Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 2396
Dec 6, 2015
Could RoboBees Ever Take the Place of Real Bees?
Posted by Bryan Gatton in category: robotics/AI
Researchers are developing tiny flying robots that can do many things bees do — and even some things that they can’t. Could they serve as stand-ins for the real insects?
Dec 6, 2015
Beyond the Boundary — The Greatest Challenge: Manned Interstellar Travel
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
By Andreas M. Hein in Artificial Intelligence and Science Fiction. Beyond the Boundary: Exploring the Science and Culture of Interstellar Spaceflight.
Dec 6, 2015
From AI and data science to cryptography: Microsoft researchers offer 16 predictions for ’16
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, science
Dec 4, 2015
Leonardo da Vinci robot wows Tokyo crowd
Posted by Sean Brazell in category: robotics/AI
Watch the video Leonardo da Vinci robot wows Tokyo crowd on Yahoo News. Disaster relief humanoids on display at the International Robot Exhibition 2015, but Leonardo da Vinci steals the show. Jim Drury reports.
Dec 4, 2015
20 Million Driverless Cars May Be On The Road By 2025
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Dec 3, 2015
I visited one of the largest megachurches in the US as an atheist Transhumanist presidential candidate — here’s what happened
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: geopolitics, life extension, robotics/AI, transhumanism
A new article on visiting Alabama’s largest megachurch on the Immortality Bus and discussing transhumanism. Make sure to check out the 2-min YouTube video embedded in the story:
The pastor considered whether robots could be saved.
Dec 3, 2015
The future of intelligence: Cambridge University launches new centre to study AI and the future of humanity
Posted by Andreas Matt in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
The University of Cambridge is launching a new research centre, thanks to a £10 million grant from the Leverhulme Trust, to explore the opportunities and challenges to humanity from the development of artificial intelligence.
Dec 3, 2015
Cambridge University launches £10 million AI research centre, to ‘move away from science fiction’
Posted by Amnon H. Eden in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
What will happen when machines become smarter than us?
It used to be a question purely for science fiction writers, but with experts predicting human-level AI could become a reality within this century, it’s become a pressing issue for scientists and philosophers, as they try to predict how our world will change.
Keen not to be left behind, Cambridge University has been at the forefront of the issue, and today announced the launch of a brand new centre, dedicated to answering the very real questions once seen solely as the preserve of Doctor Who or Stanley Kubrick’s HAL.
