O, Robot. Artificial Intelligence. The Singularity. Boeing + Bigelow Aerospace. Singularity-Emergence A.I. Artificial Intelligence. Singularity-Emergence A.I. AI ☆ Team Curated. Technology Review: The Authority on the Future of Technology. Startup Makes 'Wireless Router for the Brain' Optogenetics has been hailed as a breakthrough in biomedical science—it promises to use light to precisely control cells in the brain to manipulate behavior, model disease processes, or even someday to deliver treatments.
But so far, optogenetic studies have been hampered by physical constraints. The technology requires expensive, bulky lasers for light sources, and a fiber-optic cable attached to an animal—an encumbrance that makes it difficult to study how manipulating cells affects an animal’s normal behavior. Now Kendall Research, a startup in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is trying to free optogenetics from these burdens. It has developed several prototype devices that are small and light and powered wirelessly. The devices would allow mice and other small animals to move freely. How Networks Of Biological Cells Solve Distributed Computing Problems.
Distributed computing is all the rage these days.
The idea is to break down computational tasks into convenient chunks and distribute them across a network to a number of computers. The benefits are clear, such as easy, on-demand access to huge computing resources. The conventional way to think about these systems is as independent Turing machines connected by a network that allows them to exchange large messages.
This so-called ‘message passing model’ certainly applies to much of the distributed computing that takes place on the internet; projects such as the SETI@home and the Einstein @home programs. Yet2com Blog. AI. Watson's New Job: IBM Salesman. IBM’s Watson supercomputer reached a milestone in artificial intelligence last February when it beat two Jeopardy!
Champions. Millions watched, and while some experts dismissed it as a publicity stunt, IBM said Watson would soon be helping doctors diagnose illness, and hinted at talks with gadget companies about Watson helping consumers with questions. As IBM prepares to celebrate the first anniversary of the televised contest on February 16, though, it is not yet offering the question-answering system for sale. Although limited trials using Watson technology are underway in health and financial services businesses, the AI prodigy is having its biggest impact by pulling in new customers for existing business products—as IBM persuades them to organize their data into formats that an AI like Watson can better understand. Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: Chatbot NetLogo Model. Produced for the book series "Artificial Intelligence"; Author: W.
J. NANOBOTICS. Universcale. Engineering. Robotics. Robot R&D, Production. Robot Hand Copies Your Movements, Mimics Your Gestures (video. Robot see, robot do. 2010 may go down in history as the year of gesture recognition.
We’ve seen it in TVs, we have it in our video games (thanks, Kinect!) , and now we have it in our robots. The Biological Cybernetics Lab at Tsukuba University, headed by Kiyoshi Hoshino, recently demonstrated a robotic arm that can mimic the position and movements of your own. Magnetic levitation. Magnetic levitation, maglev, or magnetic suspension is a method by which an object is suspended with no support other than magnetic fields.
Magnetic pressure is used to counteract the effects of the gravitational and any other accelerations. Earnshaw's theorem proves that using only ferromagnetic or paramagnetic materials it is impossible to stably levitate against gravity; however, servomechanisms, the use of diamagnetic materials, superconduction, or systems involving eddy currents allow to achieve that. In some cases the lifting force is provided by magnetic levitation, but there is a mechanical support bearing little load that provides stability. Arduino - HomePage. How Watson works: a conversation with Eric Brown, IBM Research Manager. Dr.
Eric Brown, IBM Research Manager (Image: IBM) For nearly two years IBM scientists have been working on a highly advanced Question Answering (QA) system, codenamed “Watson.” The scientists believe that the computing system will be able to understand complex questions and answer with enough precision, confidence, and speed to compete in the first-ever man vs. machine Jeopardy! Competition, which will air on February 14, 15 and 16, 2011. SpillTrend. Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: Chatbot NetLogo Model. Watson and the future of AI. Radical roboticist Hans Moravec, former director of the Mobile Robot Laboratory at Carnegie Mellon University, expanded our imagination with his vision of future robots as our “mind children.”
Now he’s revolutionizing industry with his enhanced-vision mobile robots. We asked him to help us put Watson in perspective. Full disclosure: Ray Kurzweil is on the board of directors of Seegrid Corporation. — Ed. Let’s take a moment to lift our noses from the grindstone and reassess the future. Apropos is IBM’s upcoming artificial intelligence spectacular, pitting “Watson” (a 90-server, 80 teraflops, 15 terabyte supercomputer, doing natural language disambiguation and question answering from a huge mixed-format internal database — no Internet), against the two top previous human winners of the game show Jeopardy! In 1997, IBM’s supercomputer Deep Blue defeated world chess champion Garry Kasparov, in a world first.
Fully intelligent machines will change the world.