Advances in AI

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A number of recent stories illustrate the rapid progress that’s being made in many different fields linked to artificial intelligence:

Europe’s four-year AMARSi project (Adaptive Modular Architecture for Rich Motor Skills) could lead to humanoid robots that quickly acquire skills from human co-workers as well as their environments.
AMARSi project could see robots learn from co-workers

Also from Europe is HUMAVIPS (Humanoids with Auditory and Visual Abilities in Populated Spaces) which seeks to improve the ways humans and robots communicate and interact.
Humanoid robots to gain advanced social skills

A research team at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor has demonstrated how memristors can mimic the behavior of brain synapses.
Electronics ‘missing link’ brings neural computing closer