Its shape indicates the diminutive, human-like species Australopithecus afarensis had arches in its feet.
Our acceptance of robots increases as robots get more human-like but only up to a point.
This contest will accelerate an already expanding market of robots able to do human-like tasks.
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From their constant human-like murmuring to their upright stances, there is something comforting about meerkats.
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Also, one of her six children is allergic to dog hair, so Petey's coarse, human-like hair is ideal.
Some felt the prints suggested a human-like gait but others were not convinced.
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It provides a human-like experience of being known by some other, but it is only a human-ish experience of such empathy.
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"If it gets too human-like, people are very fearful, " said Mr. Haass.
The fact that it has human-like features suggests that human-chimp speciation may have occurred over a long period with episodes of hybridisation between the emerging species.
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Just in time for Halloween, Jarre's new Aeroskull dock embodies 70 watts of total power in a human-like cranium, complete with a pair of speaker-packing shades.
Though it may sound like science fiction, a renowned South Korean robotics expert believes he has developed the first generation of technology to give robots human-like qualities.
The whales are known as "canaries of the sea" for their high-pitched chirps, but while a number of anecdotal reports have described whales making human-like speech, none had ever been recorded.
However, Dr Reich points out, if humans and chimpanzees had undergone an initial separation at this time, it could account for why the skull has human-like features, including a relatively flat face without a protruding snout.
One potential remedy is to create a face-to-virtual-face interaction with a helpful, friendly looking, online sales assistant in the hope that, seeing a human-like figure who responds in a human manner, the customer will forge a relationship with the online business.
The current, beta version of Siri can talk to you in an uncannily human-like way about the weather or where to get dinner, but if you ask it about anything in the news, the best it can do is refer you to Google.
But Data -- named for the "Star Trek" android that yearns to be human -- and robots like him lack certain human attributes, most notably experience.
This was the story of a man who wanted to completely figure out and embody what it means to be human, and just as completely figure out what computing in service of the fully-human should look like.
Building a robot that can stand and walk on two legs like a human is challenging enough -- but what about a robot that swims like a human?
Like human-focused equivalents, there will also be provisions for sharing your dog's efforts, but thankfully only with vets and research institutions.
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"The Hurt Locker" looks at the whole condition of war and endeavor and -- like they say -- war is human abrasion.
Because it's a human invention, science - just like religion - will always be used for all kinds of purposes, good and bad.
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He said scientists have identified 95% of asteroids more than a half-mile in diameter -- the kind that threaten human existence if they strike Earth, like the six-mile-wide one believed to have wiped out dinosaurs 65 million years ago -- and found none on a collision course with the planet.
Start-up Rypple brings social networking tools to human resources departments, upending practices like the often-dreaded annual performance reviews.
But more than any other actor, even Henry Fonda's folksy "Young Mr. Lincoln" (1939), Day-Lewis' version seems like a likable, three-dimensional human being.
"I felt the tension out there in a situation like that - you wouldn't be human if you didn't feel like that, " said O'Sullivan.
Trying to make nanowires like this using human-engineered manufacturing processes would be expensive, if not impossible.
Now, Workday is a full-blown enterprise resource planning (ERP) operator, providing must-have functions like human resources, payroll and financials.
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It became less about the emotional moments and the human connection, like the father-son outing, that gave the original commercial its powerful voice.
In its early years, the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights consisted of a closet-like office and a computer that Jones had brought from his apartment.
What the Oregon scientists have done is to deliver the baby that the would-be human cloners have been waiting for 15 years -- what looks like a reliable technique for creating cloned embryos.
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