Shape-shifting modular robot is more than the sum of its parts
General-purpose robots have plenty of limitations. They can be expensive and cumbersome. They often accomplish only a single type of task.
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Empathetic machines favored by skeptics but might creep out believers
Most people would appreciate a chatbot that offers sympathetic or empathetic responses, according to a team of researchers, but they added that reaction may rely on how comfortable the person is with the idea of a feeling ...
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Machines that learn language more like kids do
Children learn language by observing their environment, listening to the people around them, and connecting the dots between what they see and hear. Among other things, this helps children establish their language's word ...
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Urban swarms for autonomous waste management
Researchers at MIT Media Lab, the University of Pisa, and Université Libre de Bruxelles have recently explored the feasibility of using swarm robotic systems for autonomous waste management. Their approach, outlined in a ...
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New model offers more specifics about the swaying of the Millennium Bridge
Two researchers at Ohio State University have built a model to further explore the swaying experienced by the Millennium Bridge in London. In their paper published in the journal Biology Letters, Varun Joshi and Manoj Srinivasan ...
Internet
Protecting the 'right to be forgotten' in the age of blockchain
There's been a lot of hype about blockchain over the past year. Although best known as the technology that underpins Bitcoin, blockchain is starting to disrupt other industries, from supply chains to energy trading.
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Model paves way for faster, more efficient translations of more languages
MIT researchers have developed a novel "unsupervised" language translation model—meaning it runs without the need for human annotations and guidance—that could lead to faster, more efficient computer-based translations ...
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AI creatives play with scary music, zany costume ideas as part of Halloween
Oh, the boo and eek of it all. Artificial intelligence is at the head table thanks to technology creatives who want to make Halloween 2018 rather special.
