Google wants its decades old Robots Exclusion Protocol to become an internet standard
Google wants its decades old Robots Exclusion Protocol (REP) to be certified as an official internet standard. To make that possible, it has made its robots.txt parser open source.
REP is a protocol that website owners can use to deny web crawlers and other clients access to a website, writes Silico... Read more
Robert Downey Jr. wants to clean the environment with robots, nanotech and AI
Actor and producer Robert Downey Jr. launched a group during the re:MARS conference of Amazon in Las Vegas, which will use advanced technology to clean up the environment "significantly, whether totally or not" in about ten years time.
Downey Jr. said that specifically robots, nanotechnology and ar... Read more
Facebook uses robots to develop artificial intelligence
Facebook researchers are experimenting with robotics to find out more about artificial intelligence. That's what IT Pro says.
"Robotics offer important opportunities for the further development of artificial intelligence, because learning machines to learn things for themselves in the physical world... Read more
“Most knowledge workers like to work with robots.
A large majority of knowledge workers like to work with robots that automate companies faster and faster and like to learn new skills. This is the result of a survey conducted by Blue Prism, the manufacturer of automation software, among five thousand professionals.
According to the study, 83 percen... Read more
AI system allows robots to recognize objects by touching them
Researchers at the University of California have created a robotic perception framework that allows the devices to recognize objects by touching them. That's what Venturebeat reports.
The researchers built on work published by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. By doing so, they tried to ... Read more
Nvidia makes it easier to train robots to pick things up
It is still complicated for robots to deal with objects that are suddenly lying in a different place than usual. However, a team of researchers from Nvidia has found a way to make it easier to train robots to find that stuff, reports ZDNet.
A robot needs an algorithm for computer vision to find and ... Read more