Sentences with word «humanlike»

Regardless of the precise cause, Tocheri says: «It provides further support for the hypothesis that australopithecines... actually used their hands in more humanlike ways.»

Summary: A young programmer (Caleb) wins a trip to visit a computer genius's (Nathan) compound where he will get to administer a Turing test (designed to test whether a machine is capable of humanlike intelligence) to a potentially sentient robot (Ava).

Previous work has shown a discomfort with humanlike robots, with people ascribing more emotions to them.

Scientists think so, and they've been coming for years to the Middle Awash region, as well as points south, to learn when and how humanlike species diverged from the great apes.

As he earned a master's degree at Worcester Polytechnic Institute and then a Ph.D. at MIT, he developed an interest in humanlike robots and artificial intelligence.

His reasoning for this is that another habilis fossil (OH 8, a set of foot bones) had been claimed by Oxnard and Lisowski to be not as humanlike as previously thought.

New research suggests that there may be a deep biomechanical reason governing the gaits we choose in different situations, and understanding it could help scientists design better prosthetic limbs and even build more humanlike robots.

«But these results suggest the transition from apelike to humanlike ways of thinking and behaving arose surprisingly early.»

Even if Mars ever supported microbial life form (s), that does not mean it could support or even could have ever supported humanlike life form.

On the more difficult problems, they automatically received a hint from an onscreen computer icon — some participants saw a computer «helper» with humanlike features including a face and speech bubble, whereas others saw a helper that looked like a regular computer.

The scientists also suggest that Neandertals, another species, may have evolved from an isolated humanlike population in western Asia during ice ages.

They don't sound very humanlike in this form but consider this: some of these were generated with only a few audio samples of random spoken conversation.

Groove patterns on the surface of modern chimpanzee brains throw a monkey wrench into proposals that some ancient southern African hominids evolved humanlike brain characteristics, a new study suggests.

Similar in size and weight to a modern human, and with humanlike hands and feet, the new species has a braincase more similar in size to earlier ancestors living two million to four million years ago, as well as shoulders, pelvis, and ribcage more closely resembling earlier hominins than modern humans.

The narrative's epicentre features two blue - faced aliens nevertheless humanlike figures emerging from the sea and walking towards the shore, where they are brutally confronted by a primitive native tribe, attacked and eliminated.

All we know is that Bixby will exhibit humanlike intelligence, uses a natural way to ask and respond to questions, and supports nesting context (where you ask it several questions that relate to each other).

Recent research has found that mice make humanlike facial expressions when they are in pain.

But some cases already exist where a more humanlike artificial figure could prove helpful.

«We were amazed — the voiceprint really reminded us of humanlike sounds and unlike normal whale sounds,» researcher Sam Ridgway, neurobiologist, research veterinarian and president of the National Marine Mammal Foundation, told LiveScience.

At first naturalists were not sure what to make of the funny - looking humanlike bones.

Expanded tissue folds around those grooves also follow a distinctly humanlike pattern not observed chimps, he argues.

There are both apelike and familiarly humanlike aspects of her anatomy, but her body is not identical to either.

That kind of advanced visual processing requires significant artificial intelligence (AI)-- the ability to perform humanlike cognitive tasks such as reasoning, generalizing and learning from past experience.

There are some suggestive similarities: Both chimps and bonobos have some very humanlike behaviors, the former engaging in warfare and the latter being known for their playfulness, he says, and there may be other shared traits as well.

Pigs have the most humanlike thyroid glands.

Its eyes, however, have been described as almost humanlike, and impossible to resist.

They rated both how humanlike (realistic) the hands were and how eerie they were, defined as «mysterious, strange, or unexpected as to send a chill up the spine.»

Humans then migrated to the other continents, where they lived for a time alongside humanlike relatives known as hominins.

In the end, the work of more than 60 researchers yielded a picture of «a relatively tall, skinny hominid with long legs, humanlike feet, with a core and shoulder that is primitive,» Berger says.

Using the Queller AI to make the AI behave in a more humanlike fashion while offering a wider range of difficulty options.

It's got to behave or look humanlike.

Analysis of a pigmentation gene in Neandertals suggests that the extinct hominids had humanlike skin color patterns

When people who carry it encounter certain invading pathogens that produce humanlike proteins, their immune cells might be unusually prone to attacking their own body's cells as they pursue the interloper.

H. naledi, a small - brained species with many humanlike skeletal features, inhabited southern Africa close to 300,000 years ago (SN: 6/10/17, p. 6).

Today dozens of labs around the world are working on humanlike hands, legs, torsos, and the like, not because the researchers have read too much science fiction but because this approach represents the best solution to real problems.

The pelvis from a partial Ardipithecus ramidus skeleton nicknamed Ardi (SN: 1/16/10, p. 22) bears evidence of an efficient, humanlike walk combined with plenty of hip power for apelike climbing, says a team led by biological...

In future work, Stein plans to see whether people feel more comfortable with humanlike virtual agents when they feel they have control over the agents» behavior.

AI researchers also have a grander aspiration: to create a well - rounded and thus more humanlike intelligent agent.

Drawings showed amazingly humanlike creatures cavorting underwater.

66 Hobbit Wars Heat Up Evidence from 2006 has sharpened speculation about humanlike bones discovered in an Indonesian cave...

In addition, the so - called «hobbits,» a short species known to scientists as Homo floresiensis, also may have evolved from other isolated humanlike species.

«I love pumpkins because of their humorous form, warm feeling, and humanlike quality of form,» she said in an interview with Louisiana Channel.

Salon Semblance As grooming facilities offer more humanlike spa services for dogs such as mud baths, hydrotherapy, aromatherapy, and a wide selection of hair and skin treatments, consumers» standards also are increasing.

In September Michael Skinner of Washington State University announced that his lab rats inherit, epigenetically, their parents» propensity for a variety of humanlike diseases, including breast cancer, kidney disease, and high cholesterol.

Luckily enough, it generally suits the role and he has other actors to appear humanlike around him.

«Often, these help systems adopt humanlike features; however, the effects of these kinds of help systems have never been tested.»