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Guido de Croon

Robot termites able to build various structures - 0 views

www.sciencemag.org/...754

BIO AI technology science

shared by Guido de Croon on 21 Feb 14 - No Cached
  • Guido de Croon on 21 Feb 14
     
    Nice application of swarm robotics for building various structures. See the video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFwk303p0zY Their compilation process of a desired structure into local behavior rules seems of most interest.
johannessimon81

Computing with RNA - 0 views

www.technologyreview.com/...computing-with-rna

technology BIO science AI computing

shared by johannessimon81 on 10 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 10 Mar 14
     
    After a discussion this morning on robust computing and possible implementations in biological systems I found this really nice result (from 2008) on molecular RNA computers that get assembled within cells and perform simple functions. Of course by having different types of computers within the same cell one could go on to process the output of the other and more complex computations could be executed... Food for thought. :-)
Daniel Hennes

A.I. XPRIZE - 3 views

www.xprize.org/TED

AI technology TED

shared by Daniel Hennes on 20 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Daniel Hennes on 20 Mar 14
     
    TED is sponsoring an A.I. XPRIZE. The goal? Develop an artificial intelligence that jumps on stage and gives a 3min talk on a random topic...
  • Ma Ru on 21 Mar 14
     
    I am going to propose that the rules include in addition something practical - like washing the dishes... If we are to foster progress, let's finally do so in the right direction...
  • Paul N on 24 Mar 14
     
    This sort of reminds me of Hinton's paper from some years ago: http://www.cs.utoronto.ca/~ilya/pubs/2011/LANG-RNN.pdf Train it on previous TED talks and let it run TED talk - like gibberish. It would probably be of similar value. He had a nice one on the meaning of life but I can't find it anymore.
Daniel Hennes

NASA's Asteroid Grand Challenge Series - 1 views

www.topcoder.com/asteroids

space crowdsourcing AI

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  • Daniel Hennes on 11 Mar 14
     
    NASA's new crowdsourcing initiative to find asteroid threats.
Thijs Versloot

Computer as smart as a 4-year-old? Researchers IQ test new artificial intelligence system - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...130715151059.htm

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  • Thijs Versloot on 16 Jul 13
     
    Artificial and natural knowledge researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have IQ-tested one of the best available artificial intelligence systems to see how intelligent it really is. Turns out it's about as smart as the average 4-year-old, they will report July 17 at the U.S. Artificial Intelligence Conference in Bellevue, Wash.
johannessimon81

Scientist controls colleague's hand in first human brain-to-brain interface - 1 views

m.cnet.com/...57600284

technology Bio science AI fun

shared by johannessimon81 on 27 Aug 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 27 Aug 13
     
    The telepathic cyborg lives, sort of. University of Washington scientists Rajesh Rao and Andrea Stocco claim that they are the first to demonstrate human brain-to-brain communication. Rao sent a signal into a Stocco's brain via the Internet that caused him to move his right hand.
johannessimon81

Software Makes 3-D Models From Any Photo - 3 views

www.wired.com/...models-from-any-old-photograph

technology AI INF

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  • johannessimon81 on 12 Sep 13
     
    Video shows how easy the process is and how cool the results look. Does anybody know a potential scientific application for such image processing?
  • LeopoldS on 15 Sep 13
     
    this is very impressive indeed ... looks like the manual steps they are doing could be automatised, can't they?
johannessimon81

3,000 Years of Human History, Described in One Set of Mathematical Equations - 2 views

blogs.smithsonianmag.com/...-set-of-mathematical-equations

AI fun science

shared by johannessimon81 on 24 Sep 13 - No Cached
  • johannessimon81 on 24 Sep 13
     
    Reminds me of psychohistory in Asimov's Foundation trilogy
Tom Gheysens

Computer searches web 24/7 to analyze images and teach itself common sense - 0 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...131120111956.htm

computer web science technology AI

shared by Tom Gheysens on 21 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Tom Gheysens on 21 Nov 13
     
    Now this is a step in the right direction of the discussion we had in one of the wednesday meetings "thoughts of a biologist part 1" :)
Guido de Croon

Robot dragonfly DelFly Explorer avoids obstacles by itself - 1 views

www.tudelft.nl/...plorer-ontwijkt-zelf-obstakels

AI technology BIO

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  • Guido de Croon on 16 Dec 13
     
    TU Delft researchers have developed the DelFly Explorer, the world's first Micro Air Vehicle with flapping wings that can avoid obstacles by itself. The uniqueness of this achievement lies in the DelFly Explorer's very low weight (20 grams, i.e. a few sheets of paper), and this opens up new possible applications for both smaller and larger MAVs.
  • Paul N on 16 Dec 13
     
    I'm kinda curious what you used for processing power there. Is that a DSP?
Tom Gheysens

Microbes provide insights into evolution of human language -- ScienceDaily - 1 views

www.sciencedaily.com/...140423221420.htm

language human insights BIO science AI

shared by Tom Gheysens on 25 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Tom Gheysens on 25 Apr 14
     
    I think this is something we/the group can work on for languages? The finding opens the road for simulations I think so can we do something with this? 
Thijs Versloot

Turing test success marks milestone in computing history @UniofReading - 2 views

www.reading.ac.uk/...PR583836.aspx

turing computing AI

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  • Thijs Versloot on 09 Jun 14
     
    The 65 year-old iconic Turing Test was passed for the very first time by supercomputer Eugene Goostman during Turing Test 2014 held at the renowned Royal Society in London on Saturday.
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  • Marcus Maertens on 09 Jun 14
     
    Breaking news: humans fail to pass the Turing Test for the very first time! Suprisingly, playing the dumb boy does not only work for humans, but for chatterbots as well.
  • johannessimon81 on 09 Jun 14
     
    Is there already a drunk version of the Turing test? Anna?
  • Juxi Leitner on 10 Jun 14
  • Paul N on 11 Jun 14
     
    Humans have been failing the reverse turing test for years now actually.
Luís F. Simões

Singularity University, class of 2010: projects that aim to impact a billion people wit... - 8 views

www.kurzweilai.net/ty-webinar-today-sneak-preview

AI robotics biomedicine biotechnology electronics energy nanotechnology singularity futures social ethics space synthetic biology computer science defence

shared by Luís F. Simões on 22 Sep 10 - No Cached
  • Luís F. Simões on 22 Sep 10
     
    At the link below you find additional information about the projects: Education: Ten weeks to save the world http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100915/full/467266a.html
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  • LeopoldS on 23 Sep 10
     
    this is the podcast I was listening to ...
  • Dario Izzo on 23 Sep 10
     
    We can do it in nine :)
  • LeopoldS on 24 Sep 10
     
    why wait then?
  • Juxi Leitner on 24 Sep 10
     
    hmm, wonder how easy it is to get funding for that, 25k is a bit steep for 10weeks :)
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Sep 10
     
    well, we wait for the same fundings they get and then we will do it in nine.... as we say in Rome "a mettece un cartello so bboni tutti". (italian check for Juxi)
  • LeopoldS on 26 Sep 10
     
    and what you think about the project subjects?
  • LeopoldS on 26 Sep 10
     
    I like the fact that there are quite a lot of space projects .... and these are not even bad in my view: The space project teams have developed imaginative new solutions for space and spinoffs for Earth. The AISynBio project team is working with leading NASA scientists to design bioengineered organisms that can use available resources to mitigate harsh living environments (such as lack of air, water, food, energy, atmosphere, and gravity) - on an asteroid, for example, and also on Earth . The SpaceBio Labs team plans to develop methods for doing low-cost biological research in space, such as 3D tissue engineering and protein crystallization. The Made in Space team plans to bring 3D printing to space to make space exploration cheaper, more reliable, and fail-safe ("send the bits, not the atoms"). For example, they hope to replace some of the $1 billion worth of spare parts and tools that are on the International Space Station.
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Sep 10
     
    and all in only a three months summer graduate program!! that is impressive. God I feel so stupid!!!
  • LeopoldS on 26 Sep 10
     
    well, most good ideas probably take only a second to be formulated, it's the details that take years :-)
  • Dario Izzo on 26 Sep 10
     
    I do not think the point of the SU is to formulate new ideas (infact there is nothing new in the projects chosen). Their mission is to build and maintain a network of contacts among who they believe will be the 'future leaders' of space ... very similar to our beloved ISU.
Thijs Versloot

HealthMap software flagged Ebola 9 days before outbreak announced - 0 views

healthmap.org/ebola

AI health

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  • Thijs Versloot on 11 Aug 14
     
    HealthMap uses algorithms to scour tens of thousands of social media sites, local news, government websites, infectious-disease physicians' social networks and other sources to detect and track disease outbreaks. Sophisticated software filters irrelevant data, classifies the relevant information, identifies diseases and maps their locations with the help of experts.
Paul N

Wiring of retina reveals how eyes sense motion - 2 views

www.nature.com/...-how-eyes-sense-motion-1.15147

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  • Paul N on 05 May 14
     
    Basically neuroscientists discovered time delay neural networks. Guess we were right on track with AI back in the 70s.
Christophe Praz

Small cube robots that self-assemble - 3 views

www.youtube.com/watch

robot self-assembling technology AI

shared by Christophe Praz on 14 May 14 - No Cached
  • Christophe Praz on 14 May 14
     
    Using the angular momentum transmitted by an internal flywheel as an impulse, these cubes can move, jump, roll across the ground and climb over and around one another. They stick together using a set of small magnets, smart !
  • Thijs Versloot on 19 May 14
     
    That is indeed a great way of using modular robots to build larger structures. I think we did bump into this some time back, but never really considered it much. Considering now the working group on structure assembling, I think we should add it to the list of building strategies and seriously consider it.
Luís F. Simões

Dropship offers safe landings for Mars rovers / Technology / Our Activities / ESA - 2 views

www.esa.int/..._safe_landings_for_Mars_rovers

AI UAV StarTiger

shared by Luís F. Simões on 08 Jul 14 - No Cached
  • “StarTiger is a fresh approach to space engineering,” explains Peter de Maagt, overseeing the project. “Take a highly qualified, well-motivated team, gather them at a single well-equipped site, then give them a fixed time to solve a challenging technical problem.”
  • StarTiger stands for ‘Space Technology Advancements by Resourceful, Targeted and Innovative Groups of Experts and Researchers’ working within the Agency’s TRP Basic Technology Research Programme. It brings team members together on a single site to work on a set challenge, aiming to produce a working prototype by the end of the project’s time limit.
  • Luís F. Simões on 08 Jul 14
     
    StarTiger: similar, yet different from the way the ACT does things. Seems like a very interesting programme.
  • Thijs Versloot on 10 Jul 14
     
    Nice initiative and also a good approach, problem-oriented within a fixed time frame. Could definitely be a highly motivating approach, similar to GTOC... I think the ACT should do this more often, targeted at future technologies and/or missions. The team could be structured around 'problems' instead of 'research areas', this will promote multidisciplinary work as well, plus it will also focus activities more. The problems, or more broadly concepts, are identified by the team and a few get chosen as main activities. Subsequent RF and YGT hiring is then done to strenghten the research team. These projects have a maximum lifetime maybe of 1 year? Thoughts?
  • Ma Ru on 10 Jul 14
     
    I'm impressed already by what an innovative group of experts and researchers was able to achieve when resourcefully targeted at coming up with the project's name...
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