MIT CSAIL’s research examines the economic practicality of using AI for automating tasks, with a particular emphasis on computer vision.

The IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, a competition that aims to improve human collaboration with artificial intelligence to solve global challenges, announced 10 semifinalists for everything from robotic trash cans to AI for fighting malaria.

Meet the three Wild Card entries in the IBM Watson AI XPRIZE, which join a competition designed to develop and apply AI to a wide range of problems.

IBM and the Mass. Institute of Technology plan to expand their ongoing partnership to create the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab to perform research on artificial intelligence. IBM is making a 10-year, $240 million investment to establish the Cambridge, Mass. center. The lab will harness the work of 100 scientists, professors and students to develop AI…

Two images remain in my mind from IROS 2013 last week in Tokyo. The respect for Professor Emeritus Mori and his charting of the uncanny valley in relation to robotics, and the need for a Watson-type synthesis of all the robotics-related scientific papers produced every year. Let me explain. Uncanny Valley: Almost all of the presentations at…