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What does a robot think?
Talking to yourself isn’t just for humans – it’s for robots, too.
Alexa, Google and Siri often hear us incorrectly, so Italian researchers designed a robot that ‘thinks’ to learn why other robots are getting so confused.
‘Pepper’ the robot processes instructions out loud, so the user can see where to troubleshoot. When Pepper was setting the table but was instructed to put a plate in a spot that was against its prewritten etiquette rules, it thought: “Ehm, this situation upsets me. I would never break the rules, but I can’t upset him, so I’m doing what he wants.”
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IMAGE: This image shows a quote from Jane Austen s Mansfield Park written in oligourethanes. view more
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Using a novel molecular-data-storage technique, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have encoded a quote from Jane Austen s classic novel Mansfield Park in a series of oligomers, which a third party could read back without prior knowledge of the structures that encoded the passage. The findings, published April 21st in the journal
Cell Reports Physical Science, illustrate a method to encode data that allows for greater information density than DNA-based approaches and that relies on urethane-like plastics highly accessible and structurally modifiable chemical feedstocks instead of nucleic acids.
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