Featured Image: The robot Maria from the classic movie, “Metropolis”. SOURCE: Google. (Public-Domain).
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Published on Mar 6, 2013
Video Name is = Robotics and Artificial Intelligence : How Robots Will Change Society In The Next Decade
From Science Daily
Feb. 11, 2013 — Spending a day in someone else’s shoes can help us to learn what makes them tick. Now the same approach is being used to develop a better understanding between humans and robots, to enable them to work together as a team.
Robots are increasingly being used in the manufacturing industry to perform tasks that bring them into closer contact with humans. But while a great deal of work is being done to ensure robots and humans can operate safely side-by-side, more effort is needed to make robots smart enough to work effectively with people, says Julie Shah, an assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics at MIT and head of the Interactive Robotics Group in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). . . . Read Complete Report
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‘BigDog’ robot trained to throw cinder blocks
Published on Mar 6, 2013
The Army Research Laboratories Robotics Program has improved the robot known as “Big Dog.” This mechanical dog doesn’t just bite, but now Big Dog is capable of hurling 35 pounds cinder blocks. RT’s Liz Wahl has more.
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ScienceDaily (June 20, 2012) — The human brain can recognize thousands of different objects, but neuroscientists have long grappled with how the brain organizes object representation; in other words, how the brain perceives and identifies different objects. Now researchers at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the MIT Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences have discovered that the brain organizes objects based on their physical size, with a specific region of the brain reserved for recognizing large objects and another reserved for small objects.
Their findings, to be published in the June 21 issue of Neuron, could have major implications for fields like robotics, and could lead to a greater understanding of how the brain organizes and maps information. . . . Read Complete Report
Sounds like a Will Smith movie script to me. But then, seems to be lots of stuff sounds like a movie script to me lately. . . .EDITOR
Featured Image: Swarm of open-source Jasmine micro-robots recharging themselves. CREDIT:Serge Kernbach. Original uploader was Sergkorn at en.wikipedia. SOURCE: Wikipedia Commons. (Public Domain – CC-BY-SA-3.0; Released under the GNU Free Documentation 9License.)
“Swarm robotics is a new approach to the coordination of multirobot systems which consist of large numbers of mostly simple physical robots. It is supposed that a desired collective behavior emerges from the interactions between the robots and interactions of robots with the environment. This approach emerged on the field of artificial swarm intelligence, as well as the biological studies of insects, ants and other fields in nature, where swarm behaviour occurs. . . . Wikipedia
From Science Daily
Oct. 27, 2008 — Recent discoveries of water and Earth-like soil on Mars have set imaginations running wild that human beings may one day colonize the Red Planet. However, the first inhabitants might not be human in form at all, but rather swarms of tiny robots.
“Small robots that are able to work together could explore the planet. We now know there is water and dust so all they would need is some sort of glue to start building structures, such as homes for human scientists,” says Marc Szymanski, a robotics researcher at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany. . . . Read Complete Report
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Scientists Develop Robotic Ants
Published on Apr 2, 2013
Scientists develop robotic ants.
Featured Image:Hollow Robotman. Original art produced by Jim Sutton. SOURCE: RobotClipArt (Public Domain).
Another “Robots into Humans” Archive piece. . . EDITOR
From National Geographic Brian by Handwerk Published July 18, 2013
Would a robot serving you coffee in bed make waking up easier on weekday mornings? Could a household robot help an elderly relative who is living alone? How would you like to climb into a robotic car and eat breakfast with the kids while you’re all driven to school and work?
These scenarios may sound like science fiction, but experts say they’re a lot closer to becoming reality than you probably think.
Brown University roboticist Chad Jenkins expects a near-term robot revolution that will echo the computing revolution of recent decades. And he says it will be driven by enabling robots to learn more like humans do—by watching others demonstrate behaviors and by asking questions. . . . Read Complete Report
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From IEEE Spectrum
Photo: (THEI Archive) Nao humanoid robot CREDIT: Jiuguang Wang SOURCE:Wikipedia (Public domain)
By LUCAS LAURSEN / MARCH 2013
To be nice, robot rhetoric should be less precise
Baking cupcakes can be as much a matter of social interaction as it is a mechanical exercise. Never is this more true than when your kitchen partner is a robot. Their always-right, ego-deflating advice can be off-putting, reports social psychologistSara Kiesler and her colleagues from Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh. But having them employ a different type of rhetoric could help soften the blow.
In one study, Kiesler’s former student Cristen Torrey, now at Adobe, observed how expert bakers shared advice with less-experienced volunteers. She recorded the interactions and extracted a few different approaches the experts used. For instance, “likable people equivocate when they are giving help,” Kiesler says. That is, they say things such as “Maybe you can try X” rather than simply “Do X.” They also soften their advice with extraneous words such as “Well, so, you can try X.” . . Read Complete Report
Photo: Mechanical Man Film, 1921 CREDIT Andre Deed Milano Films Public Domain
From IEEE Spectrum
POSTED BY: EVAN ACKERMAN / THU, JANUARY 31, 2013
People are always so worried about robots gaining sentience and killing all humans, but what about humans, who already are sentient (mostly), mercilessly killing robots every time we turn them off? We’re setting a bad example, and robots tend to have very long memories reliable hard drives. As it turns out, though, when you put people in the position of seeing robots as having their own intelligence, it becomes very difficult for most of us to flip the switch. Especially if the robot is begging us not to. . . . Read Complete Report
Photo: Black Marble. Earth lights from space. CREDIT NASA (Public Domain)
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By Joel N. Shurkin, ISNS Contributor
Inside Science News Service
Friday, December 14, 2012 15:42
What if everything — all of us, the world, the universe — was not real? What if everything we are, know and do was really just someone’s computer simulation?
The notion that our reality was some kid on a couch in the far future playing with a computer game like a gigantic Sim City, or Civilization, and we are his characters, isn’t new. But a group of physicists now think they know of a way to test the concept. Three of them propose to test reality by simulating the simulators.
Martin Savage, professor of physics at the University of Washington, Zohreh Davoudi, one of his graduate students, and Silas Beane of the University of New Hampshire, would like to see whether they can find traces of simulation in cosmic rays. The work was uploaded in arXiv, an online archive for drafts of academic research papers. . . . Read Complete Report
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from Huffington Post
Huffington Post UK | By Michael Rundle
Posted: 11/10/2012 15:22 Updated: 12/10/2012 16:44
Physicists say they may have evidence that the universe is a computer simulation.
How? They made a computer simulation of the universe. And it looks sort of like us.
A long-proposed thought experiment, put forward by both philosophers and popular culture, points out that any civilisation of sufficient size and intelligence would eventually create a simulation universe if such a thing were possible.
And since there would therefore be many more simulations (within simulations, within simulations) than real universes, it is therefore more likely than not that our world is artificial. . . . Read Complete Report
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from Cornell University
Constraints on the Universe as a Numerical Simulation
If this doesn’t belong in our “Robots Replacing Humans” Archive, nothing does. Can’t wait until this is totally developed. Just think the tasks the Controllers could program into deceptive robots. . . . EDITOR
from IEEESpectrum
POSTED BY: EVAN ACKERMAN / MON, DECEMBER 03, 2012
We know, we know, robots being deceptive sounds like a bad thing. Potentially avery bad thing. But the fact is, deception is everywhere, and for good reason: being deceptive is often the most efficient and effective way to protect yourself from harm. Deception is by no means unique to humans, either: animals are masters at deceiving other animals (and us), and Ron Arkin’s group at Georgia Tech has been teaching robots to learn deception from a pro: the squirrel. . . . Read Complete Report
from IEEE Spectrum
POSTED BY: EVAN ACKERMAN / MON, OCTOBER 29, 2012
The official induction ceremony for the Robot Hall of Fame took place at at Carnegie Science Center in Pittsburgh last week. Over 17,000 people cast votes online to choose which are the four best robots of 2012, and which robots totally suck. We kid! If it was up to us, all of these robots would have made it in, and we’re still holding out hope that a few of them will come back for the next round. But until that happens, here are the winners, along with some of our favorite video clips. . . . Read complete Report w/video clips
