Robotics and AI Expert Systems

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US-based researchers test pairing a robotic snake with a search-and-rescue dog in a simulated exercise in a collapsed building.

Submariners like to say there are two kinds of ships: subs and targets. The Pentagon's futurists want to turn that on its head, with a new kind of robotic surface ship that can pinpoint a sub.

May 7 (Bloomberg) -- Robotic warriors and smart computerized weapons are changing the face of defense systems. -- Subscribe to Bloomberg on YouTube: http://w...

Robots confused about what they encounter in the world of humans can now go online to get help from a web-based 'brain'.

A four-legged robot called BigDog now also sports an arm powerful enough to lift and throw breeze blocks.

The rise of robotics and automation offer the U.S. a chance to generate great wealth that can be redistributed to reinvent the workplace

Will the robots have replaced us - or at least our jobs - by 2063? Will technology save or slay small business?

Darpa just tested two new methods for hunting enemy submarines: a distributed network of sensors on the sea floor that listen for their acoustic signatures and an underwater robot to track them when found.

The DARPA ACTUV program aims to develop an unmanned autonomous surface vessel with the ability to track a quiet diesel-electric submarine overtly for months ...

Robot-assisted hysterectomy became 20 times more common between 2007 and 2010.

The da Vinci, a surgical robot costing up to $2.6 million, gives surgeons powerful new abilities in the operating room.

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Away from automatic vacuum cleaners and military drones, significant yet subtle innovation means robotics are now a big part of our lives.