Japanese telecoms company, Softbank, will be releasing an emotionally aware robot next February. The robot is called ‘Pepper' and will cost less than $2000 on release, company CEO, Masayoshi Son, announced at a presentation. Pepper uses technology acquired from the French robotics company, Aldebaran. You may have heard of Aldbebaran before, its …
Read More »Evolve will have single player, bots and 12+ maps
One of the biggest concerns people have had with Turtle Rock's upcoming monster hunting epic, Evolve, is the same one they had with Titanfall: it forces you to play with other people. Fortunately it turns out, that's simply not true. Evolve won't go the same way as Respawn's game, and …
Read More »Former Sony boss joins new AI company
Jack Tretton, the former President of Sony Computer Entertainment America, has landed himself a job on the advisory board at a new company specialising in artificial intelligence- Genotaur. According to Tretton, Genotaur aims to enhance the way consumers interact with technology and has the resources to do it. Tretton said in …
Read More »Wolfenstein: New Order’s AI looks really dumb
Undoubtedly, today's games are some of the best looking titles that have ever existed and that's true for every year that's gone by before; the march to true to life visuals continues steadily onward. However, something that doesn't always seem to advance in the same way is AI. We all …
Read More »Microsoft officially announces its answer to Siri- Cortana
It has been rumoured for a while but Microsoft has finally officially revealed Cortana, the Windows Phone version of Siri or Google Now. The Halo AI inspired voice assistant will be available in the next Windows Phone 8.1 update which is due to arrive in the US in beta form …
Read More »What’s the probability of a robot rebellion?
In what sounds like the creation for the perfect tech, buddy movie, dream team, philosopher Huw Price, astrophysicist Martin Rees and co-founder of Skype Jaan Tallinn, have come together to work out the chances of technology turning on its masters and doing a Matrix on us. “In the case of …
Read More »KitGuru Gaming – Weekly Round Up
For those tech readers who don’t always get time to check out our game related content at Kitguru gaming – here is a round up of content published in the last week. “A New Way of Playing RPG's” As games move away from controllers and into truly motion-based controls, will …
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