Almost Human Series on Fox TV

Lately, I started to watch the Series on Fox TV, Almost Human, as I am utterly interested in anything that hits the screens involving robots. I am usually not very impressed with the way in which most of the futuristic movies envision robots and future technologies; however, this one really was absolutely different. I am […]

CM Labs and Partners Present Conclusive Experimental Results at I/ITSEC 2013

ORLANDO, Florida, December 3, 2013 — CM Labs recently participated in a study led by the UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory, which demonstrated that students trained in driving simulators obtained the same skills in the same time as students trained in actual vehicles. The study also revealed that commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software is in all […]

Human Brain Project of Europe

Human Brain Project of Europe

A major study for Artificial Intelligence and NeuroScience, called the Human Brain Project (HBP), which aims to replicate the human brain on supercomputer, has recently been approved in the EU. 87 universities and hundreds of scientists from leading research institutions across Europe will participate in the study, but the project has some important Japanese and North […]

Obama to back up Human brain study

In an effort to advance our understanding of the human brain, the Obama administration is planning a decade – long major undertaking for studying the human brain, according to a news published at New York Times. It is expected to be the equivalent of the Human genome Project done in genetics field, which paved the […]

Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality Conference

Wearable Computing and Augmented Reality Conference

TORONTO, ON – Internet-connected eyeglasses and similar technologies will soon be on the market, but their benefits and dangers are little understood. University of Toronto Engineering Professor Steve Mann hopes to change that at a groundbreaking conference at U of T in June 2013. Mann is a pioneering researcher in the fields of wearable computing […]

Rex: the First and Most Complete Bionic Man

Rex is an outcome and a breakthrough of the latest prosthetic and biomimicry technology that can imitate the abilities of human body and even surpasses them. With his many aspects Rex is an ordinary man except for the fact that he is a real world bionic man that can see, talk and communicate with people. […]

IBM Watson to be improved

IBM’s Watson AI program is a unique artificial intelligence computer system with a capability of grasping the slight differences in natural human language and answering the questions that are asked by human users. It has a wide range of data and can give answers even with evidences. It was specifically designed to answer the questions […]

Diego-san the Infant Robot by Machine Perception Lab.

His name is Diego-san and he is an android infant developed by the Institute for Neural Computation’s Machine Perception Laboratory, based in the UCSD division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit). The lab is funded by the National Science Foundation. For the hardware, the lab collaborated with Kokoro Co. Ltd. and […]

An in depth analysis of autonomous cars

An in depth analysis of autonomous cars

• Introduction Since the beginning of industrial revolution, people always dreamed of newer and better machines doing tasks that could not be done at the time. When we first got introduced to radio, we wondered if one day we would be able to also see those people speaking on the radio too. When we first […]

Robot boy, roboy will be born soon

Robot boy, roboy will be born soon

University of Zurich Artificial Intelligence Lab is trying to give birth to a humanoid robot boy, called Roboy, which is actuated by tendons mimicking human muscles. It is a smaller counterpart to Kenshiro Humanoid Robot,  about which we had made a news entry just recently. It is an upgrade version of the ECCE robot, which […]