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Training Computers to Understand the Human Brain
October 5, 2012 Researchers use fMRI datasets to train a computer to predict the semantic category of an image originally viewed by five different ... > full story -
'Green Brain' Project to Create an Autonomous Flying Robot With a Honey Bee Brain
October 1, 2012 Scientists in the UK are embarking on an ambitious project to produce the first accurate computer models of a honey bee brain in a bid to advance our understanding of artificial intelligence, and how ... > full story -
Rehabilitation Robots Uncover Stroke Disabilities and Improve Care
October 1, 2012 Scientists have added a robot to help identify and customize post-stroke ... > full story -
Artificially Intelligent Game Bots Pass the Turing Test on Turing's Centenary
September 26, 2012 An artificially intelligent virtual gamer has won the BotPrize by convincing a panel of judges that it was more human-like than half the humans it competed against. The victory comes 100 years after ... > full story -
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Computers Match Humans in Understanding Art
September 26, 2012 Understanding and evaluating art has widely been considered as a task meant for humans, until now. Computer scientists tackled the question "can machines understand art?" The results were very ... > full story -
Language Use Is Simpler Than Previously Thought, Study Suggests
September 25, 2012 For more than 50 years, language scientists have assumed that sentence structure is fundamentally hierarchical, made up of small parts in turn made of smaller parts, like Russian nesting dolls. But a ... > full story -
Intuitive Visual Control Provides Faster Robot Operation
September 25, 2012 Using a novel method of integrating video technology and familiar control devices, a research team is developing a technique to simplify remote control of robotic ... > full story -
Wearable Sensor System Automatic Maps Building While Wearer Is Moving
September 24, 2012 Researchers have built a wearable sensor system that automatically creates a digital map of the environment through which the wearer is ... > full story -
Using Precisely-Targeted Lasers, Researchers Manipulate Neurons in Worms' Brains and Take Control of Their Behavior
September 24, 2012 In the quest to understand how the brain turns sensory input into behavior, Harvard scientists have crossed a major threshold. Using precisely-targeted lasers, researchers have been able to take over ... > full story -
Sociable Trash Box: Proxemics in Dynamic Interactions
September 24, 2012 Researchers in Japan are using "robotic social trash boxes" to investigate interactions between humans and robots for improving robot-to-human ... > full story
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