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Video Friday: Make This Face

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We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. DJI ] I know this commercial is supposed to be selling me on Vector, but what is that store, and how do I buy all those other robots? Paper ] Thanks, Ad! Naver Labs' ARTO-1 robot is learning to draw.

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Yu Yuan on Building A Persistent Virtual World

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Persistent computing refers to the combination of all the technologies needed to support the development and operation of a persistent virtual world. There are different kinds of VR experiences, but many of them are one-time events. But in a persistent virtual world the current status of the virtual world needs to be stored constantly.

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Teen Creates App To Identify Nutrient Deficiencies

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His father suggested he think about ikigai , a Japanese concept referring to something that gives a person a sense of purpose. He presented his app at last year’s IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Reality during an event hosted in collaboration with Amazon Web Services.

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott, a physician as well as a lawyer, is a professor of law and health sciences at the University of Surrey’s School of Law. He also is an adjunct assistant professor at the Geffen School of Medicine at the University of California, Los Angeles, and he wrote The Reasonable Robot: Artificial Intelligence and the Law.

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WVU Center develops electric drive and alternative fuel vehicle smart phone app and training program for first responders

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The West Virginia University (WVU)-based National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium ( NAFTC ) has created a suite of modern technology products that put knowledge about specific electric drive and alternative fuel vehicles at the fingertips of first responders. Online courses will be available in 2012.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. Instead of one organization managing all of this information, blockchains store data via a network of personal computers.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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After a year of speculation based on little more than a person in a robot suit combined with some optimistic assertions made by Tesla CEO Elon Musk , many roboticists tuned in to the event livestream (or attended in person) to see what Tesla’s approach to humanoid robotics would turn out to be. Assistant Professor, University of Toronto.

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