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We’re still a little hazy as to exactly what ASUS’s new Splendid HD1 “video enhance card” actually does differently than most other 2D-enhanced devices, but the company claims it ratchets up 1080p video quality on both digital and analog outputs, and it’ll fit in right along side those Splendid-based Xondar cards. Of course, it’s also got HDCP (which is a start), but it’s starting to smell a little gimmicky around here, splendid or not.

source:engadget

The robot uprising, it inches ever closer — researchers working on the EU-funded COSPAL project have developed a new robotic AI that they say is the most advanced of its type ever created. Using both learning neural AI techniques and traditional rules-based AI as a control mechanism, the robot can be trained “like a child or a puppy,” and has managed to figure out simple sorting tasks on its own. The next step is to try and integrate the system into a car that can adjust to unforeseen driving conditions, but the researchers in charge aren’t worried about creating an army of KARRs set to mow us all down — according to researcher Michael Felsberg, adult-level AI based on this system probably won’t happen in our lifetimes. On the other hand, we’ve heard machines will match us by 2029 — that’ll be a fun debate to have when we’re all slaving away in the robo-mines.

[Apologies for the terrible photo — sure, COSPAL can develop puppy-level AI, but they’re apparently still rocking a QuickTake 100.]

Read - Physorg article on the COSPAL robot
Read - COSPAL site

source:engadget.com