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Carnegie Mellon Moon-Robot Whizzes Assembling Team for Google's $30 Million Lunar X-Prize

Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable platform for drilling deep into extraterrestrial soils.

Researchers Design Funny ‘Bot' That Can Understand Humor

Finally you’ll have a friend who will laugh at your stupid jokes—never mind that it’s a robot.

University of Cincinnati researchers Julia Taylor and Larry Mazlack recently unveiled a "bot" (actually for now it’s still just a software program) that recognizes jokes. They recently reported the development at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference in Vancouver, Canada.

RoboCup World Finals July '07 -Video

The University of Freiburg's NimbRo won all finals against Japan's Team Osaka of the Humanoid League at RoboCup 2007 held this July in Atlanta.

Freiburg's current research centers on the development of humanoid robots that are able to improve their behavior through learning. This includes the design of robot hardware, as well as algorithms for perception and behavior control. Application areas are RoboCup soccer and intuitive multimodal communication with humans as a museum guide.

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Robots Rising -Scientists are Worried

The Japanese, culturally speaking, tend to love robots. Right now in Japan, you can buy a robot “babysitter” known as the PaPeRo. Because it is capable of face recognition, it “remembers” individuals and can tell you if a child is missing from the group. It can talk, sing and dance. More importantly, it can transmit what it “sees” to absent parents through a cell phone. Parents can talk to their children through the robot’s “voicebox”.

Robots Simulate Darwin's Natural Selection -Daily Discovery

The New Scientist reports that robots that experiments designed by a Swiss research team have artificially evolved ways to communicate with one another. The experiments suggest that simulated evolution could be a useful tool for those designing of swarms of robots. The "genomes" of the bots that found food and avoided poison most efficiently were recombined, mimicking biological natural selection.

Cooperative communication evolved when selective success was judged at the group level – when many robots displayed efficient behaviour – or when the genomes of the robots were most similar – like biological relatives. Posted by Jason McManus.

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Carnegie Mellon Moon-Robot Whizzes Assembling Team for Google's $30 Million Lunar X-Prize

Researchers in the Robotics Institute of Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science are building a robotic prospector for NASA that can creep over rocky slopes and then anchor itself as a stable platform for drilling deep into extraterrestrial soils.

Researchers Design Funny ‘Bot' That Can Understand Humor

Finally you’ll have a friend who will laugh at your stupid jokes—never mind that it’s a robot.

University of Cincinnati researchers Julia Taylor and Larry Mazlack recently unveiled a "bot" (actually for now it’s still just a software program) that recognizes jokes. They recently reported the development at the American Association for Artificial Intelligence conference in Vancouver, Canada.

RoboCup World Finals July '07 -Video

The University of Freiburg's NimbRo won all finals against Japan's Team Osaka of the Humanoid League at RoboCup 2007 held this July in Atlanta.

Freiburg's current research centers on the development of humanoid robots that are able to improve their behavior through learning. This includes the design of robot hardware, as well as algorithms for perception and behavior control. Application areas are RoboCup soccer and intuitive multimodal communication with humans as a museum guide.

Posted by Jason McManus.

Video

Robots Rising -Scientists are Worried

The Japanese, culturally speaking, tend to love robots. Right now in Japan, you can buy a robot “babysitter” known as the PaPeRo. Because it is capable of face recognition, it “remembers” individuals and can tell you if a child is missing from the group. It can talk, sing and dance. More importantly, it can transmit what it “sees” to absent parents through a cell phone. Parents can talk to their children through the robot’s “voicebox”.

Robots Simulate Darwin's Natural Selection -Daily Discovery

The New Scientist reports that robots that experiments designed by a Swiss research team have artificially evolved ways to communicate with one another. The experiments suggest that simulated evolution could be a useful tool for those designing of swarms of robots. The "genomes" of the bots that found food and avoided poison most efficiently were recombined, mimicking biological natural selection.

Cooperative communication evolved when selective success was judged at the group level – when many robots displayed efficient behaviour – or when the genomes of the robots were most similar – like biological relatives. Posted by Jason McManus.

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