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Artificial Intelligence

"Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity." -unknown author

It may not be Hal—at least we hope not—but artificial intelligence is bringing computers ever closer to humans.

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  • December 2007

    • Robots Could Care for Elderly

      AFP  |  Dec 6, 07 6:29 PM CST

      Robots Could Care for Elderly

      (Newser) - Toyota’s new robot can play the violin, and the car-maker hopes it could be used in the future to care for the elderly, AFP reports. The 5-foot-tall robot has 17 hand and arm joints, giving it enough dexterity to play an error-free “Pomp and Circumstance” today. Toyota wants to put human-assisting robots on the market early next decade. More »

    • Robots Battle for Championship

      Reuters  |  Dec 3, 07 4:05 PM CST

      Robots Battle for Championship

      (Newser) - Robots battled for the title of world champion Saturday at Tokyo's 12th Robo-One Grand Championship match, where amateur-built bipeds competed to stay on their feet. With companies giving up on consumer robotics projects due to high costs, "the future of robotics depends on amateurs," the chairman of the Robo-One committee told Reuters. More »

  • November 2007

    • Robots, Start Your Engines

      Forbes  |  Nov 2, 07 12:30 PM CDT

      Robots, Start Your Engines

      (Newser) - Some of the most high-tech vehicles in the world will compete for big money by zipping around a race course tomorrow, all without one low-tech component—a human driver. Eleven robotic vehicles will race in a simulated city environment at a former Air Force base in California, Forbes reports. The winner gets $2 million and a crack at military contracts. More »

  • October 2007

    • Get Ready for Robot Love

      LiveScience  |  Oct 13, 07 12:28 PM CDT

      Get Ready for Robot Love

      (Newser) - It’s a small step from Roomba to betrothed, says researcher David Levy, whose Ph.D. thesis predicts humans will have sex with and marry robots within half a century. Robots have moved from factories to homes—witness the popularity of Roomba vacuum cleaners—and are becoming more human in appearance. “The question is not if this will happen, but when,” Levy told LiveScience . More »

  • September 2007

    • Opportunity Knocks on Mars

      Associated Press  |  Sep 28, 07 10:47 AM CDT

      Opportunity Knocks on Mars

      (Newser) - NASA’s Martian explorer Opportunity reached its first destination inside the cavernous Victoria Crater yesterday and prepared to get to work drilling into bright rock layers to collect data. The six-wheeled robot last month began the precarious decline into the crater, headed for a shiny piece of bedrock that scientists think is a relic of the ancient Martian surface, the AP reports. More »

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A humanoid robot has her teeth checked by a dentist at Japan's largest robot convention in Tokyo Wednesday Nov. 28, 2007. The life-size dental training robot, dubbed Simroid for "simulator humanoid,"...   (Associated Press)
Humanoid robot Twendy-One carries a tray of breakfast during a demonstration of the robot designed to be safe to take care of elderly at the university laboratory in Tokyo Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2007. The...   (Associated Press)
A humanoid robot has her teeth checked by a dentist at Japan's largest robot convention in Tokyo Wednesday Nov. 28, 2007. The life-size dental training robot, dubbed Simroid for "simulator humanoid,"...   (Associated Press)
A humanoid robot, without its facial skin, is displayed at Japan's largest robot convention in Tokyo Wednesday Nov. 28, 2007. The life-size dental training robot, dubbed Simroid for "simulator humanoid,"...   (Associated Press)
Two-legged "e-nuvo Walk" Verstion 3 robot kicks a ball during a press preview in Tokyo Thursday, Nov. 29, 2007. ZMP of Japan began selling the walking robot Thursday that runs on Microsoft's new robotics...   (Associated Press)
Humanoid robot Twendy-One carries a tray of breakfast as Waseda University student Genki Fujii is seated on a wheelchair during a demonstration of the robot designed to be safe to take care of elderly,...   (Associated Press)
Toyota Motor Corp.'s new violin robot performs during a press unveiling in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. Compared to a virtuoso, its rendition was a trifle stilted and, well, robotic. But Toyota's new...   (Associated Press)
A Toyota Motor Corp. employee scoots around on the Japanese automaker's new wheelchair-like "mobility robot" during a press unveiling in Tokyo Thursday, Dec. 6, 2007. (AP Photo/Katsumi Kasahara)   (Associated Press)
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Ability of a machine to perform tasks thought to require human intelligence. Typical applications include game playing, language translation, expert systems, and robotics. Although pseudo-intelligent machinery dates back to antiquity, the first glimmerings of true intelligence awaited the ...

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