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Post-doc position in Neural Information...
From the Neuro-IT mailing list The Department of Neural Information Processing at the University of Ulm invites applications for a post-doc (or PhD student) position to begin November 1 2006, or later. The Institute for Neural Information Processing at the University of Ul... Read more ...
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
Via Thinking Meat Ripley is a robot designed by Deb Roy of the Cognitive Machines Group at MIT's Media Lab. This robot was designed for learning about the environment by moving and touching objects in it. The underlying theoretical framework is the " Grounded Situation Model ".... Read more ...
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e-CIRCUS
Via Science Daily The project e-Circus (Education through Characters with emotional Intelligence and Role-playing Capabilities that Understand Social interaction) aims to develop synthetic characters that interact with pupils in a virtual school, to sup... Read more ...
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Virtual bots teach each other
From New Scientist Tech "Robots that teach one another new words through interaction with their surroundings have been demonstrated by UK researchers. The robots, created by Angelo Cangelosi and colleagues at Plymouth University, UK, currently exist only as compute... Read more ...
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The Huggable
Via Siggraph2006 Emerging Technology website The Huggable is a robotic pet developed by MIT researchers for therapy applications in children's hospitals and nursing homes, where pets are not always available. The robotic teddy has full-body sensate skin and smooth, qu... Read more ...
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The speed of sight
Via Medgadget According to estimates by University of Pennsylvania researchers, information transmission of the human retina is as fast as a regular Ethernet connection: Using an intact retina from a guinea pig, the researchers recorded spikes of electrical impulses from ga... Read more ...
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Robot Doppelgänger
Hiroshi Ishiguro, director of the Intelligent Robotics Lab at Osaka University in Japan, has created a robot clone of himself. The robot, dubbed “Geminoid HI-1”, looks and moves exactly like him, and sometimes takes his place in meetings and classes. Link to Wired article on Ishigu... Read more ...
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BACS project
BACS (Bayesian Approach to Cognitive Systems), is an Integrated Project under the 6th Framework Program of the European Commission which has been allocated EUR 7.5 million in funding. The BACS project brings together researchers and commercial companies working on artificial perc... Read more ...
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Computers learn common sense
Via The Engineer , July 11, 2006 BBN Technologies has been awarded $5.5 million in funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency ( DARPA ) for the first phase of "Integrated Learner," which will learn plans or processes after being shown a single example. The goal is to comb... Read more ...
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Rheo Knee
Via KurzweilAI.net MIT's Media Lab researchers have developed a prosthetic "Rheo Knee" that uses AI to replicate the workings of a biological human joint and "bio-hybrids," surgical implants that allow an amputee to control an artificial leg by thinking.. Link Read more ...