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10/18/2018 / By Edsel Cook

New project aims to improve human-robot interaction by developing a child-like android capable of speech

Japanese researchers are trying to bridge the communications gap between humans and robots. Their bright idea involves plastering the face of a human child on a talking robot, an article in Science Direct stated. Designed by an Osaka University (OU) research team, the new conversational robot is called Ibuki. It is part of the university’s […]

09/20/2018 / By Jhoanna Robinson

AI robot attends college, including a course about love

BINA48, a robot owned by lawyer, author, and entrepreneur Martine Aliana Rothblatt’s Terrasem Movement Foundation (TMF) is living the life of any normal college student in America: She attends classes at Notre Dame de Namur University in Belmont, California, and every once in a while gets excused from those classes when she needs to get […]

08/25/2018 / By David Williams

Digital assistants could serve as your alter ego in 20 years’ time, say Microsoft execs in new book about A.I.

Thanks to the introduction and the proliferation of smartphone technology, the world has changed drastically in only 20 years. What once needed the use of multiple devices and a well-thought-out morning routine – such as waking up to the smell of coffee, reading the latest news, and catching a ride to work 0 can now be […]

07/25/2018 / By Rhonda Johansson

Meaningless misery awaits: Self-driving cars, robots and AI will leave a THIRD of the population unemployed, expert warns

Computing expert at Oklahoma University, Dr. Subhash Kak, predicts a very grim future for us. According to him, we’re driving ourselves to a future that’s meaningless – and it’s all thanks to our disturbing desire to automate everything. This miserable future is the inevitable outcome of the snowball effect self-driving cars would have in how […]

06/24/2018 / By Jessica Dolores

Primary schools in Finland use robot teachers that can speak 23 languages, adjust to student’s skill level and even dance

Elias is not a person. It’s a robot that teaches language to students of Finnish primary schools. Elias doesn’t get tired of repeating answers to questions that students ask over and over. It doesn’t embarrass children with reprimands about undone homework, failing grades, repeated absences, tardiness and other forms of delinquencies. It can even break into […]

06/14/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Army researchers develop A.I. tech that helps U.S. soldiers learn 13x faster than conventional methods

A Phys.org article states that Army researchers are making huge strides in the field of artificial intelligence (AI) that can support U.S. soldiers on the battlefield. Their latest development is an affordable yet capable AI assistant that can reportedly help human troops learn more than 13 times faster than normal training methods. Featuring vastly improved […]

05/30/2018 / By Edsel Cook

Chinese AI able to diagnose and identify cancerous prostate samples as well as human doctors

A Chinese research team has come up with an artificial intelligence (AI) to help them diagnose prostate biopsies and identify possible cancers. According to an article on SciMex.org, the AI is as good as a human pathologist. The learning software is said to be able to grade the malignancy of the cancer with significant accuracy. […]

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