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SoftBank’s human-like robot named Pepper’ poses for pictures in its role as a PR manager of Tottori prefecture at the prefecture speciality store in Tokyo, Japan, July 1, 2015. Pepper will work at the store until July 2, as the first workplace venue for its temporary staffing service. REUTERS/Yuya Shino
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Fans look on at KeyArena during Valve’s International Dota 2 Championships Wednesday in Seattle. The championship, pitting 16 teams against each other for $23 million in prize money, runs through Saturday. (ELAINE THOMPSON / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS)
Robot Learns from Pro Gamers — then Crushes Them
Washington- For decades, the world’s smartest game-playing humans have been racking up losses to increasingly sophisticated forms of artificial intelligence. The defeats began in the 1990s when IBM’s Deep Blue computer conquered chess master Garry Kasparov. More...Caption:
Drive.ai is trying to address how an autonomous car would communicate with pedestrians. Credit Drive.ai
How Driverless Cars May Interact With People
San Francisco-There are plenty of unanswered questions about how self-driving cars would function in the real world, like understanding local driving customs and handing controls back to a human in an emergency. Now a start-up called Drive.ai, based in Mountain View,...Caption:
Board Director of Product Division for SoftBank Robotics Kazutaka Hasumi (R) performs with SoftBank’s emotion-reading robot Pepper during a demonstration with the robot, to show its compatibility with Google’s Android software, at the company’s headquarters in Tokyo, Japan, May 19, 2016. REUTERS/Toru Hanai