IBM’s Watson can bring new commercial opportunities
According to IBM’s VP for new technologies, Watson computer’s Jeopardy championship earlier this year can open the door to new possibilities in many commercial fields. As part of its first…
The working mechanism of IBM Watson
In February of this year, IBM’s new machine called Watson had beaten human Champions in the game of Jeopardy. Considering the fact that the questions in Jeopardy are asked in…
IBM shows human brainlike chip possible
Working on a six year research project funded by DARPA, and involving about a hundred researchers, IBM has just announced that they have reached an important milestone in making chips…
Google wants to direct robots with Android and ROS
In Google’s I/O conference last week, Google launched ROSjava, a ROS (Robot Operating System) framework in Java which is also compatible with Android devices. Using the application could make the…
Jeopardy Champ Watson to help in Healthcare Industry
IBM’s Watson computer, which became famous last month by beating human champions in Jeopardy, will be commercialized in Healthcare industry, according to a recent research and development agreement between IBM…
AI to race against humans in Jeopardy
It is very well known that the computers are able to beat humans in games such as chess, where the brute force calculation of the probable positions into the depth…
Computer learns language and facts by itself
Carnegie Mellon University Researchers, under the funding of Google and DARPA, and benefitting from the internet database provided by Yahoo, are working on a self learning computer algorithm that is…
Teaching a robot toddler
I-cub, a project run in Eurpoe with participation from many Universities across the continent, is one of the most popular robot platforms in the world. The robot is taught how…
Swarm Robotics Control Simplified
Using Microsoft Surface software, which can be described as an interactive tabletop, a system to control swarm robots has been developed at MIT. Getting data from various resources, processing them…