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Multimodal AI Connects the Digital Dots
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Robotics Trends For 2012
IEEE's Erico Guizzo and Hizook.com founder Travis Deyle make several predictions regarding what will be big news in robotics this year.
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The Future of Riots
On 6 August, peaceful protests over the police shooting of a local man in London's Tottenham district exploded into full-blown riots. During four days of assaults...
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The Making of Arduino
How five friends engineered a small circuit board that’s taking the DIY world by storm.
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Pr2 Can Now Fetch You a Sandwich From Subway
Researchers from the University of Tokyo and Technische Universitat Munchen have given a robot common sense.
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The Top 11 Technologies of the Decade
The January 2011 issue of IEEE Spectrum reviews the most important innovations that came of age in the past 10 years, based on their influence, usefulness, and...
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Computing the Scene of a Crime
The use of fingerprints, shoeprints, handwriting, and other forensic evidence may seem like good science—but often it's not, as it relies heavily on humans for...
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Telepresence Robot Replaces Editor at Ieee Spectrum
With several companies offering telepresence robots to act as people's proxies at the office, IEEE Spectrum magazine investigated their use earlier this year by...
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Infoglut: The Disease of the New Millennium
Information, the very thing that makes it possible to be an engineer, a doctor, a lawyer, or any other kind of information worker, is threatening our ability to...
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