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NETWORK
2010
12 years 11 months ago
2010
IWC
2008
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Science fiction stories seductively portray robots as human. In present reality (early 21st century) robots are machines, even though they can do many things far better than human...
BERTINORO
2005
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2005
Springer
The possibility of building self-aware software fascinated computer scientist since the beginning of computer science. Research in AI, and in particular on software agents, agent s...
CORR
2008
Springer
13 years 4 months ago
2008
Springer
This paper explores the idea that the universe is a virtual reality created by information processing, and relates this strange idea to the findings of modern physics about the ph...
HRI
2006
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
2006
ACM
Domestic service robots have long been a staple of science fiction and commercial visions of the future. Until recently, we have only been able to speculate about what the experie...