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The first machine to study the Dance Dance Revolution video game now...
by Emerging Technology from the arXiv March 28, 2017 Dance Dance Revolution is one of the classic video games of the late 20th century. A testament to its success, novelty, and longevity is that it is...
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Relay Robots Now Working for FedEx
Frederick Smith, founder, chairman, president, and CEO of FedEx, unveiled the news today that FedEx is employing multiple Relay robots at its TechConnect repair center in Collierville, TN and a FedEx...
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There’s a big problem with AI: even its creators can’t explain how it works
Keith Rankin by Will Knight April 11, 2017 Last year, a strange self-driving car was released onto the quiet roads of Monmouth County, New Jersey. The experimental vehicle, developed by researchers at...
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Scientists Have an Experiment to See If the Human Mind Is Bound to the...
Perhaps one of the most intriguing and interesting phenomena in quantum physics is what Einstein referred to as a “spooky action at a distance” — also known as quantum entanglement. This quantum effect...
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Meow Generator
I experimented with generating faces of cats using Generative adversarial networks (GAN). I wanted to try DCGAN, WGAN and WGAN-GP in low and higher resolutions. I used the CAT dataset (yes this is a...
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And so even when the experiment’s official results are known, in 2019, they will reveal little — and far less than they could have — about the effects that universal cash payments could have on income...
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The data that transformed AI research—and possibly the world
In 2006, Fei-Fei Li started ruminating on an idea. Li, a newly-minted computer science professor at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, saw her colleagues across academia and the AI industry...
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Neuroreality: The New Reality is Coming. And It's a Brain Computer Interface.
With the release of the Oculus Rift in March 2016, the age of virtual reality (VR) truly began. VR tech had been generating buzz since the 1990s, but the Rift was the first high-end VR system to reach...
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The Big Problem With Self-Driving Cars Is People
Editor's Pick The engineers who built routers for the fledgling ARPANET in 1969 never dreamed that networking technology would upend journalism. Nor did anyone guess that cellular communication would...
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If you could ‘design’ your own child, would you?
Scientists in Portland, Ore., just succeeded in creating the first genetically modified human embryo in the United States, according to Technology Review. A team led by Shoukhrat Mitalipov of Oregon...
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Video Friday: Boston Dynamics, Inflatable Robots, and Japan's Space Ball
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months;...
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To get computers to think like humans, we need a new A.I. paradigm, one that places “top down” and “bottom up” knowledge on equal footing. Bottom-up knowledge is the kind of raw information we get...
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Storing Data in DNA Brings Nature into the Digital Universe
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Humanity is producing data at an unimaginable rate, to the point that storage...
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A New Theory Explains How Consciousness Evolved
Ever since Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, evolution has been the grand unifying theory of biology. Yet one of our most important biological traits, consciousness, is rarely...
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The World's First Autonomous Ship Will Set Sail In 2018
A Norwegian container ship called the Yara Birkeland will be the world’s first electric, autonomous, zero-emissions ship. With a capacity of up to 150 shipping containers, the battery-powered ship will...
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Amazon Robotics Challenge 2017 won by Australian budget bot
Cartman - a budget-priced robot from Australia - has triumphed in an annual contest to create a machine that can identify, pick up and stow warehouse goods. The bot was designed from scratch to take...
View ArticleBringing Silicon Back To The Valley – Silicon Valley Robotics – Medium
Lemnos has gone from being a maverick hardware accelerator to a powerhouse VC firm, bringing to market a whole range of enterprise robotics and hardware startups, like Airware, Revolution Robotics,...
View ArticleHow I evaluate early stage companies
I’ve decided to open source my evaluation criteria for seed stage companies. This due diligence outline has evolved over my last 5 and a half years in venture investing and will continue to evolve. To...
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To build a smarter chatbot, first teach it a second language
mr. tech by Will Knight July 31, 2017 From Alexa and Siri to countless chatbots and automated customer support lines, computers are gradually learning to talk. The only trouble is they are still very...
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Paul Ryan Taped With Russian Ambassador On GOP Money Laundering
Exclusive: Sources with links to the intelligence community now confirm that a tape exists of Paul Ryan, the Speaker of the House, discussing how Russian money could be funneled without detection to...
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