Robotics / AI news around the web
AI Founder Blasts Modern Research
(Wired) Artificial intelligence pioneers point to advances made in law, medicine and other arenas as proof of the vitality of their work. But Marvin Minsky, co-founder of the field, calls AI research "brain-dead."
Submitted on May 13, 2003 by tormod
New robot face smiles and sneers
(New Scientist) K-bot has a feminine face and is capable of 28 facial movements, including smiling, sneering, furrowing her brow and arching her eyebrows.
Submitted on Feb 17, 2003 by tormod
Man and machine hit stalemate
(Nature) Russian grandmaster Garry Kasparov and top chess computer Deep Junior ended their six-match battle in a draw last week.
Submitted on Feb 11, 2003 by tormod
Robots Will Soon Feel Human Angst
(ABC News) Researchers at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn., are working to develop a robot that can respond to human emotions.
Submitted on Jan 4, 2003 by tormod
Robotic Balloon Probe Could Pierce Venus's Deadly Clouds
(Space.com) NASA contractor Global Aerospace recently developed a hybrid satellite-balloon. The contraption, dubbed the StratoSail, was originally conceived as a way to control the paths of weather balloons floating at the edge of space.
Submitted on Nov 15, 2002 by tormod
Smarter Aibo is less robot than dog
(Washington Times) Aibo (www.aibo.com), a battery-powered pooch that acts like a dog and appeals to the gadget-mad, has been around awhile. It just got more doglike, and maybe a bit eerie. There is enough engineering and technology in the thing that it begins to sneak up on the science-fiction dream of robots that you could, well, hang out with.
Submitted on Oct 25, 2002 by tormod
Winged Robot Could Be Potential Disaster Tool
(DisasterRelief) When most people think of the common fly, words like nuisance and pest spring to mind. However, when Ron Fearing and his team of engineers at the University of California at Berkeley consider the small insect, futuristic visions of microrobots zipping through the air take shape.
Submitted on Oct 24, 2002 by tormod
Pyramid robot hits snag
(CAIRO, Egypt (AP)) Researchers are planning more exploration after their high-tech probe into an ancient pyramid Tuesday solved one puzzle and introduced another.
Submitted on Sep 17, 2002 by Noah
