This time last year, researchers at Bielefeld University in Germany uploaded a six-legged robot, nicknamed Hector, with a newly developed artificial intelligence software that ...
April 20, 2015 at 4:58 am by Ashley Allen
The Japanese scoff at the idea of banning killer robots, and instead are teaching them to sword-fight. Both robot and human combatants are only using foam swords in the ...
April 15, 2015 at 7:31 pm by Ashley Allen
Earlier this year, we brought you the story of a simulated worm brain that had been uploaded into a LEGO robot, and now it seems that The Green Brain Project is taking that ...
April 14, 2015 at 5:05 pm by Ashley Allen
AI is a big focus for companies like Facebook. Every time you load your news feed, some kind of algorithm is working hard to curate the best content for you. Have your closest ...
March 26, 2015 at 7:15 pm by Peter Donnell
Steve Wozniak, co-founder of Apple, has thrown his hat into the artificial intelligence scaremongering ring – along with Professor Stephen Hawking, father of Microsoft Bill ...
March 26, 2015 at 7:58 am by Ashley Allen
After they’ve conquered walking, running and stair climbing (sort of), the robots have one more way to get around once they’ve overrun the human race – by ...
February 8, 2015 at 6:56 pm by Ryan Simmons
Following grim portents from the likes of Elon Musk and Professor Stephen Hawking, Microsoft founder Bill Gates has also warned of the potential threat that artificial ...
January 30, 2015 at 10:58 am by Ashley Allen
Scientists from the University of Tübingen in Germany have made Mario, star of the Super Mario games, self-aware, able to think, talk, and learn. The project, called ‘Mario ...
January 25, 2015 at 1:58 pm by Ashley Allen
Crush. Kill. Destroy. The singularity – the super-evolution of sentient machines – is coming, according to Professor Stephen Hawking, and we should all be afraid. “The ...
December 4, 2014 at 10:15 pm by Ashley Allen
Telsa CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk believes artificial intelligence (AI) is like summoning the demon, and that humanity should tread with caution. We all know the AI ...
October 27, 2014 at 11:38 am by Jeremy Tate
I’m sure most of you have seen the Terminator movies, the effects of AI and what happened when SkyNet was put into service, sending the world into a downward spiral of ...
August 4, 2014 at 9:34 am by Peter Donnell
Meet hitchBOT, this very colourful robot is making its way across Canada by hitchhiking. Although this robot might be lacking some fashion sense, it does have a few tricks up ...
August 2, 2014 at 10:14 am by Dave Alcock
Cycorp look like any other research company, striving to create newer technologies in order to sell them to other companies and make life easier for people. However, the ...
July 6, 2014 at 9:36 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Before thinking that computers will soon rule the world, the Touring Test is merely a simple computer test which analyses a machine’s ability to exhibit intelligent ...
June 8, 2014 at 10:31 pm by Gabriel Roşu
Advances in AI technology are all around us, Google have their Google Now service, Apple have Siri, Microsoft have Cortana and that’s just the world of mobile phone ...
May 11, 2014 at 9:28 pm by Peter Donnell
