'Artificial life' comes step closer
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Researchers at Rockefeller University make small synthetic vesicles that resemble a crude kind of biological cell.
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Artificial intelligences could soon be living and learning inside online worlds such as Second Life.
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A military project aimed at building smarter robots has given researchers the wheels they need to make their automatons go.
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In Japan, a 28,000-square-foot homage to the automaton begins the archiving of man's fascination with robots. Take a look at some of the specimens. By Brian Ashcraft from Wired magazine.
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From lifelike Einstein robot that can recognize you to a hand that can pack a Popeye punch, Wired NextFest brings more glimpses of a future ....
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Scientists develop a device thousands of times smaller than a human hair that can turn radio waves into sound.
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Spacecraft could soon take advantage of a sophisticated math algorithm that simulates evolution to find the best paths to distant planets and comets.
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Synthetic biology turns a bacteriophage into an E. coli eliminator.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs and cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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Semiconductor chips that can manage a good bit of their own upkeep are moving closer to reality.
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Researchers developing robotic lobsters, flies, dogs cockroaches believe that machines inspired by biology will be able to operate in places where today's robots cannot go.
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Within 50 years, biotech will suffuse everyday life just as computer technology does now -- so says Freeman Dyson.  It's not new, but the futurist describes his vision, from DIY genetic engineering for pigeon fanciers and schoolchildren to green industrial.
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AI vendor is set to show how it will use humans in virtual worlds to update the capabilities of its software.
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Scientists are nearer the creation of tiny artificial blood vessels after growing miniscule tubes out of stem cells.
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U.S. physicists have coaxed tiny  artificial atoms into communicating in an advance that may lead  to super-fast quantum computers, the researchers said on  Wednesday.
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Superdense arrays of silicon electrodes will bring scientists closer to an artificial retina that approximates normal vision.
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Scientists capture a beam of light and make it reappear elsewhere, potentially leading to advances in computing.