coondoggie writes “Cisco has developed a set of small smart robots, which can act as wireless communications relays, that sense when a mobile user is moving out of service range, and can follow the user to maintain connectivity. According to Dave Buster, product marketing manager for the Cisco Global Government Solutions Group, the robots can [...]

An ethical code to prevent humans abusing robots, and vice versa, is being drawn up by South Korea.
The Robot Ethics Charter will cover standards for users and manufacturers and will be released later in 2007. It is being put together by a five member team of experts that includes futurists and a science fiction writer.The [...]

“Diodes can be made to ’swim’ through salt water by hitting them with an alternating electric field. The applied field induces a current that sets up a field between the diode’s electrical contacts and creates a propulsive force. The abstract of the paper in Nature Materials is freely available. New Scientist has videos of the [...]

“Jeff Hawkins is best known for founding Palm Computing and Handspring, but for the last eighteen months he’s been working on his third company, Numenta. In his 2005 book, On Intelligence, Hawkins laid out a theoretical framework describing how the neocortex processes sensory inputs and provides outputs back to the body. Numenta’s goal is to [...]

I’m not sure about the validity of the actual methods they use, but it sure sounds like something that could be used with great benefit in the A.I. industry, as well as law enforcement of course ;)
An anonymous slashdot reader writes to tell us German scientists claim to have the means of predicting decisions of [...]