helps delineate social groupings. Delete the scoop?
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IBM researchers have used the world's most powerful supercomputer to simulate a virtual brain comparable in complexity to that of a human. 
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December 18, 2012 8:11 AM
The very notion of computers that simulate the human brain seems like pure science fiction. The reality however is that progress across disciplines such as neuroscience, artificial intelligence (particularly neural networks) and neural computer chip design is both accelerating and converging. As a result the likelihood of this type of technology emerging in the next 10 to 20 years is much greater than most people appreciate. It's also important to understand that the quest to build this technology isn't a fringe play. It is being pursued by some of the brightest minds on the planet, at some of our most prestigious universities and by some of our largest, most accomplished and most well-resourced corporations (e.g. IBM). Some observations:
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I suggest viewing as a plus to this article this interesting video made by Vsauce about consciousness. Delete the scoop?
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Toyota has developed the Partner Robot, to provide everyday assistance for people with disabilities. Delete the scoop?
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First they invaded our factories, and now it's our hotel rooms. Is nowhere safe from the robots? Delete the scoop?
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The Plant Host Drone (PHD) is a wheeled robotic pot plant holder that seeks out the sun to keep the plant soaking up the rays as the sun moves across the sk... Delete the scoop?
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Spanish start-up Aisoy Robotics is marketing a new robot that, while it may look similar to the famous Furby, is actually a fully programmable research and ... Delete the scoop?
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Russian scientists are closer than they have ever been to creating artificial intelligence. The program called “Eugene” has almost passed the famous Turing test, which checks a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent behavior. Delete the scoop?
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(Phys.org) -- Engineers should stop working on killer robots and kick the habit of military funding, a leading Australian applied ethicist has said.
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(Phys.org) -- Hanson Robotics is showing its new humanoid robot boy that belongs in its Robokind portfolio of robots, a 2012 reincarnation of its earlier cartoonlike Zeno boy but this time more humanoid with an array of gestures and eye movements. Delete the scoop?
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(Phys.org) -- Wedding DJs everywhere should be worried about job security now that a new robot is on the scene. Delete the scoop?
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Agriculture is big business.But the future of big farming isn’t in massive machinery, but swarms of smart, cheap 'bots seeding, tending and harvesting fields one plant at a time... Delete the scoop?
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One of the first patients to benefit from the pioneering procedure is Stephan Spiriak (pictured) a 55-year-old semi-retired electrician from Edgware, North London. Delete the scoop?
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Researchers converted an optical signal into a chemical signal (NO) in the cells; an electrode detected the NO and converted it into an electrical signal... Delete the scoop?
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The News Bureau, part of Public Affairs, generates and coordinates news coverage of the Urbana-Champaign campus... Delete the scoop?
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A University of Calgary research team has added a robot to help identify and customize post-stroke therapy. Delete the scoop?
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Toyota's Partner Robot program has just announced the development of a helpful Human Support Robot (HSR) to assist the elderly and disabled with everyday tasks. Since the inception of the program in... Delete the scoop?
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Researchers are using technology to find new ways of tackling cancer. Delete the scoop?
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(Phys.org)—DARPA's Cheetah robot—already the fastest legged robot in history—just broke its own land speed record of 18 miles per hour (mph). In the process, Cheetah also surpassed another very fast mover: Usain Bolt. Delete the scoop?
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(Phys.org)—Self awareness is one of the hallmarks of intelligence. We as human beings clearly understand that we are both our bodies and our minds and that others perceive us in ways differently than we perceive ourselves. Delete the scoop?
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(Phys.org) -- Pop into Cornell's Autonomous Systems Lab in Rhodes Hall any given day, and a mechanical arthropod might be negotiating a steep ramp, or a Roomba-like rover could be cleaning up a cluttered room. Delete the scoop?
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Politicians everywhere are crap—even the ones who are thinking about building a giant, working mecha. Delete the scoop?
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The BioTac sensor was built to mimic a human fingertip and can outperform humans in identifying a wide range of materials, offering potential use ... Delete the scoop?
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A robot analogous to a child between 6 and 14 months old can develop rudimentary linguistic skills through interaction with a human participant, as reported June 13 in the open access journal PLoS ONE. Delete the scoop?
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