Experimental AI Powers Robot Army
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Neural networking pioneer Stephen Thaler is adapting his Creativity Machine theories to power self-organizing swarms of cockroach-size robots for the military. Is an artificial intelligence breakthrough on the horizon? By David Hambling.
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The Army has been using a new weapon that combines software with imagery beamed from satellites to make missions somewhat less unpredictable.
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Scientists from the University of the West of England (UWE) have invented a robot that can generate its own energy by catching flies.
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For your inner entomologist: Insects that appear plucked from a future in which artificial intelligence has triumphed over the natural world.
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Israel rolls out a tiny, Uzi-toting robot. But what happens when the armed equivalent of the Blue Screen of Death occurs? In Danger Room. In Danger Room.
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Korean robotics researchers develop ghostly software agents that move from one droid to another, taking possession of their mechanical bodies long enough to perform a task, before vanishing into the ether. Quinn Norton reports from Daejeon, Korea.
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ConnectR communications robot lets you see who's talking and follow them around the room.
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Flying wastebin wardroids a taste of things to come? Monster Pentagon contractors Boeing and SAIC jointly announced today that two of their latest offerings for the future robot armies of America have entered military testing early. The machines in question are a relatively dull lightweight groundcrawler job and a frankly splendid ducted-fan flying Dalek.â¦
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In the distant future, soldiers wage war from within building-sized robots that bristle with laser turrets, rocket launchers and thick armor. "MechAssault 2: Lone Wolf" lets you experience these fearsome battle mechs firsthand.
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After being used to explore Mars, make cars and clear bombs in Iraq, robots are moving into the home, ready to single-mindedly vacuum carpets, mow lawns and act like humanoids as industry targets the consumer market.
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The Pentagon predicts that robots will be a major fighting force in the American military in less than a decade.
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Artificial intelligence can make a game great; artificial stupidity can make gameplay unbearable. At Bungie Studios, game developers fine-tune the actions of battle-hungry marines and the nasty aliens who want to annihilate them.
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Blog: It's a stun gun on a robot. The military wants them, and probably so do a lot of 13-year old boys.
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Next week, three dozen robot cars bristling with lasers, radars, and antennas compete in Darpa's Urban Challenge race. If all goes as planned, it'll be as orderly as a procession of golf carts in downtown Sun City. But it could just as easily turn into a robot smash-up derby.
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Our video-game enemies are smart - and getting smarter. The artificial intelligence that guides in-game characters today leads to far more natural actions and realistic friends and foes than in the past. &quot;As graphics improvements top out, artificial intelligence will (drive) game innovation,&quot; says University of California-Santa Cruz professor Michael Mateas. A look at  AI evolution:
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To join DARPA airship-bot flotilla 12 miles up Fuelled by a seemingly inexhaustible stream of federal military/security research cash, the US flying-robot industry seems to produce fresh wonders every day.â¦
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TOKYO -- The new Japanese robot Miuro turns an iPod music player into a dancing boombox-on-wheels.