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Archive for the ‘education’ Category
Robots Will Rule Men
Posted by Eric on August 30th, 2011
Posted in AI, autonomous, defense, domestic, education, ethics, featured, future, research, roboticists 
Tags: Articlect, Cosmist, singularity, Terrans 
No Comments »Your kids’ new robotic overlords
Posted by Eric on July 12th, 2010
Interesting and informative article about robots teaching humans. South Korea is employing hundreds of robots as teacher aides and classroom playmates. One concern that will resonate with readers of this website was voiced by Mitchel Resnick, head of the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the Media Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, who commented, “I worry that [...]
World’s first robot safety film?
Posted by Eric on July 8th, 2010
The chaps at Willow Garage have put together a safety film featuring their PR2 robot. They have a lot of firsthand experience and observations involved with what amounts to large, heavy, powerful, moving machinery around people. Very insightful, it will probably become required training for people working with or purchasing domestic robots. via [PlasticPals]
Posted in autonomous, domestic, education, milestone, roboticists, video Tags: pr2, safety, training, video, willow garage No Comments »Myon robot to teach us about language origination
Posted by Eric on June 28th, 2010
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Supercomputer endowed with linguistic algorithms answers humans’ questions in realtime
Posted by Eric on June 18th, 2010
IBM’s “WATSON” has encyclopedic knowledge and is being taught the nuances of English to the point that it can immediately interpret a question and answer it in a format consistent with the question. It sounds easy enough, every robot from every science fiction tv show for the past 60 years was able to respond [...]
Posted in AI, computers, education, entertainment, pop culture, video Tags: AI, conversation, IBM, linquistic, supercomputer, WATSON No Comments »Attack of the robot dinosaurs!
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
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Posted in AI, biomimetic, biped, education, entertainment Tags: dinosaur, exhibit, kids No Comments »Play “Mars Escape” to help MIT Media Lab develop robots that collaborate with humans
Posted by Eric on June 17th, 2010
There has been a lot of chatter lately regarding the coming trend of using games for work, using games to get people to accomplish tasks. This is one such game, designed to gather data as people interact, which can be used later for modeling actual robot behavior. “The MIT researchers are encouraging as many people [...]
Posted in AI, autonomous, education, future, games, research, space, study, testing Tags: behavior model, game, mars, model, play No Comments »Robot gets angry, frightens human children away… kind of
Posted by Eric on June 10th, 2010
Autonomous Robotinho gives museum tour to German schoolchildren. It’s all fun and games until his path gets blocked – watch what happens at 2:44 So kids, robots can be helpful friends, just don’t get in their way. EVER. From [botjunkie]
Posted in AI, autonomous, domestic, education Tags: Deutschland, museum, Robotingo, roomba, tourguide No Comments »
