AI News on the Web 18 August 2011

Robot 'Mission Impossible' wins video prize
New Scientist
Footage of the experiment, conducted by Marco Dorigo at the Free University of Brussels, Belgium, and colleagues, won the video competition at the Conference on Artificial Intelligence in San Francisco earlier this week. It's a simple demonstration, ...

Virtual and Artificial, but 58000 Want Course
New York Times
A free online course at Stanford University on artificial intelligence, to be taught this fall by two leading experts from Silicon Valley, has attracted more than 58000 students around the globe — a class nearly four times the size of Stanford's ...

Smartphones of the Future: How They Will Look, What They Will Do
PCWorld
Flexible designs, augmented reality, quad-core processors, and even some artificial intelligence are just a few of the features you can expect smartphones to have in the next five to ten years. By Ginny Mies, PCWorld As you're reading this article, ...

Technology leaps ahead with bionic prosthetic leg
abc7.com
Conventional prosthetic legs may be light and agile, but those who use them say they still feel like artificial limbs. This new bionic leg contains "artificial" intelligence. When scientists built this one, they wanted to create a leg that could think. ...

Creatures 4 Coming This Year
Inside Mac Games
The life simulation game once again features the Norns, creatures which can evolve, learn, interact, and reproduce according to their own DNA and unique artificial intelligence. 15 years after they came into the world, the little Creatures are having ...

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Artificial Endocrine System to Help Create World's First 'Love' Robot
International Business Times
By IBTimes Staff Reporter | July 29, 2011 3:32 AM EDT Artificial intelligence researcher Hooman Samani, from the Keio-NUS CUTE Center, has proposed a new generation of robots with the ability to love and be loved by humans. Referred to as Lovotics, ...

Futurologist: Man will Merge with Machine by 2029
International Business Times
K. Cameron Lau | Aug 01, 2011 | 2min:21sec Author, inventor, and futurologist, Ray Kurzweil believes that by the year 2029 man and machine will merge ushering in a future that will both raise standards of artificial intelligence to human levels as well ...

Tokyo Institute of Technology introduces Robot That Can Learn, Think And Act ...
AkihabaraNews
This robot can think, learn and act by itself using artificial intelligence. It is being developed by the Hasegawa Group at the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Using a technology called a self-replicating neural network, or SOINN(Self-Organizing ...