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Polite Robot Overlords Will Be More Persuasive

5 March 2013 – 18:14 |

Baking cupcakes can be as much a matter of social interaction as it is a mechanical exercise. Never is this more true than when your kitchen partner is a robot. Their always-right, ego-deflating advice can …

Robot to Human: ‘Trust Me’

2 March 2013 – 13:26 |

In a crisis control center, several teams of firefighters in Montelibretti, Italy, used laptops to guide a robotic ground vehicle into a smoke-filled highway tunnel. Inside, overturned motorcycles, errant cars, and spilled pallets impeded the …

Sentry System Combines a Human Brain with Computer Vision

27 November 2012 – 11:35 |

Sentry duty is a tough assignment. Most of the time there’s nothing to see, and when a threat does pop up, it can be hard to spot. In some military studies, humans are shown to …

A Robot’s Body of Knowledge

16 November 2010 – 15:05 |

Early risers may think it’s tough to fix breakfast first thing in the morning, but robots have it even harder. Even grabbing a cereal box is a challenge for your run-of-the-mill artificial intelligence …