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• Gesture Interfaces for Automotive Control - Interesting article looking at ways to drive and use mobile phones etc.
• OHSU Press release - Regarding speech convergence. People talking to TTS systems will mimick the computer's voice.
• Water Basketball Robot - Slashdot posting.
• Physicist Michio Kaku expounds on the future of computers - Thanks to Ruslan Zenin.
• Dragonfly trick makes missiles harder to dodge - Dragonfly trajectories learnt by a neural-network computer! Thanks to John Manslow.

• Smart Bricks, or a Dumb Idea? - Wired article (see previous posting)
• Your Brain May Have Amazing Powers - Slashdot posting.
• Honda unveils crash-warning device - MSNBC reports.
• Language, music, syntax and the brain - Nature reports.

• Artificial Beings Evolve Realistically - From MIT Technology Review.
• Imagine Machines That Can See - Wired article.
• Pick a Language, Any Language - Build an application in a month that can translate English into any random language!
• ROBO SPACE - How Space Perception Seperates Man From Machine. Short Wired article.
• Artbots - The Robot Talent Show.
• Aircraft That Will Repair Themselves In Flight
• Self-drive cars ahead - Coming soon to a street near you.
• Weed-Killing Robot Shown to Cut Need for Herbicide - Reuters article.
• Kiro, the Foosball Robot - Slashdot posting.
• Carnegie Mellon To Build, Test Robotic Vehicle - For the US Marines Tactical Unmanned Ground Vehicle.

• When Things Start To Think - Entire 14 chapter book online!
• Mimicry makes computers the user's friend - New Scientist article.
• Roaches today, robots tomorrow - Stanford team's models mimic domestic pests' agility, speed.
• Robots digitizing libraries - 1000 pages an hour scanned!
• A New Way To Explore The Surface Of Mars - NASA press release on their "tumbleweed" rover.
• This Palm Reads Your Mind - Fascinating article, despite the rather misleading title.
• Introduction to Java Robot Class in Java - Developer.com article.
• Designing Robots That can Reason and React - Interesting SpaceDaily article.
• Japan Researchers Hope Robots Will Save Lives - Rescue robots article from Reuters.
• Biometrics ID system well on way toward commercial use in Japan - Japan Times articles.
• Two robots ready for Rover mission launch in June
• Uber-Soldier Needs Much Debugging - Discusses the nano-soldier the US is working on.

• Scientific Computing on the Sony Playstation 2 - ...and I enjoy showing off one PS2Linux kit!
• Gesture Your Mouse Goodbye - Fingerworks' iGesture looks to replace the mouse.
• A Spy Machine of DARPA's Dreams - The controversial LifeLog.
• Ghosts 'all in the mind' - A possible explanation for ghosts?
• Perfect eyebrows calculated - Nice to know image analysis is being put to good use...
• Why Microsoft won't make your car crash - Microsoft-powered cars will be safe, apparently.
• Can a Keyboard Light the Way? - More about projected keyboards.
• Shocking New Jacket Hits Street - A must-read. Check the videos too!

• Artificial life research switches to saving real lives - EEtimes article discussing the Avida project.
• Toys for Tots Get Ultratechie - Smart toys for toddlers.
• Robot cleaner hits the shops - For £999 it had better do a good job.
• Trilobite from Electrolux - Electrolux's robotic hoover website.
• My Son, the Robot - Will technology end human life as we know it? Yes, says Bill McKibben.
• Computers That Speak Your Language - Discusses applications in customer service and more.
• Natural Language: Beyond the Conversation - Intersting Technology Review article.
• Simulated Evolution Gets Complex - Short article seemingly discussing Avida too.
• AIBO Robot Dog Soccer Competition - More from Slashdot on the Robocup.
• Hybrid Robot Uses Rat Brain - Slashdot posting on hybrid robot mentioned a few days ago here.
• Wired to the Brain of a Rat, a Robot Takes On the World - NY Times article on the hybrid robot.
• New breed of robots, gizmos take war to next level - USA Today article.

• Metal Gear Solid 3 Impressions - If you have Gamespot Complete, the 10 minute demo video is a must.
• New virtual reality array allows immersive experience without the disorienting 3-D goggles

Additionally, I uploaded a new game review of Yager for the XBOX. This is a Generation5 first, since the game is yet to be released! Also, I uploaded a few more Generation5 Mobile shots.

• AI Founder Blasts Modern Research - Marvin Minsky hates 'stupid little robots' and lauds Cyc.
• Self-Repairing Computers - Good 5-page article from Scientific American.
• Digital Darwin - A Slashdot posting regarding Caltech's Avida GA program. Provides numerous links.
• A Gaggle of Robot Movies - From Robots.net.
• Man or Machine? (Part 1 of 3): Human or Robot? - General article with an emphasis on Ray Kurzweil.
• 'Digital organisms' illuminate evolution - Interesting New Scientist article.
• Chess Championship: Humans vs. Computer - More on AI and chess.

• RoboCup 2003 - Slashdot article with a variety of pertinent links.
• Robot Dogs Score Goal for Science - Discusses the latest AIBO soccer teams.
• Military robots to get swarm intelligence - Thanks to John Manslow for this.
• CMU establishes "The Robot Hall of Fame" - Press release from CMU.
• The Grammar of Sound - New software lets you index and search audio 10,000 faster than humans!
• ScanSoft to acquire SpeechWorks - Scansoft to dominate speech recognition market.
• RoboEducators - July educational robotics workshops.
• Artificial intellect really thinking? - New article about age-old question.
• Georgia Tech researchers use lab cultures to control robotic device - Very interesting press release.
• Tank-inspired robot set to hunt microbes on Mars

• Microsoft rolls out new automotive platform - Speech Recognition within the car. A related C|Net article.
• Microsoft's plug-and-play biometrics - Plug-and-play fingerprint recognition coming.
• MIT Lab Works To Mimic Spider Silk - SpaceDaily report.
• Einstein and Newton showed signs of autism - Fascinating New Scientist article.

• Wakamaru Bot at Your Service - A Japanese healthcare robot.
• Machine Learning and MP3s - Finally, a program that effectively learns your music tastes!
• Mission to Mars delayed to fix robots - Spacedaily report.
• Software Sorts Tunes - Short article about the ZIP-related music classifier noted earlier this month.
• Pixel-Perfect Digital Clones Are Ready For Their Close-Ups - More on the Matrix 2 special effects.
• Glitches in the Matrix...and how to Fix Them - A breakdown of the Matrix and some of the science involved.

• Police consider lie detector tests - Uses AI! Thanks to John Manslow.
• Intelligent lie-detector is "world-beater" - Press release for above. Thanks again to John.
• Computers that watch while you work - BBC Sci/Tech article.
• Feral Robots - Definitely worth a look.
• In 24-Hour News Times, Real-Time Translation - Pay-per-view article, but abstract is fairly informative.
• The Turing Test - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy updated their Turing Test entry.

• Prepare to Meet Thy Doom - Discusses Doom III and the future of gaming engines.
• 'Time-traveler' Busted for Inside Trading - Bizarre, but intriguing, story! Update: Alex Stapleton pointed out the publications that wrote this article is renowned for making up absurd stories. Doh!

• Cyc-ing out the terrorists - Using Cyc to predict terrorists?
• ROBODEX2003 Overview - Sorry Generation5 wasn't there this year.
• Kansai robots on march amid Astro Boy hoopla - Regarding ROBODEx.
• Robot rover simulates Mars trek - BBC article.
• Software to unzip identity of unknown composers - The technique sounds surprisingly simple.
• Web speech effort gets Microsoft boost - C|Net article.
• Are we doomed yet? - Bill Joy-like article from the guy that scripted Deus Ex!