NASA's Martian exploration robot Opportunity, which has been on the red planet for seven years, has new capabilities to make its own choices about whether to make additional observations of the rocks it finds upon arrival at a new location.
In addition to earning a living as a professor of digital art at the University of Oregon, Michael A. Salter is a highly original contemporary sculptor. In his spare time, he creates gigantic robots using only cardboard and polystyrene pieces.
Not that it has a particularly attractive design, but the El-E cyber helper developed by engineers at the Center for Healthcare Robotics at Georgia Institute of Technology and Emory University is unrivaled at finding things and taking them here and there.
From his position at the Sony Informatics Laboratory in Paris, Luc Steels, communication expert and author of several books on Artificial Intelligence, leads European research in this field.
Danni Büchner is invited to Sam Dylan's Halloween party. But the "Goodbye Germany" emigrant has no desire for many other party guests. And find clear words.
