According to the statement, researchers at Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) have created two dialog agents with a new capability — the ability to negotiate. The experiment’s goal was to show that these dialog agents with differing goals can manage ...
Read More »In China, a robot has started delivering packages to people
Jingdong, or JD.com, China’s second-biggest e-commerce company after Alibaba, sent robots to deliver items for the first time yesterday (June 18), on the last day of a two-week-long shopping bonanza that recorded sales of around $17.6 billion, according to a ...
Read More »Messing with robots’ self-confidence could prevent the AI apocalypse
In every sci-fi depiction of an eventual robot apocalypse, the mechanical monstrosities move with cold, calculated precision, dispatching or enslaving humanity with a complete lack of sympathy and no second guessing. But what if robots could actually worry? What if ...
Read More »Soft 3D-Printed Robot Is Agile Even on Sand and Rocks
The robot’s ability to reliably walk across different types of surfaces is unique, and so is the fact that its elaborately shaped legs were created with a 3D printer, according to the engineers who developed the bio-inspired creature, Joinfo.com reports ...
Read More »Russia unveils Terminator-style robot amid World War 3 fears
Christened FEDOR – Final Experimental Demonstration Object Research – designers claim the futuristic sharpshooter would initially be deployed during search and rescue missions, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Star. “FEDOR was designed as an android able to replace humans ...
Read More »Disney brings humanoid robots to park
Disney Enterprises Inc. announced it has filed a U.S. patent for a 3D printed, interactive, soft robot, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Fox News. The application describes the new “soft body” robot to be built specifically for “physical interaction with ...
Read More »Toyota Wants to Use Robots for Keeping Elderly Moving
Japanese automakers are looking beyond the industry trend to develop self-driving cars and turning their attention to robots to help keep the country’s rapidly graying society on the move, Joinfo.com reports with reference to U.S. News. Toyota said it saw ...
Read More »Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs
The industry most affected by automation is manufacturing. For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent, according to a new paper by the economists, Daron Acemoglu ...
Read More »Teaching Robots How To Trust
Robots have begun to play an increasing role in life and death scenarios, from rescue missions to complex surgical procedures. But the question of trust has largely been a one-way street. Should we trust robots with our lives? According to ...
Read More »Stephen Hawking warns without a ‘world government’ technology could wipe out humanity
The physicist, who has spoken out about the dangers of artificial intelligence in the past, says a ‘world government’ could be our only hope, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Mail Online. He says our ‘logic and reason’ could be the ...
Read More »Watch This Piano-Playing Robot Virtuoso
You know those deep feelings of resentment you have towards your parents for the countless hours they made you practice the piano? Arpeggio, a piano-playing robot that could easily perform at Carnegie Hall, is the over-achieving childhood musician your parents secretly always ...
Read More »Scientists Are Building Humanoid Robots Using Skin Grafts
Scientists will eventually be creating part-human, part-robot test subjects. That’s what a pair of biomedical researchers at the University of Oxford are hoping to do, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Futurism. In a report published in Science Robotics, Pierre-Alexis Mouthuy and Andrew Carr ...
Read More »Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently
If someone asks you to hand them a wrench from a table full of different sized wrenches, you’d probably pause and ask, “which one?” Robotics researchers from Brown University have now developed an algorithm that lets robots ask for clarification ...
Read More »Japan calls for smarter probe robots to deal with the Fukushima nuclear site
Now the head of decommissioning for the damaged Fukushima nuclear plant said on Thursday that the company’s robots were not able to get close enough to the core area, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Daily Mail Online. Robots have to ...
Read More »Incredible ping pong-playing robot earns Guinness World Record
Guinness World Records has recognized a robot with a unique ability: a machine called FORPHEUS is officially the “first robot table tennis tutor,” Joinfo.com reports with reference to Fox news. The contraption, which holds a ping pong paddle and can ...
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