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The world's first robot with its own Facebook page (and that can use its information in conversations with "friends") has been developed by Nikolaos Mavridis and collaborators from the Interactive Robots and Media Lab at the United Arab Emirates University . The main hypothesis of the FaceBots project is that long-term human robot interaction will benefit by reference to "shared memories" and "events relevant to shared friends" in human-robot dialogues. More to explore: N. Mavridis, W. Kazmi and P. Toulis, "Friends with Faces: How Social Networks Can Enhance Face...

Source: Eetimes  Passing the Turing test - the holy grail of AI (a human conversing with a computer can't tell it's not human) - may now be possible in a limited way with the world's fastest supercomputer (IBM's Blue Gene) and mimicking the behavior of a human-controlled avatar in a virtual world, according to AI experts at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. "We are building a knowledge...

Via KurzweilAI.net Researchers at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology have developed a system for controlling physical robots using software robots, displayed as virtual-reality...

Via Pink Tentacle     Simroid is a robotic dental patient designed by Kokoro Company Ltd as a training tool for dentists. The simulated patient can follow spoken instructions, closely...

Via Pink Tentacle   Japan’s National Institute of Information and Communications Technology ( NICT ) researchers have developed an autonomous humanoid robot that can recognize and use body...