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AI in the News: Interesting News Stories about AI
AI in the News is a AAAI service to alert readers to current stories about AI that appear in various news sources. An AI program, NewsFinder, crawls the web to collect stories that mention a few key terms, like "artificial intelligence" or "robot", parses them, scores them with respect to likely interest to readers, and publishes the highest scoring stories here. NewsFinder uses a Support Vector Machine that has been trained to classify the interestingness of stories (and is retrained frequently from readers' feedback) to score every story, then adjusts the scores up or down using knowledge of words and phrases that indicate more or less interest.
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Recent News Stories - June 01, 2011
- May 29, 2011: Robot makes stage debut in play about lust, science. CNet. "In an exciting development for robot thespians of the world, a play by novelist and playwright David Lodge features a bot in a walk-on (roll-on) role. Arthur was built specifically for a production at Octagon Theatre Bolton. "Secret Thoughts," a play by British novelist and playwright David Lodge, is introducing audiences to a hot new actor--Arthur the robot. The world premiere of "Secret Thoughts" will show through June 4 at the U.K.'sOctagon Theatre Boltonlocated in Lancashire in Northern England. So the Octagon decided to turn to students at the nearby University of Bolton for casting help."(info)
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- May 28, 2011: Humanity Vs. Our Gadgets. Wall Street Journal. "Daniel Wilson's novel "Robocalypse" tells the story of a violent human-robot confrontation. Tom Shippey reviews. For a while robots took over the role of golems in the popular imagination: They have glowing eyes, a terrific work rate and are obedient to command—until something goes wrong with their instructions. Isaac Asimov long ago included "a robot may not injure a human being" as one of his "Three Laws of Robotics," and much classic science fiction followed this rule. How does that affect the old theme of "War With the Robots"? But at least we are not in the familiar post-apocalypse scenario, with all the survivors killing one another for food: The robots take care of all the killing."(info)
- May 25, 2011: Robots hoard the books at mechanized library. CNet. "At new University of Chicago library, five underground robot cranes help fetch your books from storage bins in the vault. A robotic crane rests between columns of bins at the Joe and Rika Mansueto Library. If books are dying a slow death, libraries are also living on borrowed time. But that didn't stop the University of Chicago from sinking $81 million into the newJoe and Rika Mansueto Library, which ironically doesn't have any books on display. The robotized storage system makes lots of sense in terms of book preservation and efficiency; since books are packed by size instead of subject the vault apparently is seven times more efficient than conventional shelf storage."(info)
- May 27, 2011: Making household robot helpers smarter. Kurzweilai. "Computer scientists at MIT have improved the ability of robots to plan and perform complex actions around the house (and elsewhere). The scientists tackled the problem with a hierarchical, progressive algorithm that can greatly reduce the computational cost associated with performing complex actions. They said the key is to break the computationally burdensome larger goal of task and motion planning into smaller steps, and then make a detailed plan for only the first few, leaving the exact mechanisms of subsequent steps for later. For example, a robot may pick up object A to move it to a location L, only to arrive at L and realize another object, B, is already there."(info)
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- May 27, 2011: Corkscrew-Drive Robot Spirals Over Rough Terrain. Discovery. "Helical coils and an omnidirectional drive are key to this robot's unique maneuverability. Tim Lexen, an engineer in Cumberland, Wisconsin -- that's who. " The underbelly of Lexen's prototype includes a flat triangular compartment (7 inches per side), made from PVC, that houses three electric servo motors, battery packs and electronics. These independently operate three 8-inch stainless steel helical coils, which have a low-friction outer coating to keep the device from getting stuck in rough terrain. Such a device could be used to roam the Martian landscape or aid soldiers on Earthly battlefield, but Lexen there are few challenges Lexen needs overcome."(info)
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- May 25, 2011: Art: Body work. Nature. "Article preview View full access options Genetics and artificial intelligence figure prominently in an unsettling Dublin exhibition, discovers Anthony King. Correspondence to: "(info)
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- May 26, 2011: Jet! Paul McCartney archive uploaded to cloud. CNet. "HP digitizes five decades of Paul McCartney music, photos, and video and uploads it to cloud servers. For the time being, it's a private collection. Sir Paul's archive holds more than a million items. While some brick-and-mortar libraries are converting to robot-stylestorage systems, Hewlett-Packard has put Paul McCartney's archive of music, video clips, and photos into a digital cloud library. HP launched the private collection withMPL Communications, which the former Beatle founded in 1971, to digitize five decades of McCartney material. It's called thePaul McCartney Digital Library, and it doesn't include Beatles material."(info)
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- May 26, 2011: Amphibious Aquapod might be the clumsiest robot ever (video). Engadget. " It may look like nothing more than a random piece of seaside trash, but that ugly little creature you're staring at is actually known as Aquapod -- an amphibious robot that crawls around by falling over itself. Developed by researchers at the University of Minnesota's Center for Distributed Robotics, Aquapod uses two carbon fiber arms and a servo motor system to somersault itself around, like an inebriated horseshoe crab. It's certainly not the swiftest of bots, but this guy's durable enough to move across rough terrains and, per its nickname, is completely waterproof and in full control of its buoyancy. Creators Andrew Carlson and Nikos Papanikolopoulos say their $2,000 brainchild could one day be used to monitor fish populations and conduct underwater experiments -- or to simply scare the bejesus out of beach-going children."(info)
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- May 25, 2011: Climbing robot can scale walls on a supersonic stream of air, won't leave fingerprints behind. Engadget. " There are plenty of wall climbing robots roaming the Earth, but few can scale heights as gracefully as this little guy can. Developed by researchers at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand, this bot can wind its way across any glass, metal or cloth terrain, without even touching its pods to the surface. This phenomenon also applies to streams of air, which, when moving at high speeds around of a circular gripper, can create a vacuum strong enough to hold things without actually touching them. In this case, air shoots out of the robot's feet at more than 2,000 miles per hour, creating enough pressure to lift the craft, while holding it close to the wall."(info)
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- May 29, 2011: Czech Juggling Robot. RobotNet. " Back in early January, the Department of Control Engineering at the Czech Technical Institute in Prague showed a robot designed for juggling balls at AMPER 2011. One YouTube video shows a frontal view of the robot juggling, and a second video shows the same process from beneath, with five balls in motion. (via Hack a Day) "(info)
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- May 29, 2011: Treebot climbs trees, is a robot (video). Engadget. " Remember when you didn't consider climbing trees a chore? Treebot doesn't -- but then, it wasn't programmed to know boredom. The robot was designed by a team at The Chinese University of Hong Kong for the express purpose of shimmying up trees autonomously, figuring out the best route up a trunk using built-in touch sensors. The 'bot's body is designed like an inchworm, expanding and contracting as it works it way up -- unlike other climbers we've seen."(info)
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- May 31, 2011: Robot Ruby solves Rubik's Cube in 10.69 seconds, still can't beat humans (video). Engadget. " There are a few robots smart enough to solve a Rubik's Cube in seconds flat, but a group of students at Swinburne University of Technology think theirs may be the fastest on Earth. Their bot, named Ruby, recently mastered the puzzle in just 10.69 seconds, including the time spent analyzing the cube. According to the university, Ruby's 10-second mark smashes the current world robot record of 18.2 seconds, unofficially making it the fastest cube-solving machine on the planet. But Ruby still has a long way to go before it catches Feliks Zemdegs -- a 16-year-old Australian who solved a Rubik's Cube in 6.24 seconds and continues to carry the torch for all of humanity."(info)
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