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Miniature human nervous systems grown in cultures

support@asimoblog.com — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 04:08:00 GMT

UPenn researchers have succeeded in growing cultures of mulitple human axions.

Adiabatic quantum computing technique may provide neuralesque solution.

support@asimoblog.com — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:16:00 GMT

Encoding data into the environment may allow scientists a new type of control over quantum computing processes.

Robotic Disney Parks coming in 2013.

support@asimoblog.com — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 03:01:00 GMT

South Korea to build robot theme parks (The State)
Forget Disneyland. South Korea hopes to draw interest to its burgeoning robotics industry with robot theme parks. The Commerce Ministry announced a proposal Tuesday to build two parks by 2013 for $1.6 billion. South Korea regards robotics - which includes software and hardware used mostly in manufacturing but also in some consumer appliances and other devices - as a key area for economic ...

Asimo can now run with the best of us.

support@asimoblog.com — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 01:31:00 GMT

Robot can now run 6km/hour (Bangkok Post)
Honda has enhanced the mobility control technology of its humanoid robot Asimo so that it can now participate in a marathon. The world's most advanced humanoid robot could already walk forward, backward, up and down stairs and manoeuvre smoothly around obstructions.

Japan leads the way with Innovative Robots to help the aged.

support@asimoblog.com — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 05:32:00 GMT

Japan eyes robots to support aging population (Boston Globe)
It looks like a washing machine on wheels, but the bulky contraption vacuuming the hallways of a Tokyo high-rise is a robot.

One Investment Advisory Firm which has been using AI for Nearly Two Decades, gets cautious on equities.

support@asimoblog.com — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:52:00 GMT

Legend Advisory's Artificial Intelligence: AANN's Outlook Cautious on Equities; Continues to Favor Further Decrease in ... (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
PALM BEACH GARDENS, Fla.----Following the recent downturn in domestic and international equities, Legend Advisory Corporation, a registered investment adviser, noted that its Asset Allocation Neural Network , a form of artificial intelligence aimed at forecasting the relative strength of global market sectors, had advised on a significant decrease in asset allocation to equities in mid-June.

It looks like a new approach to motion could give Asimo a run for his money!

support@asimoblog.com — Fri, 27 Jul 2007 04:33:00 GMT

Animal-like 'instinct' keeps robot marching (New Scientist)
Newly improved, two-legged Runbot can walk on regular terrain without 'thinking', only needing higher levels of control if the going gets tough

Turkish Schools use Artificial Intelligence Scoring Engine

support@asimoblog.com — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:39:00 GMT

Vantage Learning Provides Artificial Intelligence to Turkey's Private Education System (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
----Vantage Learning: What: Vantage Learning is teaming up with Yuce Information Systems to provide Turkey's private school classrooms with IntelliMetric, a test scoring engine tailored to the needs of Turkish students in grades four and above.

Game Designers push limits of Artificial Intelligence

support@asimoblog.com — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 18:39:00 GMT

Game designers test the limits of artificial intelligence (Boston Globe)
Growing up in Gardner in the 1980s, Michael Zarozinski used to stop by the bowling alley after school to play Pac-Man, Q*bert, and Donkey Kong. Once he'd fed a few hundred quarters into the machines, though, he started noticing a central limitation.

The Human Brain Appears to Continually Rewire Itself While Maintaining the Same Behavior.

support@asimoblog.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 02:13:00 GMT

Noisy Brain May Help Learning (Howard Hughes Medical Institute)
While most people need peace and quiet to cram for a test, the brain itself may need noise to learn, a recent study suggests. In experiments with monkeys, the researchers found that neural activities in the brain gradually change, even when nothing new is being learned

New Technologies can Scan Brainwaves to Determine if Medication or Therapy is Working.

support@asimoblog.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:53:00 GMT

Transforming the Psychiatrist's Office (Technology Review)
New technologies for treating depression could make the couch obsolete.

Bot Learns to Bluff!

support@asimoblog.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:08:00 GMT

No longer limited to a human skill, an artificial intelligence bot has learned to bluff in it's own environment.

Poker Robot to Play Two Humans for a Prize of $50,000.00

support@asimoblog.com — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 01:04:00 GMT

Rivaling the good old days when chess bots were climbing to the top of the sports world, Artificial Intelligence has been unleashed on the world of Poker.

In the battle over spam, Artificial Intelligence may be the tool which determines the victor!

support@asimoblog.com — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 03:19:00 GMT

Spammers' use of AI only just begun (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News)
Though security industry experts were openly referring to the death of spam several years ago, the arrival of image-based attacks has resulted in a stunning renaissance in the volumes of unwanted e-mail reaching end-users' inboxes.

Skynet? Killbots? Does this all sound sorta familiar?

support@asimoblog.com — Tue, 15 May 2007 02:37:00 GMT

Terminator kill-bots to be run by system called 'Skynet' (The Register)
How many hints do we need? Flee while you can Following the announcement of the new Flying-HK-style "Reaper" death machines for the British forces, the prophetic nature of the Terminator movies has been further confirmed.…