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Researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh, Cambridge and Sheffield are working on a new project over the next five years to develop new voice-activated devices that interact with people in a natural and intelligent way.

What does it really mean to love? Scientists at the National University of Singapore are working on a new project that is coming up against that question. The team's mission is to create the possibility of love between a human and a robot.

When one thinks about wisdom, images of the Dalai Lama, Gandhi, Martin Luther King Jr. or Nelson Mandela rapidly pop into mind. It is no wonder that the idea of artificial wisdom sounds nonsensical, if the implicit aim is to replicate any of these historical figures. It is something akin to expecting an artificial Einstein coming from an AI lab next week.

Look out Nevada: Google's autonomous cars are making their way toward you! We learned about the beginnings of Google's ambitious project several months ago, and it is now becoming clear that Google is making its next move by slowly building a path to make their technology fully legal.

IGI Global would like to thank Dr. David Casacuberta for contributing this guest editorial post.