Jun 1, 2016 @ 21:03 | Stanford| USA | Human behavior cannot be predicted by any mathematical rule; human may behave differently in different situations and also changes over time. So to navigate among the humans on sidewalks and mingle with humans in crowded places, robots have to understand the unwritten rules of human behavior. […]
May 31, 2016 @ 20:12 | UK | With the advancement in artificial intelligence and machine learning, researchers are developing self-conscious robots. Since the 1970s psychologists have used mirrors (mirror test) to search for signs of self- consciousness in both humans and animals. Along the way, they came to believe that humans were almost universally […]
May 18, 2016 @ 20:47 | Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software is helping robots cope, whether they’re beating a path across the Moon or grabbing a milk jug from the back of the refrigerator. The software not only helped a robot deal efficiently with clutter, it surprisingly […]
Feb 17, 2016 @ 17:22 | The rapid pace of artificial intelligence (AI) has raised fears about whether robots could act unethically or soon choose to harm humans. Some are calling for bans on robotics research; others are calling for more research to understand how AI might be constrained. But how can robots learn ethical […]
20 January 2016 | WASHINGTON—After a month-long public vote, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation (ITIF) today announced that it has given its annual Luddite Award to a loose coalition of scientists and luminaries who stirred fear and hysteria in 2015 by raising alarms that artificial intelligence (AI) could spell doom for humanity. ITIF argued […]
13 August 2015, Duke University – Human brains are able to focus in on one conversation in the hubub of a cocktail party by discarding the background noise. But what about robots? Researchers from Duke University demonstrated a intelligent device that can distinguish speakers in crowd. It is called the ‘cocktail party problem’. Typical approaches to solving it […]
13 August 2015, CMU – When we move, we rarely move in the exact same way twice. The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Carnegie Mellon University Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering Steven Chase and Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Byron Yu, and their long-time collaborator, University of Pittsburgh Associate […]
Since the 1970s psychologists have used mirrors (mirror test) to search for signs of self- consciousness in both humans and animals. Along the way, they came to believe that humans were almost universally able to pass a mirror-based self-recognition test by 24 months of age. Then the question comes in our mind, Can robots be […]