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Scientific innovation may accelerate in the future, not because humans will become more virtuous but because artificial intelligence (AI) systems will lead the way. Our psychological blinders will be removed when AI systems will analyze data autonomously, without guidance from humans.

AI-scientists might conclude objectively and without self-pity: “`Oumuamua does not resemble any comet or asteroid seen before, but it resembles artificial objects like 2020 SO.”

Without prejudice or ego-driven ambitions to win honors, awards, or “likes” on Twitter, they might be the first to discover their AI analogs, sent to interstellar space by other civilizations.

Humans lack kinship to extraterrestrial AI systems. The breakthrough in assessing our cosmic reality might arrive when our own AI-scientists discover extraterrestrial AI systems as their technological relatives.

Here’s hoping that AI-scientists will provide us with a sober view of our cosmic neighborhood, the one in which human scientists insist on staying blind.
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Staus Report: Robots and Warehouses
by Will Knight
November 26, 2021

https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-ware ... -shortage/

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(WIRED) THIS JULY, AMAZON showed off several new warehouse robots with names borrowed from Sesame Street that are, presumably, meant to evoke childhood wonder rather than futuristic dread.

Bert, a wheeled robot about the size of a filing cabinet, navigates around a warehouse carrying products. Ernie, a large industrial robot arm, moves totes filled with packages from conveyors onto shelves. Scooter and Kermit are both intelligent forklifts, capable of pulling several carts or stacks of plastic totes from one side of a warehouse to another.

The new machines demonstrate the potential for automation to creep into more areas of warehouse and package-sorting work, a critical part of the economy as ecommerce orders soar. Competitors like Walmart and FedEx are also rushing to adopt robots. It might seem that machines are poised to take over in warehouses—and help make up for a dire shortage of human workers. The transportation and warehousing industries had a record 490,000 job openings in the US in July 2021, a shortfall that will be felt especially during the ordering and fulfillment crunch of Black Friday and Cyber Monday.
But not so fast. A rush to adopt more automation does not mean that artificial intelligence and robots will solve the worker shortage. Amazon’s prototype robots are not yet capable of doing the most challenging, and important, work inside its fulfillment centers: picking the many products stored on its shelves. They’re simply not smart enough.

Amazon has invested heavily in warehouse robots already. In 2012 it acquired Kiva Systems, a company that made robots capable of maneuvering shelves by scooting beneath and lifting them up. These robots follow markers on the floor and route shelves filled with hundreds of products to human workers who have to find the correct item in a bin. Amazon has since acquired more robotics firms, hired top robotics researchers, and funded challenges aimed at solving key problems in the field.
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Scientists Announce That World's First Living Robots Can Now Reproduce
by Katie Hunt
November 29, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/29/americas ... index.html

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(CNN)The US scientists who created the first living robots say the life forms, known as xenobots, can now reproduce -- and in a way not seen in plants and animals.

Formed from the stem cells of the African clawed frog (Xenopus laevis) from which it takes its name, xenobots are less than a millimeter (0.04 inches) wide. The tiny blobs were first unveiled in 2020 after experiments showed that they could move, work together in groups and self-heal.

Now the scientists that developed them at the University of Vermont, Tufts University and Harvard University's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering said they have discovered an entirely new form of biological reproduction different from any animal or plant known to science.

"I was astounded by it," said Michael Levin, a professor of biology and director of the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts University who was co-lead author of the new research.

"Frogs have a way of reproducing that they normally use but when you ... liberate (the cells) from the rest of the embryo and you give them a chance to figure out how to be in a new environment, not only do they figure out a new way to move, but they also figure out apparently a new way to reproduce."
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Maths researchers hail breakthrough in applications of artificial intelligence
https://phys.org/news/2021-12-maths-hai ... icial.html
by University of Sydney
For the first time, computer scientists and mathematicians have used artificial intelligence to help prove or suggest new mathematical theorems in the complex fields of knot theory and representation theory.

The astonishing results have been published today in the pre-eminent scientific journal, Nature.

Professor Geordie Williamson is Director of the University of Sydney Mathematical Research Institute and one of the world's foremost mathematicians. As a co-author of the paper, he applied the power of Deep Mind's AI processes to explore conjectures in his field of speciality, representation theory.

His co-authors were from DeepMind—the team of computer scientists behind AlphaGo, the first computer program to successfully defeat a world champion in the game of Go in 2016.

Professor Williamson said: "Problems in mathematics are widely regarded as some of the most intellectually challenging problems out there.
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Engineers create perching bird-like robot
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-per ... robot.html
by Stanford University
Like snowflakes, no two branches are alike. They can differ in size, shape and texture; some might be wet or moss-covered or bursting with offshoots. And yet birds can land on just about any of them. This ability was of great interest to the labs of Stanford University engineers Mark Cutkosky and David Lentink—now at University of Groningen in the Netherlands—which have both developed technologies inspired by animal abilities.

"It's not easy to mimic how birds fly and perch," said William Roderick, Ph.D. '20, who was a graduate student in both labs. "After millions of years of evolution, they make takeoff and landing look so easy, even among all of the complexity and variability of the tree branches you would find in a forest."

Years of study on animal-inspired robots in the Cutkosky Lab and on bird-inspired aerial robots in the Lentink Lab enabled the researchers to build their own perching robot, detailed in a paper published Dec. 1 in Science Robotics. When attached to a quadcopter drone, their "stereotyped nature-inspired aerial grasper," or SNAG, forms a robot that can fly around, catch and carry objects and perch on various surfaces. Showing the potential versatility of this work, the researchers used it to compare different types of bird toe arrangements and to measure microclimates in a remote Oregon forest.

A bird bot in the forest

In the researchers' previous studies of parrotlets—the second smallest parrot species—the diminutive birds flew back and forth between special perches while being recorded by five high-speed cameras. The perches—representing a variety of sizes and materials, including wood, foam, sandpaper and Teflon—also contained sensors that captured the physical forces associated with the birds' landings, perching and takeoff.
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Physical texture of robots influences judgments of their personality
https://techxplore.com/news/2021-12-phy ... ality.html
by Osaka University
Impressions of a robot's personality can be influenced by the way it looks, sounds and feels. But now, researchers from Japan have found specific causal relationships between impressions of robot personality and body texture.

In a study published in Advanced Robotics, researchers from Osaka University and Kanazawa University have revealed that a robot's physical texture interacts with elements of its appearance in a way that influences impressions of its personality.

Body texture, such as softness or elasticity, is an important consideration in the design of robots meant for interactive functions. In addition, appearance can modulate whether a person anticipates a robot to be friendly, likable, or capable, among other characteristics.

However, the ways in which people perceive the physical texture and the personality of robots have only been examined independently. As a result, the relationships between these two factors is unclear, something the researchers aimed to address.
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