The latest episode of the Robots podcast interviews two experts in robot learning. Andrea Thomaz from Georgia Tech studies how humans teach and how humanoids learn with the goal to improve human-robot interaction. Among other things, Thomaz has designed her

In an appropriate follow up to yesterday's article on IBM's large scale cortical simulation, comes news from brain researchers at Queen Mary, University of London and Cambridge University. Lars Chittka and other researchers, who have been studying both computer simulations

IBM announced today a new advance in the simulation of biological brains on computer hardware. As part of the DARPA SyNAPSE project, the Cognitive Computer Team at the IBM Almaden Research Center has achieved a large-scale simulation based on a