Microsoft bets on a robotic future

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http://money.cnn.com/2006/06/20/technology/microsoft_robots.reut/index.htm?cnn=yes

The key in robotics is the design of an artificial intelligence that combines data mining techniques (analytics) and cognitive (human) experience. Microsoft has the basic analytical tools (regression, clustering, average, standard deviation, ranking etc.). The challenge is the application of those tools. The analytical tools determines patterns in the data, but we still need the cognitive exceptions of human experience as the basic benchmark for an AI to develop.