MIT researchers have designed a new robotic underwater vehicle that can hover in place like a helicopter -an invaluable tool for deepwater oil explorers, marine archaeologists, oceanographers and others. The new craft, called Odyssey IV, is the latest in a series of small, inexpensive artificially intelligent submarines developed over the last two decades by the [...]
Researchers are developing a new technology that could give robots the visual capacity that they will monitor areas poorly lit and pilots vehicles in extreme environmental conditions. They plan to build a chip that eliminates the effects of an arbitrary illumination, allowing robotic vision to leave its current narrow limits and works well only in [...]
Several California companies and universities are developing a new generation of agricultural robots that could replace human labor for harvesting the fruit, a task that requires great precision and, until now, is too delicate for the machinery. The possible future of day laborers in California would be the dream of many employers: tireless, no [...]
The research is progressing rapidly on the creation of artificial life forms with the properties of biological life, including replication and the ability to eat. At the XV International Conference on the origin of life, held in Florence on 24/29 August 2008, a team led by Dr. Jack Szostak of Harvard Medical School, presented the [...]
In the footsteps of Steve Potter, professor of biomedical engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta (USA), a pioneer of robots controlled by neurons live (1), the University of Reading in the UK ‘s announce the development of a robot controlled entirely by neurons alive … rats. Note that although the press has [...]
Human consciousness and artificial consciousness. A couple fruitful by Jean-Paul Baquiast 04/08/2008 The purpose of this article is to give the reader a reflection on the conscience of artificial human consciousness, the same that we experience every day the virtues – and limitations – in our case. The need for such work is increasingly obvious [...]
Japanese researchers are working to realize a society where robots live with humans and perform simple tasks at home, like turning on the light, ordering the purchase or do the cleaning. Rapid technological development and the discovery of new building materials will allow, in just a few decades, there are robots able to understand, analyze [...]
The European Commission (EC) announced its intention to strengthen the links between university and company for the production of key components such as engines and gearboxes, to cope with Asian competition and avoid dependence on other regions of the world for the supply of these strategic elements.
Robots should not substitute for the hands of the sentient human therapist of massage schools , but a useful addition. Currently, according Hermano Igo Krebs from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) around 20 companies in electronic-mechanical assistance therapy – Therapy Robots – on the market. He predicts that in the foreseeable future will be [...]