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Robot Makes Scientific Discovery All by Itself | Wired Science | Wired.com

admin — Sat, 03 Apr 2010 00:33:57 +0000

For the first time, a robotic system has made a novel scientific discovery with virtually no human intellectual input.Scientists designed “Adam” to carry out the entire scientific process on its own: formulating hypotheses, designing and running experiments, analyzing data, and deciding which experiments to run next.”It’s a major advance,” says David Waltz of the Center forComputational Learning Systems at Columbia University. “Science is being done here in a way that incorporates artificial intelligence.It’s automating a part of the scientific process that hasn’t been automated in the past.”The demonstration of autonomous science breaks major ground.Researchers have been automating portions of the scientific process for decades, using robotic laboratory instruments to screen for drugs and sequence genomes, but humans are usually responsible for forming the hypotheses and designing the experiments themselves. After the experiments are complete, the humans must exert themselves again to draw conclusions.

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Small robot fish powered by solid polymer fuel cell : DigInfo

admin — Wed, 24 Mar 2010 05:52:02 +0000

YouTube - Small robot fish powered by solid polymer fuel cell : DigInfo.

MikroKopter – HexaKopter

admin — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 05:09:04 +0000

MikroKopter – HexaKopter from Holger Buss on Vimeo.

End of labour

admin — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 06:00:32 +0000

Currently with 3 and sometimes 4 generations in the work force, the number of available jobs dwindling and the number of robotic workers increasing it makes one wonder about the future of work. So many in America, and other countries, spend a good part of their lives and base their very identities on their careers. When we can envision a moment in time when robotics can take over most of the work load, what then shall we do? The first answer comes to mind is research, academia and more family time come to mind. Clean up will be necessary. Exploration of space. But these too can and are being automated.

Repetitive tasks are the first to be replace with automation.

CubeStormer

admin — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 22:08:10 +0000

YouTube - CubeStormer.