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A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how to perform new tasks. The system, which is under development as an artificial brain for autonomous mental development robots, is currently being used to learn about objects in photos using image searches on the internet. It can also take aspects of other known objects and combine them to make guesses about objects it doesn't yet recognize.
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Proteus Digital Health has developed a pill that can text an alert when it enters a patient’s stomach. The technology, widely tested and already available for over-the-counter sale in a pilot program in the UK is just one of several new developments in caregiving technology designed to prevent hospital readmissions and relieve family caregivers of the persistent worry: “Is Dad taking his meds?”
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(Phys.org) —A team of scientists and engineers at the University of Minnesota is giving new meaning to the old adage: 'Mind over matter.'
An American military contractor has demonstrated a humanoid robot in camouflage clothing which can run, jump and even sweat like a real human. And yes, it looks nightmarish.
This is what you get when you take data from a CT scan and convert it into a format that can be read by a 3D-printer. It's a skeleton. But not just any skeleton.
When it comes to wearable computing, we mostly think of the wrist and face: Google, with its futuristic Glass eyewear, and Apple, with its supposed iWatch.
It's a basic human desire to separate an OREO cookie. Humans love either cookie or creme. And sometimes a man just needs to invent a machine to do the hard w...
"Published on Feb 18, 2013 Can we use our brains to directly control machines -- without requiring a body as the middleman? Miguel Nicolelis talks through an astonishing experiment, in which a clever monkey in the US learns to control a monkey avatar, and then a robot arm in Japan, purely with its thoughts. The research has big implications for quadraplegic people -- and maybe for all of us. (Filmed at TEDMED 2012.)"
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Apple and Google are just two of the giants working on gadgets that were once the realm of sci-fi – but that also push the frontiers of the privacy debate, reports Dominic Rushe
A system to enable a car to drive itself has been shown off at Oxford University, with a hope such technology could eventually cost just £100.
MyndPlay is a multi platform media player that allows you to control video and movies with your mind using your NeuroSky Headset.
Rex, as he's called, has been put together by an expert team for a forthcoming Channel 4 documentary 'How to Build a Bionic Man' - in an effort to show just how far prosthetic science has advanced. Tom Clarke reports.
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A group of researchers from the University of Duisburg Essen in Germany used fMRI (functional magnetic resonance imaging) to come to the finding, tracking blood flow in the brains of 14 study participants when they were shown videos of humans, robots and inanimate objects being treated either affectionately or harshly. The researchers, who will present their findings at the June International Communication Association conference in London, found that when participants were shown videos of a robot (a product called Pleo, which resembles a dinosaur) petted, tickled and fed, areas in their limbic structures—a region of the brain believed to be involved in emotional responses—activated. When they were shown videos of a human getting a massage, the same sorts of neural activity occurred.
The same pattern also occurred when the participants were shown videos of the robots and humans being treated harshly—shaken, dropped or suffocated with a plastic bag—but with a twist. Interestingly, their fMRI results showed levels of limbic activity much greater when they saw humans treated poorly than when they saw the robots. This correlated with the responses on surveys that the participants took after watching the videos, on which they reported some empathy for the robots, but more for the humans.
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Devices inside pills could monitor health issues or deliver targeted cancer drugs. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are developing edible electronic devices that could monitor health, deliver drugs, or stimulate damaged tissue in the gastrointestinal tract or small intestine. Patients would swallow a pill containing the device. According to Christopher Bettinger, an assistant professor at CMU, the power sources for the devices would be made of flexible polymer electrodes and a sodium ion electrochemical cell. Once in place, the device could power biosensors to measure biomarkers, check for gastric problems, or aid in targeted drug delivery for certain cancers. The very first digital pills, which tell doctors whether patients are taking their prescriptions correctly, were approved just last year.
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Heineken Ignite is a smart beer bottle that lights up when clinked together with another one and flashes in time with musical beats.
You need only a few simple ingredients to make something amazing.
From robots that deliver aid, to robots that can save your life, we write about world-changing bots often. But occasionally an artificially intelligent creature comes along that can do more than guard the oceans or take your pulse.
Humans have been interfacing with machines for thousands of years. You have probably heard a lot about wearables, living services, the Internet of Things, and smart materials by now.
Via Kenneth Mikkelsen
Want to see how Glass actually feels? It's surprisingly simple. Say "take a picture" to take a picture. Record what you see, hands free. Even share what you ...
The US Department of Defense is funding the development of a hardware peripheral and software suite that turns a regular smartphone into a device that scans and transmits biometric data at distan...
In 2005, whether you were using a dumb phone with T9 Word or a BlackBerry with a physical keyboard, you were probably texting without looking at your phone, at least occasionally. It was just part of the times, like Brick Breaker, or Nelly.
When Nike CEO Mark Parker is about to reveal something ahead of the company's plan, his PR teams will try to stop him.
The British military is testing out miniature drones that are barely four inches long. Called the Black Hornet Nano Unmanned Air Vehicle, the microdrone is unarmed but with sophisticated camera capabilities and is now being used in Afghanistan.
The Human Brain Project has just won a €1 billion research prize. Its director Henry Markram says the initiative will unify our understanding of the brain
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Once that all AI's will be able to not only parse and recognize data from internet but also efficiently communicate with each other and share the results programmers will become obsolete. Well let's have a good time while it lasts.