U.S. Genomics is even more ambitious: It hopes to develop a machine that can directly read a single DNA molecule.

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Google Print also complemented efforts within the company to develop perfect machine language translation, which means that some day a scanned book will theoretically be readable in any language, anywhere in the world.

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He said the theory was sound, but it would probably prove very difficult to develop a machine which could be of practical benefit to patients, not least because liver cells did not survive for very long outside the body.

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In May 2005, when he was stepping down as chairman of Intel, Grove asked Eric Dishman, the head of research at what would later become Intel's digital health division, if he could develop a machine that would objectively measure whether a patient was getting worse.

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Hargrave's aeronautical journals and drawings illustrate his lifelong project to develop a practical flying machine and power plant in Australia.

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The company is involved in a European Union programme to develop technology, such as machine vision, to make robots cleverer.

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The U.S. Navy has contracted with BAE Systems and, as a subcontractor, Boeing, to develop an integrated weapons system that combines both lasers and machine guns.

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After several iterations and teaching the machine what answers are accurate, it is expected that Watson will develop enough expertise to assist a doctor in a practical situation.

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