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How AI could end up writing novels in the next 10 years

Click on photo to start video. Here’s how AI could end up writing novels in the next 10 years, according to a computer scientist. Read more

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Disrupting death: Tech’s next big thing is immortality

Can technology help us achieve near-everlasting life? Entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley and beyond are attempting to disrupt what has long been seen as one of the only inevitabilities of life: death....

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Robots Can’t Hold Stuff Very Well, But You Can Help

Humanoid Robot torsos, legs, and arms are about where they need to be. But the robot hands are not quite where they need to be yet if we really want them to take all the jobs. The government is...

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Putin’s robo-nauts ‘to be in space by 2019’

Russia is planning to blast two robot astronauts into space to work on the international space station. Scientists have developed the advanced machines, named FEDOR, to conduct rescues — even though...

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AI-driven robot hand spent hundred years teaching itself to rotate cube

A reinforcement learning algorithm allows Dactyl to learn physical tasks by practicing them in a virtual-reality environment. Read more

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Researchers successfully transplant bioengineered lung

A research team at the University of Texas Medical Branch have bioengineered lungs and transplanted them into adult pigs with no medical complication. In 2014, Joan Nichols and Joaquin Cortiella from...

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This robotic hand mimics humans

Click on photo to start video. This robot can successfully mimic human hands. Read more

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Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency — DARPA

Opinions on #ArtificialIntelligence are a dime a dozen, unless you’re hearing from one of the field’s pioneers. Join us at D60, DARPA’s 60th anniversary symposium, to learn from Ron Brachman about how...

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I wanted to have a long running post where i will be tracking serious papers...

Also, loosely following technology that could be used to build a real working time machine. Anyone with an interest in time travel is welcome to participate. But, I have been watching tech news for...

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Ford’s Delivery Robot Walks On Two Legs Like A Human

Ford partnered with Agility Robotics to create Digit, a two-legged robot that could deliver your packages straight to your door in the future. Ford claims this robot can carry packages up to 40...

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Nanotechnologies to help in new cancer treatment strategy

A new project has been set up to develop an immunologic-based treatment strategy where cancer cells are reprogrammed to become ‘visible’ to the patient’s immune system. Read more

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IEA: Wind and solar capacity will overtake both gas and coal globally by 2024

A new report by the International Energy Agency has shown that wind and solar capacity will likely exceed coal and gas in less than five years. Wind and solar capacity will double over the next five...

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Europe moves ahead with Ariel exoplanet mission

The green light is given to the near-billion-euro space observatory that will study far-off worlds. Read more

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Azerbaijan’s drones owned the battlefield in Nagorno-Karabakh — and showed...

Drones will rule the battlefield. Until anti drone tech comes up to match it. I was picturing a anti drone system. One system that uses an old school radar anti aircraft gun, also equipped with a set...

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Plasmonic Nanomotors Move in New Directions

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Video Friday: Aquanaut Robot Takes to the Ocean

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos. Read more

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Get ready to dive into the Virtual Cave Worlds next Tuesday 11/17. Watch as 16 teams navigate the virtual environments with natural terrain and dynamic rock falls — all from the comfort of your home!...

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AI vision could be improved with sensors that mimic human eyes

Using a material that only responds to changing light like a human retina would, a new digital sensor could let robots or self-driving cars better observe moving scenes. Read more

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The Plan to Turn Scrapped Rockets Into Space Stations

Spent rockets are dangerous space trash, but they could be the future of living and working in orbit. Read more

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China Has Caught Up To U.S. In AI, Says AI Expert Kai-Fu Lee

Skeptical. But, wonder if will trigger major funding boost if true. Any credible list of influential books about tech from the last decade would include AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley and the...

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