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Sensors for bat-inspired spy plane under development

ANN ARBOR, Mich.—A six-inch robotic spy plane modeled after a bat would gather data from sights, sounds and smells in urban combat zones and transmit information back to a soldier in real time.
That’s the Army’s concept, and it has awarded the University of Michigan College of Engineering a five-year, $10-million grant to help make it [...]



Sugar cube-sized swarm bots could build Transformers, bring destruction upon us all

 
British scientists have started an EU-funded project named “Symbrion” to build swarm bots the size of a sugar cube, which could self-assemble with each other and form larger, more useful, and more box office-potent robots. Each bot will have wheels or tentacles to allow it to move around independently, along with its own brain to [...]



“Rascals” AI could pass Turing test, with a little help from Blue Gene

 
Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute believe they’ve built an AI smart enough to pass an avatar version of the Turing test — convince a human that it is human while conversing in a virtual environment like Second Life. The bot is named “Rascals,” which stands for Rensselaer Advanced Synthetic Architecture for Living Systems. Naturally, this [...]


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