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Scientists at University of California Irvine and San Diego is working on a project that will help identifying the decision making mehcanisms of the brain. The research involves monitoring decision making ablities of rodents during arbitrary change of food reward locations, where the animal needs to make new decisions and adapt to their new environment. In other words, the ultimate goal is to learn more […] Read More
The GPS devices are widely used today in our cars to help us find our way. The next generation of help is on the way, and it is a far more complex assistant than a GPS. Designed and developed by Volkswagen of America and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (SENSEable City Lab and Personal Robots Group of Media Lab), AIDA stands for Affective, Intelligent Driving […] Read More
Chatbots can reduce the workload of humans, where it can deal with uncomplicated matters in an autonomous manner, by responding to real questions from humans. Many have been used so far especially on the web, such as FAQ sections of websites. The new Pandorabots Spellbinder service, by Pandorabots Inc. is able to create such chatbot characters automatically and very fast, just by “listening” to transcripts […] Read More
Although not particularly for robotics software, but for all types of software in general, a news worth noting appeared last week in Technology Review, which reported a recent project done by MIT Computer Scientists. In short, the team developed a software that can find certain type of software bugs and fix them. The new software called clearview, speeds up the bug fixing process to within […] Read More
A new feature that has been introduced in certain recent Ford models, which enables the car to park itself. It does so first by scanning both sides of the road and determines the available spots. Then by using its ultrasonic sensors, it continuously measures the distance, at the same time moving the car back and forwards, at the same time managing the steering. This looks […] Read More
To develop some kind of common sense for AI has always been the ultimate goal of AI research, ever since the first computers appeared about 60 years ago. Recently the increase in computing power reaching to sufficient levels, along with a greater number of new research projects on the subject are paving the way for such goals to be achieved. One such project has recently […] Read More
One of the biggest challenges in building autonomous cars is the safety issue which need to be resolved completely before a single autonomous car hits the road. Events such as DARPA grand challenge are designed to improve the capabilities of such vehicles. A recent story in cnet.com talks about designing safe autonomous cars, which have collision avoidance capabilities incorporated into them. The inspiration came from […] Read More
According to a report published in Current Biology, scientists are able to tell what number or how many dots a person has just seen, by measuring the brain activity with fMRI. The study may also help to discover how the brain makes more sophisticated calculations, according to the researchers. Reference: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/09/090924123306.htm Read More
Willow Garage, a robotics company in Palo Alto California, have created a robot that asks for human help for the objects that it can not recognize by itself. As far as developing the AI, it may look like getting around the real problem a little, instead of solving it, however as far as the end result it seems that it will function in a pretty […] Read More
The humanoid robot called I-Cub is a project based in several research institutions in europe, which aims to study human intelligence at the level of a baby child. Through realistic interaction with its environment, the researchers aim to develop algorithms that will enable autonomous intelligent reasoning abilities. One of the goals of the project is not just to study AI, but also to learn about […] Read More