Nobel for Brain’s Location Code
Three scientists who made headway in cracking the brain’s code win Nobel Prize for discovering animal’s “inner GPS.”The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine went to three researchers who made key...
View ArticleWork Begins on Brain Stimulator to Correct Memory
Can deep brain stimulation affect how well and what we remember?For some of the approximately 10 million people worldwide with traumatic brain injury (TBI), forming and holding onto new memories can be...
View ArticleEven Robots Now Have Their Own Virtual World
A highly realistic simulated world is proving vital to robotics researchers.In a month’s time, a motley assortment of robots will attempt to navigate a punishing obstacle course laid out in a...
View ArticleDARPA's Robot Challenge May Equip Robots to One Day Walk Among Us
The DARPA challenge, designed to make robots disaster-ready, could have far-reaching technological benefits.Few people ever need to deal with a stricken nuclear reactor, but that skill could turn out...
View ArticleA Transformer Wins DARPA's $2 Million Robotics Challenge
A robot capable of rolling on four wheels or walking on two legs shows the value of adaptability during the DARPA’s robot event.A diminutive, 200-pound silver humanoid robot from South Korea called...
View ArticleWhy Robots and Humans Struggled with DARPA’s Challenge
The falls and fumbles of robots in the DARPA Challenge point to the remaining hurdles for human-robot interfaces.When some of the world’s most advanced rescue robots are foiled by nothing more complex...
View ArticleA Robotic Walk in the Woods
A humanoid machine stumbling around the forest does not foreshadow a robot uprising.The video below shows (among other things) a humanoid robot called Atlas stumbling its way through a patch of forest....
View ArticleToyota Investing $50M with Stanford, MIT for Autonomous-Car Research
The auto maker has lured the organizer of the DARPA Robotics Challenge to lead its new AI research effort.Toyota is investing $50 million with Stanford and MIT for autonomous-vehicle research that it...
View ArticleIBM Making Plans to Commercialize Its Brain-Inspired Chip
Phones and other compact devices with silicon neurons and synapses inside could be much more useful.In August last year, IBM unveiled a chip designed to operate something like the neurons and synapses...
View ArticleToyota Wants Its Cars to Expect the Unexpected
Japanese carmaker Toyota reveals details of an ambitious $1 billion effort to advance AI and robotics.Toyota revealed more details of an ambitious plan to invest in artificial intelligence and robots...
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