Researchers of the Case Western Reserve University have taken insects as the source of inspiration for developing walking robots. Watch the video of a six-legged robot with a neurologically-based control system, where it walks on “rocky” ground and adapts its gait accordingly.
How do humans learn and think? And how these theories about cognition stand up in the real world? Cognitive robotics marries the study of cognitive science, that is how the brain represents and transforms information, with the challenges the real world. Read about how theories of human cognition are tested in a cognitive robotics lab (cacm.acm.org).
New research shows that intelligence needs a body (see New AI: Embodied Intelligence). Josh Bongard researches how changes in the body can affect learning processes. Bongard ran simulations of several types of robots and they each had the same goal, which is to seek out a virtual light source and evolve a walking gait to reach it (via newscientist.com).
Researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute for Technology (KIT) are developing a robot that will be able to communicate and act autonomously. The aim is to create a machine that can interact with humans in everyday situations. Watch the video (reuters.com)
Imagine it is the other way around: Instead of using the brain-computer-interface (BCI) to control gadgets, you or better your brain help the computer perform tasks it struggles with, such as recognize and classify images. Electrical signals within the brain fire before a person even realizes he has recognized an image as odd or unusual. Using this fact, the researchers used a BCI to sort through satellite images for surface-to-air missiles faster than any machine or human analyst could manage alone (via technologyreview.com)
Melody Dye, science writer for Scientific American, and cognitive scientist Michael Ramscar talk about how we learn.
Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer FH St. Gallen und Walter Diggelmann, ai-one ag präsentieren semantische Technologien in eHealth. Walter Diggelmann wird eine Einführung in ai-one™. Danach referiert Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer die web-basierte eHealth-Platform SEMPER.
Wann: Montag, 13. Dezember 2010 18:00
Preis: USD 10,00 pro Person
Wo: Uni Zürich, Institut für Bankenwesen, Plattenstrasse 32 Seminarraum 4, Zürich
Weitere Informationen zum Vortrag finden Sie hier. Sie können die Präsentation von Professor Dr. Ulrich Reimer und das White Paper “Vergleich ai-one - traditionelle künstliche ai” herunterladen.
Your doctor was right in advising to exercise. And it seems, a low calorie diet too are beneficial on mental acuity and motor ability - that is if you are a mouse. Researchers show in mice that caloric restriction and exercise delay some of the debilitating effects of aging by rejuvenating connections between nerves and the muscles that they control (harvardmagazine.com).
MP3-encoding reduces efficiently the size of an audio file while still reproducing the quality of the original by reducing accuracy of certain parts of sound that are considered to be beyond the auditory resolution ability of most people. The brain uses the same trick. It takes advantage of the fact that the world is predictable, and pays less attention to parts it can predict. More on how the brain behaves like the MP3-encoder on pnas.org and dailyscience.com.
Find out if you are ultimately intelligent and take the online test. The “ultimate intelligence test” claims to cover the broadest range of cognitive skills that are believed to contribute to intelligence. The test is divided into 12 tasks that are designed to test 12 different aspects of working memory, reasoning, focus, and planning. More about the test in “How intelligent are you?” (smh.com.au).
