Aritificial Intelligence competes humans at poker

The poker software called Polaris developed by University of Alberta in Canada will compete against human opponents in Las Vegas, in 2008 world series of poker in Las Vegas. The maker of the program asserts that given long enough chance, there is no way the program will loose money, claiming that humans in the end will make mistakes...

Poker is not like chess of course, it involves not only calculation but involves many human traits. We will see the results and you can be sure tosee it here soon...

See more at:

http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/115852,poker-program-battles-humans-in-vegas.aspx

Robot fashion models

They might not yet be as pretty as human top models, but they sure are starting to penetrate in this profession too...The Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Technology in Japan developed this robot with materials found readily available anywhere...It goes for only $940 if you care to buy one...


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Imitating robot hand

Looks like we are getting closer everyday to be able to build the real Luke's Arm in Starwars. This new robot hand is able to imitate whatever you can do with your own hand. See link to read more:

http://www.electricpig.co.uk/2008/07/02/robot-hand-gestures-for-you/

Robot barman is here

Okay, as we have just posted our welcome message, lets go straight into the business...

It looks like the barman and the barmaid of your favorite bar / club will be out of job soon (sadly - but I still do not think these can replace humans a 100% for a very long time)...You guessed - the robot barman is here...It looks like it already saves time and cost for the tasks it is required to do. Look at the link to read more:

http://www.caterersearch.com/Articles/2008/07/02/321930/robot-barman-debuts-at-londons-selfridges.html

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Hello Everyone,

This is the very first post of the blog we created for roboticmagazine website, and as you might guess, we are very excited right now...

We will try to cover miscellaneous news as well as express our thoughts in here on any robot/robotics related subject. There might be things that are already covered in the magazine itself - those we will post only for making our comments mostly. Also there will be our comments on events, news, general stuff that we will be posting here that we might not include in the magazine...So we believe, this blog is going to be an excellent complimentary source of information for our readers.

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