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Chatbots talking to each other -

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/robots-kind-mean-125509828.html   This more sounds like a customer service call to the telephone company:P Read More

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 that are able to “adapt” their thinking. Just like human brain, the chip is able to make a great deal of parallel processing at the same time combining memory and calculation. Researchers are saying that […] Read More

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 robots more efficient and inexpensive due to taking care of much of the computing in cloud. With the android control, the robot can also get sensor data from tablets or mobile devices, when the two […] Read More

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 and Nuance Communications. The development project will combine Watson’s abilities in Language and Machine Learning and Nuance’s speech recognition and Clinical Language understanding abilities. The forecast for the first available commercial version is around 18-24 […] Read More