Google has taught its controversial human-sounding
robot to identify itself as a machine when it makes a phone call, after an early demonstration caused a storm over whether people were being tricked ...
Here's why Google's new AI assistant tells you it's a robot — even if it sounds humanWashington PostGoogle's robot caller in first public trialBBC NewsGoogle to test human-sounding robot assistantSan Francisco Chronicle
We've reached a critical point in the development of robots. As robots become more and more common in our everyday lives, scientists and researchers are beginning to ask if we're adequately ...
While the project involves animals and robots, its main focus is math: specifically, developing new algorithms -- the sets of rules that self-governing machines need to make sense of their environment ...
This type of therapy works best, however, if the
robot can smoothly interpret the child's own behavior -- whether he or she is interested and excited or paying attention -- during the therapy. Researchers ...
Personalized machine learning for robot perception of affect and engagement in autism therapyScience
It has played football with former US president Barack Obama and danced for German leader Angela Merkel, but Honda's ASIMO robot may have reached the end of the line.
SmokeBot is a robot developed to assist fire services and rescue units in deployments under critical conditions. It collects data about accident and disasters situations with extremely limited visibility, ...
Humans, we best watch out. Surgeons have used a robot to conduct eye surgery for the first time ever. The trial took place at Oxford's John Radcliffe hospital and ...
Oxford researchers just made a robot perform successful eye surgeries on patientsInternational Business Times, India EditionFirst trial of robot-assisted retinal surgery is successfulMedical Device NetworkRobots perform sight-saving eye operations BETTER than surgeons, reveals pioneering trialDaily Mail
In all, Barbadoro's music is composed using a robot orchestra that's capable of playing more than 50 acoustic instruments on command. These range from piano and organ to wind instruments and ...
The robot is the work of engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; By monitoring brain activity, it can detect in real-time if a person notices an error; Using an interface that measures muscle ...
We first spotted Keecker, a home robot with a built-in projector, at this year's CES in Las Vegas and dutifully filed it away under "fun idea, but it'll never make it to the high street" – but six months later one ...