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		<title>Robotic AI on par with a puppy developed</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2008 22:37:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers working on the COSPAL project have developed a new robotic AI that they claim is the most advanced of its kind. They have created a robot that, using both learning neural AI techniques and traditional rules-based AI, can be trained like a small child or puppy. The robot has already been able to figure [...]]]></description>
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		<title>iCub baby robot to be taught to speak</title>
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		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Researchers at Plymouth University will soon begin experiments to find out if a humanoid baby robot, called iCub, can be taught to talk. Over the next four years, robotics experts and language development specialists will work together to help iCub &#8220;grow up.&#8221; Some typical experiments include inserting objects of various shapes into corresponding holes in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Robot guided by MRI performs brain surgery</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:51:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Surgeons and robotics experts at the University of Calgary have developed neuroArm, a robot which is capable of performing brain surgery within the powerful magnet of an MRI. Being able to work within such a powerful magnetic field is a first for robots. Most brain surgeries are performed with their assistance, but so far no [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Absolut Quartet &#8211; rubber ball-powered, music-making contraption</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 24 Feb 2008 18:35:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Absolut Quartet has to be one of the coolest toys we&#8217;ve played with on the &#8216;net in a long time. First, let&#8217;s dive into what the thing actually is. The Absolut Quartet is &#8220;a multi-instrumental music-making machine combining art and technology to create the equivalent of a classic human quartet. With a twist. It [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New system uses gestures to control a robot</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:26:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tsuyoshi Horo, an engineer at Tokyo University, has developed a system that allows a person to control a robot using simple hand and body gestures. Currently embedded in a stool-like robot (complete with wheels on the bottom to move it around), the system uses a circular array of cameras to detect motion in the robot&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>2029 &#8211; the year machines match man in intelligence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 06:09:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[That&#8217;s right, we could have a real Terminator on our hands by 2029, at least according to Ray Kurzweil, a leading US inventor. We&#8217;re not necessarily talking killing machines here, but Kurzweil believes that by that time machines will achieve human-level artificial intelligence. The engineer predicts that machines and humans will eventually merge through devices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Animal testing to be replaced with robots</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 16 Feb 2008 21:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joel Levin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humans testing hazardous chemicals on live animals could soon turn into robots testing hazardous chemicals on laboratory-grown cells. The advantages of using robots for the tests involve greatly increasing the number of tests that can be performed daily, in addition to greatly lowering the costs because of the exclusion of animal subjects. Identifying toxic chemicals [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NASA testing underwater robot, practicing for Jupiter&#8217;s moon Europa</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Alex</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NASA has begun testing the Environmentally Non-Disturbing Under-ice Robotic ANtarctiC Explorer, or ENDURANCE, in Wisconsin&#8217;s Lake Mendota in preparation for a trip to Europa, one of Jupiter&#8217;s moons. ENDURANCE is a NASA-funded project designed to make 3D maps of underwater environments, take microbial samples, and gather other data in deep waters. Following the tests in [...]]]></description>
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