Researchers teach computers how to learn from manuals; humans prepare for computer domination

07/13/2011, One of the main reasons that people have problems when operating a computer or some unfamiliar gadget is their reluctance to read the manual. I’m pretty sure all of us have been told at some point in our life to [...]

Graspy, the PR2 robot, knows how to read

05/23/2011, The folks over at the University of Pennsylvania were one of the recipients of the Willow Garage PR2 robot giveaway program, last year, and now it looks like they’ve managed to program it into doing something useful. The engineers recently [...]

Why read tweets when Twimal reads them to you?

03/28/2011, For those of you who are too lazy to even glance at your screen whenever you get an update from Twitter, boy do we have some good news for you. The folks over at Takara Tomy in Japan have announced [...]