US futurologist predicts official arrival of artificial intelligence.

Theres another, equally important, purpose to making humanoids such as Cog human: interaction with other human beings. For human/robot interaction, its good to have something that looks vaguely human

National Geographic and IBM have partnered on a five-year research project that will sample DNA from hundreds of thousands of people to map human migration patterns through history.

The biggest problem with modern robotics is not the mechanisms, its the intelligence behind the mechanisms. Matching the human sense of balance is a major challenge, for example. Enter cy

Few topics are more controversial than genetic engineering, yet considerable amounts of research dollars are being poured into the area every year. Right now, genetically engineered plants are

Although it may be hard to tell from the explosion in chip speeds in the past year, an end to Moores Law is in sight. Manufacturing chips economically at 0.1 microns and below is going to be a challen

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Microsoft, Google, Vodafone and Yahoo seek to allay criticism.

Reaching the places where human beings cant travel would later propel robotic arms millions of miles away from the factory floor. It started with the creation of the six-jointed, robotic Stanford Arm,

TU Delft researcher hails 'breakthrough' device.

Earlier walking robots had a more serious side: to discover more about the human brain. Shakey, for example, emerged from the Stanford Research Institute (now SRIs artificial intelligence centre) in 1

BEIJING - A rights group accused Western Internet companies on Thursday of complicity with censorship in China and called on Microsoft, Google and Yahoo to resist Beijing's demands.

Probably the best place to start with the notion of artificially intelligent machines, is to get some perspective on exactly what comprises intelligence, or other similar concepts like awareness or se

We take a look back at the tech products that were so overdone by marketing hype, that by the time they were released, most failed to meet expectations.

Supercomputer tops professional player for first time.

Poker software called Polaris will play a rematch against human players during the 2008 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

New technique predicts actions before they take place.

Sarah Kidner explores our fascination with robots, looks at their past and ponders the robotic future. What have a Czech playwright, 15th century artist Leonardo da Vinci and the future o

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the web, has a vision for newer, smarter web. Tim Dean looks at how the future of the web might work.

The research thats being done now is often aimed at exploring the mental space that brains operate in without necessarily trying to duplicate the way they work. At the Free University of Brussels and