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How Will Machines Face Moral Dilemmas?

How Will Machines Face Moral Dilemmas? | Science News | Scoop.it

As machines become increasingly autonomous from humans, such as self-guided drones or self-driven vehicles (which have been granted drivers' licenses in Nevada), they will face moral dilemmas.

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[VIDEO] Robotics: Festo - The Soundmachines

http://www.festo.com/cms/en_corp/9784.htm - Pneumatic sound
Microcylinders played with virtuosity: the automatically operated, electric string quartet with drum by Roland Olbeter.

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Machine Beauty and Our Bionic Future

Machine Beauty and Our Bionic Future | Science News | Scoop.it

Welcome to the brave new world of Machine Beauty, where our new willingness to replace our limbs with superior prosthetic devices hints at our technological future as a species. Maybe futurist Ray Kurzweil was right after all when he predicted the merging of man and machine within our lifetime as part of the great Singularity.

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Can a machine tell when you're lying? Research suggests the answer is 'yes'

Can a machine tell when you're lying? Research suggests the answer is 'yes' | Science News | Scoop.it
Inspired by the work of psychologists who study the human face for clues that someone is telling a high-stakes lie, UB computer scientists are exploring whether machines can also read the visual cues that give away deceit.
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Artificial Intelligence - Talking with a machine

Artificial Intelligence - Talking with a machine | Science News | Scoop.it

There are no limits. Artificial Intelligence is communication. Natural language is universal.

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How to build a time machine [VIDEO]

Read more: http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/nstv/2011/10/how-to-build-a-time-machine.html...
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Bionic Brains and Beyond

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High-tech implants will soon be commonplace enhancements under our skin and inside our skulls, making us stronger and smarter. Daniel H. Wilson on our 'superabled' future.

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[VIDEO] Robotics: Festo Sound Machines 2.0

Festo Sound Machines 2.0 -- artistic human-machine interaction Extreme technological precision meets artistic freedom: Sound Machines 2.0 is an intelligent, robot-controlled sound installation comprising five self-playing musical instruments.

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[VIDEO] When creative machines overtake man (TEDTalks)

Machine intelligence is improving rapidly, to the point that the scientist of the future may not even be human! In fact, in more and more fields, learning machines are already outperforming humans.

 

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NASA - Man and Machine

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While Robonaut 2 has been busy testing its technology in microgravity aboard the International Space Station, NASA and General Motors have been working together on the ground to find new ways those technologies can be used.
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Homemade machine helps boy walk

Homemade machine helps boy walk | Science News | Scoop.it
A seven-year-old Argentine boy has defied doctors' predictions that he would never walk, with help from a homemade rehabilitation device built by his father.
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