Gizmag Robot learns to cook by watching YouTube

 Gizmag Robot learns to cook by watching  YouTube Our future is promised to be filled with robots equipped to perform all sorts of jobs, and artificial intelligence will pave the way to making that reality possible. Deep learning has received a lot of attention as of late -- we've detailed it a few times in the past -- and latest among it is a project by researchers using YouTube videos of people cooking to teach robots how to use tools. The efforts were recently detailed in a report available to the public. You've likely heard...

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Ancient Sanskrit text mentioned air travel’

Ancient Sanskrit text mentioned air travel The retired principal of a pilot training centre said at the Indian Science Congress Sunday that the country’s scientists should use technology listed in an ancient Sanskrit text to build indigenous aircraft and promote Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Make in India initiative. Captain Anand Bodas, who was presenting a paper on ‘Ancient Indian Aviation Technology’, claimed that the science of building and flying a plane was recorded by Maharshi Bharadwaj in Brihad Vimana Shastra, written between 6000 BC and 7000 BC, several millenia before the Wright Brothers built...

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Modi's Make in India campaign forward?

Will jingoism dressed up as science take Modi's Make in India campaign forward? On Sunday, the Indian Science Congress that is currently underway in Mumbai had 14 sessions covering a wide range of subjects from number theory to environmental health, but what hogged the headlines was an outlandish claim that 7,000 years ago India had planes that could travel between planets. The speaker who made the claim didn't stop with that. He went on to add finer details of these planes such as their size, number of engines and a RADAR system that...

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