News Sampling from AAAI's AI TOPICS "AI in the news" Collection

• Researchers develop \"robotic apprentices\" . - 2 days ago
  University researchers have developed an artificial intelligence that can learn by watching "experts" perform a task. The artificial intelligence was developed by Stanford University for use in robotic helicopters which le...
  
• UMass startup's uBot builds other robots. - 15 hours ago
  Academic robotics research often includes building a robot from scratch, a labor-intensive process that a base robotics platform could eliminate. The uBot balances on two wheels, can pick objects up with its arms, and can in...
  
• New Scientist Technology Subscribe to New Scientist magazine Paraplegics take first steps with robotic legs. - 9 hours ago
  The device, called ReWalk, is the brainchild of engineer Amit Goffer, founder of Argo Medical Technologies, based in Israel. ReWalk consists of motorised leg supports, body sensors and a back pack that contains a computer ...
  
• Don't dismiss robot surgeons. - 13 hours ago
  Lord Winston in his new BBC1 series, Superdoctors ...worries "...that robotic nurses and robotic doctors are completely contrary to what medicine is about." ... The second half of Superdoctors dealt with two robot surgica...
  
• Computer Beats Pro At US Go Congress . - 17 hours ago
  In a historic achievement, the MoGo computer program defeated Myungwan Kim 8P Thursday by 1.5 points in a 9-stone game. “It played really well,” said Kim, who estimated MoGo’s current strength at “two or ...