Robotics and AI Expert Systems

Chief executive Mark Fields says Ford is tripling its investment in autonomous technology,Cloud Computing,Strategy,Developer,Internet ,Ford,Cars,Apps,Apple,Android,Internet of Things

Creating a computer “personality” is as much an art as it is a science, and it’s a challenge that more and more software designers are grappling with.

Anyone who follows sci-fi will have come across the “universal translator“. To get around use of other languages on the shows that aliens would undoubtedly speak, (other than when part of a plot device, like Klingon or Na’vi), a computer does all the work of understanding other languages so the human explorers don’t have to. …

Microsoft's Xiaoice voice assistant is reportedly acing the Turing test, fooling many people in China that the program is an actual person.

American victim of repeated cold calls decided to fight phone technology with phone technology, conceiving a brilliant - and hilarious - plan to 'hit them ...

Google DeepMind's machine-learning system may have triumphed at the famously complex game of Go but researchers question the limitations of the tech giant's approach.

The thing about Siri is you can call her a bitch and she won't mind. You can switch out her voice, replace it with a bloke's, call him a bitch, too, and be ...

Roboticist Auke Ijspeert designs biorobots, machines modeled after real animals that are capable of handling complex terrain and would appear at home in the pages of a sci-fi novel. The process of creating these robots leads to better automata that can be used for fieldwork, service, and search and rescue. But these robots don't just mimic the natural world -- they help us understand our own biology better, unlocking previously unknown secrets of the spinal cord.

The 'robots are coming for our jobs' trope just hit the screenwriting industry.

V3 talks to Ocado and Cambridge Consultants about how they built a system to control 1,000 robots in a new distribution warehouse,Cloud Computing,Business Software ,Internet of Things,Robot,Retail

Rule changes could help accelerate driverless car testing,Public Sector,Software,Government ,Google,Cars,Big Data,Internet of Things,Artificial Intelligence

As Google's head of artificial intelligence takes charge of search, deep learning is already changing the way Googling works.

Acquisition shows how government funding and support can catapult digital startups into successful companies,Small Business,Mergers,Finance,Government,Cloud Computing,Mobile Software ,Microsoft,Start-up,SMB,iOS,Android,Smartphones,Apps

Google DeepMind's machine-learning system may have triumphed at the famously complex game of Go but researchers question the limitations of the tech giant's approach.

The effort to create the smartest AI has truly become a race, and the contestants are among the most powerful and wealthy people on the planet.