robots
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Meet Australia’s Newest RoboCup Team
A new Australian team will take on the world’s best at the biggest robot competition in Japan later this month. “UTS Unleashed!” is the only Australian team to qualify for the 2017 RoboCup @ Home Social Robot League – a competition that requires teams to design robot behaviours that allow for interaction and collaboration with…
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Why It Makes Sense To Give Factory Robots AI
For decades, robotics has been an essential component of factories, manufacturing plants and warehouses around the world. However, these are “robots” in the simplest sense of the term – mindless machines that serve a singular purpose. Companies are now beginning to invest in autonomous robots that can think for themselves. It sounds like the beginning…
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What If Intelligent Machines Could Learn From Each Other?
Take a look around and you’ll see evidence of the widespread adoption of wearable sensors for health and fitness, such as the Fitbit, Garmin or other devices. What many people many not know is that we are also using sensors to monitor the structural integrity of bridges and buildings, as well as tracking the movements…
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Artificial Intelligence Still Sucks At Poetry
Artificial intelligence has bested humanity in almost every intellectual pursuit going. They’ve trounced us at chess, murdered us on the TV show Jeopardy! and been crowned world champion at the ancient board game Go. But when it comes to poetry, computers are worse than that beret-wearing kid from high school who always rhymed “love” with…