Software / A.I.

The robot called CB2, which has been developed by Japanese scientist, is used to study machine learning. The robot is developing social skills by examining humans. Robotics engineers, brain scientists, psychologists and experts from other fields are working on the project. The robot has been operational since two years. 51 muscles driven by air pressure, is used for movement of the robot, and since the start of its development, the robot has thought itself to move around the room with the help of humans. The robot’s developers hope that the machine will be able to speak basic sentences like a two year old child, in the next couple years. Visit […] Read More

British Scientists have created a robot navigation system that is based on visual recognition of a set of different objects in a particular scene,which enables the navigating robot recognize the location if it has been visited before. The robot does this by assigning a definitive description to the scene which consists of 1000 words, every two seconds. In addition, just like humans, the navigation system has the ability to combine a set of related object to each other, so that it recognizes that they might belong to the same group, such as the window, door and wheels of a car. These two principles enables the robot recognizing the previously visited […] Read More

Braintech’s Technology Running on Sony Smart Cameras Provides Compact Robot Vision System. MCLEAN, VA., Feb. 9, 2009. Braintech Inc. has certified its eVisionFactory Lite (eVF Lite) software to run on Sony Electronics’ new generation of Smart Cameras (XCI-SX100/XP), creating a compact vision system suitable for a broad spectrum of 2D and 3D robotic vision guidance applications in the automotive, pharmaceutical, food and beverage and general manufacturing industries. The new release of eVF Lite software coupled with Sony Smart Cameras allows original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), system integrators and manufacturers to combine a powerful industrial PC with a high-end CCD camera and Braintech’s Vision Guided Robotics (VGR) software in a small form […] Read More

Developing of the brain is highly interconnected with our senses. To simulate the natural brain development, the AI research needs to include sensory input and output constantly feeding information back and forth to the controlling mechanism. This is where the backbone of our intelligence lies. The article in New Scientist in the link below, is about such an experiment, performed at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen UK. The team made a robot that mimicked the biological evolution and improving its movements based on its past experiences. The robot uses a neural network in order to improve the evolutionary process. The team thinks that the technique will help dev eloping more […] Read More

It is now a reality that after decades of computer history, we are nowhere near to a real artificial intelligence. This is not like the computer programmers of the past were probably envisioning our age. The common thought a couple decades ago was, as soon as the computers have enough processing capability, the Artificial Intelligence would emerge naturally. Yet we still have to see a computer being even close to a human thinking ability. The truth is that the software which runs us, humans, is not something a today’s computer would be able to run…But still, there is a good example of such a computer, which can be found everywhere, […] Read More

PITTSBURGH: Computational neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon University have developed a computational model thatprovides insight into the function of the brain’s visual cortex and the information processing that enables people to perceive contours and surfaces, and understand what they see in the world around them. A type of visual neuron known as simple cells can detect lines, or edges, but the computation they perform is insufficient to make sense of natural scenes, said Michael S. Lewicki, associate professor in Carnegie Mellon’s Computer Science Department and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition. Edges often are obscured by variations in the foreground and background surfaces within the scene, he said, so […] Read More

Software development platform allows academics, hobbyists and commercial vendors to simplify the creation of robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.SANTA CLARA, Calif. Nov. 17, 2008, At the RoboDevelopment Conference and Expo in Santa Clara, Calif., Microsoft Corp. today announced the general availability of Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (Microsoft RDS), the newest version of its robotics programming platform. Microsoft RDS includes a simple programming model to support building asynchronous applications, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools to aid in application development, and tutorials and sample code to help developers get started. This is Microsoft’s third major release of Microsoft RDS and builds upon its previous versions, […] Read More

As the computer capabilities and as a result online computer games improve, the Artificial Itelligence software that is being used to manage these games is also evolving. In the annual Artificial Intelligence and Interactive Digital Entertainment Conference (AIIDE) held at Stanford University last month, the progress of and different aspects of AI has been discussed with the focus being on computer games. Various recent developments have been highlighted such as Façade’s interactive story and natural language processing, Forza’s neural net for autonomous driving and Nintendo’s universal speech recognition. Although there is considerable improvement in gaming software and more complexities are added all the time, we are still far away from […] Read More

Six computer programs will compete for the $100,000 and a gold medal Loebner prize in order to pass the Turing Test. The test was devised half a century ago by the great mathematician Alan Turing. The procedure of test is simply to be able to recognize a computer program from a human speaker, without knowing who behind the curtain is. If the computer program is able to deceive the human judges that they believe they are talking to a human, the computer program is considered successful. For more please see the link below. Reference: www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/oct/05/artificialintelligenceai Read More

The new software that has recently been introduced by Cognition Technologies, is aimed to teach the computer the “meanings” of words.This might just be the beginning of the web 3.0, before the 2.0 version is over. It also looks like a huge step paving the way toward the strong Artificial Intelligence. When the computers are able to recognize the meanings of words, with their billions of times more processing power than a human brain, it will enhance the quality of the internet searches. For more please click the link below. Reference: www.physorg.com/news140929129.html Read More