Brainy robots start stepping into daily life

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Robot cars drive themselves across the desert, electronic eyes perform lifeguard duty in swimming pools, and virtual enemies with humanlike behavior battle video game players.
These are some fruits of the research field known as artificial intelligence, where reality is finally catching up to the science fiction hype. A half-century after the term was coined, both scientists and engineers say they are making rapid progress in simulating the human brain, and their work is finding its way into a new wave of real-world products.

These advances can also be seen in the emergence of bold new projects intended to create more ambitious machines that can improve safety and security, entertain and inform, or just handle everyday tasks.

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