The Intel Developer Forum this week in San Franscisco, featured Intel Chief Technology Officer Justin Rattner, who showcased various technologies in computing, robotics, and communication that he cited as evidence that Ray Kurzweil's concept of "singularity," is pending. Singularity is the point in time when machine intelligence surpasses human intelligence.
Here, Siddartha Srinivasan of Intel Research Pittsburgh shows off a prototype mobile robot called Herb, that is able to create a 3D model of its world, moving through it without bumping into objects and grasping objects such as mugs on the way.
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