News & Articles By Chris Draper
11/10/2015 / By Chris Draper
Facebook to develop A.I. system that plays game no other computer program can master
Computers trump people at various games, from chess to trivia. Nevertheless, there remains one pastime where humans still reign supreme: the game of Go. This supremacy may be in its twilight, however, as Facebook officials study Go in hopes of building an artificial brain and, in turn, a virtual assistant. Computers are able to win various […]
11/06/2015 / By Chris Draper
Robot revolution will completely change economy in 20 years, according to study
As robots rise, blue collar jobs will fall. The robotic revolution will completely change the global economy in the next 20 years as machines take on various tasks, from flipping burgers to assisted living, according to forecasts by financial firm Bank of America Merril Lynch (BAML). The robotic revolution may worsen social inequality as machines take […]
10/30/2015 / By Chris Draper
Artificial neurons enable robot to navigate like human
The human brain consists of a tapestry of neurons that simulate an internal model of the external world. With this mental picture, we are able to navigate through life’s terrain. Now, a robot has been given a similar cluster of virtual cells to help it move and respond to its environment. Researchers in Singapore simulated […]
10/20/2015 / By Chris Draper
“Smart skin” enables artificial limbs and robots to feel pain
Pain is an evolutionary blessing and curse. It’s a curse in the trivial sense that pain hurts. On the other hand, pain is a blessing because it signals an internal “red flag.” We’d be engaged in all sorts of dangerous activities without pain, whether it be staying out in the cold for too long or […]
10/20/2015 / By Chris Draper
Ant-like robots to colonize asteroid
China hopes to venture even farther into space with the use of tiny, ant-like robots. The machines would be better suited for space exploration than rovers and, more controversially, people. Officials tried to kindle the spirit of space exploration among scientists and engineers at a recent conference in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province. […]
10/15/2015 / By Chris Draper
A.I. robot scores higher than four year old on I.Q. test
The gap between human and artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming narrower and narrower. An A.I. system at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, dubbed ConceptNet, recently took an I.Q. test for children and scored higher than the average four year old, and the system is expected to become smarter. Machines are becoming better equipped at performing […]
10/13/2015 / By Chris Draper
Japan debuts world’s first laundry folding robot
Nobody enjoys folding laundry. It’s one of the most banal household chores. Fortunately, the days of creasing and folding may soon be over. Japan has recently unmasked the first laundry robot capable of washing, drying, folding and sort out washing. The laundry robot, dubbed laundroid, surpasses the functions of a basic washer and dryer. In […]
10/06/2015 / By Chris Draper
DARPA implanting computer chips in soldiers’ brains
Melding artificial silicon with breathing tissue is no longer fantasy peddled by science fiction writers. That is at least what New York Times best-selling author and journalist Annie Jacobsen reports. In her new book, The Pentagon’s Brain, Jacobsen argues that DARPA has been secretly implanting computer chips into soldiers’ brains in order to treat trauma […]
09/28/2015 / By Chris Draper
New robot set to explore toxic depths of Fukushima
One of the great difficulties facing the clean-up crew at the Fukushima site is locating the missing nuclear reactor fuel. Radiation levels at the power plant are too high for human investigation, and efforts to send robot probes into the nuclear reactors have proven fruitless. Consequently, researchers are now developing a new and improved robot […]
09/24/2015 / By Chris Draper
How to kill a Google robot
Horror movie enthusiasts delight in the idea of a zombie apocalypse. So much so that some people have promulgated “how to kill a zombie” guides on the internet. Although there is plenty of information on the web about how to kill zombies, there is little information about how to a kill a more imminent threat: […]
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