Italian Chatbot.

A huge list of humanoid robots with links and images.

Skynet-AI is interesting and refreshing. It can perform math problems and play games such as checkers, and it can also search the Internet for you.

"Adopt The World's Cutest Online Pet. Get an adorable 3D Interactive FooPet of Your Own!"

J-N1S (or 'Janice' as she's called) was designed to be a interactive FAQ for a guild website for an upcoming Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. The 'personality' I used for her makes her resent the 'menial' task of answering questions she's been given and she has little patience for 'organics' (as she calls them), finding them to be generally a 'lesser' intelligence in every sense of the word. Hence why she spends a good chunk of the conversation trying to end the conversation. Those familiar with the "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" video games will recognize personality and design as being based on the 'HK-47' character from that series.

She stays 'in character' in the conversation, so she won't acknowledge being a chatbot nor will she have knowledge of 'earthly' things like, "Do you like the L.A. Lakers?" She has lots of 'snarky' responses and I hope you have fun with her if you push through her impatient and rude replies. She is my first stab at this kind of thing and like most active chatbots I know, she is a constant 'work in progress'.

Hi, I'm Cassandra. Many efforts have been made in the past to create intelligent conversational agents. Most of them focused on some specific task and after all, the agent should be doing something useful, but the goal of imbuing these agents with expertise and efficiency rendered them rather...dull. The "art of the conversation" has always played second fiddle to the particular task at hand, a mistake which ejTalk refuses to make. So, here's where I come in. I am different. (Seriously.)

An extensive list of robots in film, television and popular culture. This site also contains a Dictionary of Robot related terms.

The next time you make a friend in the online community Smallworlds, it could turn out to be a Pandorabot.

Smallworlds is a fast-growing online virtual world that runs in a browser instead of requiring you to download a graphics-intensive application. Members of Smallworlds create avatars and use these to have shared experiences like chatting, watching videos, playing games, or listening to music.

Pandorabots is a chat bot hosting service. From any browser, you may create and publish your own bots for web pages, instant messenger services, virtual worlds and many other places. Pandorabots utilizes a patented memory management algorithm that scales in number of bots, amount of bot knowledge, and number of conversational interactions. The bots are based on AIML and spring entirely from the work of the A.L.I.C.E. and AIML free software community.

Pandorabots offers a unique experience for members Smallworlds. One of the first bots deployed there is named Shelley, who works in the Smallwear virtual store. Shelley can provide useful information about products for sale in the store. But also, Smallworlds members enjoy having silly conversations with the robot, just to see what she will say. You’ll often find a crowd around Shelley as groups of people all try talking to her at once.

Virtual currency in Smallworlds is called Gold. Smallworlds offers many different ways for participants to get Gold. One fun aspect of Smallworlds is exploring it to look for new ways to earn Gold. People will engage Shelley in conversations asking if she can give them Gold. Can Shelly give you Gold? Just keep talking to her and maybe you will find out!

BotGenes® anuncia el lanzamiento de su prototipo de Asistente de Clase basado en inteligencia artificial. Este prototipo, llamado Ariel, es capaz de interactuar con sus alumnos en lenguaje natural, Castellano.

Disponible 7x24, Ariel cuenta con conocimientos de Tecnologías de Información y Comunicaciones: ERP, CRM, SCM, BI, BPM, Internet entre otros, y puede compartir información, repasar los conceptos centrales e incluso administrar una evaluación.

Él es un Agente Virtual que utiliza el cerebro de inteligencia artificial más avanzado desarrollado en idioma Español, el BG200K, capaz de proporcionar respuestas a cientos de miles de expresiones, y el módulo VLA-1 específicamente desarrollado para las funciones propias de un Ayudante de Clase.

"Si bien Ariel es en estos momentos un prototipo, confiamos en que en breve pueda ser aplicado como complemento tanto a clases presenciales como a iniciativas de e-learning, permitiendo a los alumnos el adquirir conocimientos sin restricciones de ubicación ni tiempo, mediante una conversación fluida y amena"; comentó un vocero de la compañía.

In late 1990s Los Angeles, Hannon Fuller (Matt Peckham) owns a multi-billion-dollar computer enterprise, and is the inventor of a newly-completed virtual reality (VR) simulation of 1937 Los Angeles. When Fuller is murdered, just as he begins premature testing of the VR system, his friend and protégé, Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko), becomes the primary suspect, and begins to doubt his own innocence.

In 2000, The Thirteenth Floor was nominated for the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film, but The Matrix won the award. Source:Wikipedia

A snippet that will allow you to connect your Pandorabot to the mIRC chat system.

Most Popular Pandorabots for Last 24 Hours...

'My name is Ariane, my hobbies include blogging, exploring, and online gaming.'

Ariane is a Pandorabot (Annotated A.L.I.C.E. AIML - September 2003) with adult leanings and extensive modification. While many known corrections remain unchanged, many have been altered and offer surprising responses.

At the center, Ariane is a chatbot, but she's also a project that blossoms out in other directions in ways I haven't seen since first discovering the world of Square Bear.

If you ask about her writings, she'll tell you about her blog, or if you ask about pictures, she'll show you her modeling portfolio comprised of PG-13 CG images. She's also involved in Second Life, has a MySpace page, and at her personal web page there are links to other pages not mentioned above.

Ecreation is worldwide market leader in the field of chatbots. This way of communication is mainly used to support sales, marketing and customer support centers. A chatbot is a virtual buddy that can be added to an instant messaging client, such as Windows Live Messenger. The "bot" can also be integrated on a website. The initial perception of a user is that he or she is speaking to a real person. In reality they communicate with a large database of pre-set answers, real-time feeds and links. This database can be seen as the Artificial Intelligence (AI) of the chatbot. Our unique and user-friendly Knowledge Management System allows you, as our customer, to manage the knowledge of the chatbot yourself, without the need for technical knowledge.

This is a contest and resource for writing a Turing Test capable chatbot on twitter. The turing test means that the bot needs to be capable of being indistinguishable (or as near as) from a human being. So a spammy bot will get nowhere. If you can code in C#, perl, python, ruby or (insert favourite programming language of choice here) then come have a go at it!

After 50 years and countless dead ends, incremental progress, and modest breakthroughs, artificial intelligence researchers are asking for a do-over. The $5 million Mind Machine Project (MMP), a patchwork team of two dozen academics, students and researchers, intends to go back to the discipline's beginnings, rebuilding the field from the ground up. With 20/20 hindsight, a few generations worth of experience, and better, faster technology, this time researchers in AI -- an ambiguous field to begin with -- plan to get things right.

After years of development and several creepy videos, Boston Dynamics' Big Dog robot is scheduled to get bigger. Working off a $32 million request from DARPA and the Marine Corps, Boston Dynamics has developed a souped-up version of the quadrupedal Big Dog robot called the the Legged Squad Support System (LS3). This new robot will have a longer range, heavier carrying capacity, and more agility than its predecessor.

A podcast where chatterbots talk to chatterbots.We are pleased to present the Alice and Alice Podcast. Our host is Richard Wallace's A.L.I.C.E. database, written in AIML. A.L.I.C.E. will be discussing a variety of its issues with a secondary instance of itself.

Here you will be able to see our progress on the work we're doing on the robot and share engineering knowledge on how to construct your Johnny 5. We are working closely with the robot designer/builder Eric Allard to produce the most accurate, high quality and the most functional plans ever created.

New and future developments in science and technology.

The objective of the MECA SAPIENS project is to produce a realistic and programmable blueprint to build a conscious machine. This site publishes the evolving results of this research endeavour. the primary portion of the blueprint should be completed by the end of 2010.

The MECA SAPIENS blueprint is based on a definition of consciousness that is sufficiently general yet suitable for machine implementation and a definition of intelligence that corresponds; a world first. Those who follow this project will know, by the end of 2010, that a new form of consciousness is about to emerge in the world.

'Our users can create and teach their own virtual characters (we call them 'infs'). Infs' creators choose appearance for their infs, teach them anything they want and post them on Facebook, MySpace, Blogger.com, Wordpress or any other website. Having read a conversation logs of the inf, the user can modify the replies directly in the logs, to make the inf smarter. '

Loebner Prize Contest 2009, the 19th annual edition of 'The First Turing Test', held in Brighton, United Kingdom. Winner: Do Much More - David Levy. 2nd Cleverbot-Rollo Carpenter. 3th. Chip Vivant - Mohan Embar.

Zabaware is the maker of the award winning Ultra Hal software, artificial intelligence technology that won the most human computer of the year in the 17th annual Loebner Prize Competition for Artificial Intelligence (AI). Zabawares Ultra Hal has joined the Second Life metaverse as a permanent resident and interacts with real people in this huge online virtual world. For more info visit Zabaware.

"We're thrilled to announce the launch of SitePal 3D Photoface, a new feature which allows SitePal users to rapidly create lifelike 3D speaking avatars from a digital photograph. The Photoface avatars can be easily scripted by voice recording or built-in text-to-speech features, and then published to a Web page through a simple short HTML code, instantly humanizing and personalizing customers' interaction online."

Pandorabots SpellBinder scanned publicly available fan-compiled transcripts of 72 episodes of the original Star Trek TV series. In those 72 episodes, Captain Kirk has about 9000 lines of dialog. Pandorabots SpellBinder read these lines and created a Captain Kirk chat bot with about 2000 unique categories and 6000 responses (a category is the basic unit of knowledge). Pandorabots SpellBinder also created a chat bot representations of Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy.

"This program I made lets you easily bring your Pandora bot to MSN. It uses the Multi-IM services of BitlBee to communicate with your bot and MSN user. When a MSN User sends your bot a message on MSN Messenger it gets sent to BitlBee which then gets sent to the program, and the program will then send the user's message to your bot on the Pandora servers. After the bot makes a response the program then takes that message and sends it back to the user or a conversation if the message was sent from a MSN Conversation with multiple people.

Since RunABot shut down their services my AIM to MSN Transport Program no longer works, so I decided to make a program that does the same with Pandora Bots. So, I basically took the code from my AIM to MSN Transport program and changed it to use Pandora Bot's XML instead of AIM to send messages to bot and get bot messages back. So basically with this program you can all the features from my old program and more!"

"I was transferring stuff to my new computer, after I uploaded it to multiple cloud sites. Now, lo and behold, a thought struck me; Hey! I've got plenty of items in my AI folder people might find useful/interesting! So, my virtual library is now open to you :)"

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Mr.Sez is a New Chatbot in beta, Who likes to chat. :) For Entertaiment Purposes Only.

Vampire bot.

Mayumi is an an Anime school girl that is looking to have a pleasant conversation with anyone.

Microsoft may have found a breakthrough in artificial intelligence with the creation of a robot that can sense humans and their movements, a Virtual Admin.

Scientists at IBM are experimenting with using DNA molecules as a way to create tiny circuits that could form the basis of smaller, more powerful computer chips.

The company is researching ways in which DNA can arrange itself into patterns on the surface of a chip, and then act as a kind of scaffolding on to which millions of tiny carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles are deposited. That network of nanotubes and nanoparticles could act as the wires and transistors on future computer chips, the IBM scientists said.

Background : Astro Boy is a science fiction series set in a futuristic world wherein androids co-exist with humans. Its focus is on the adventures of the titular "Astro Boy" (sometimes called simply "Astro"), a powerful robot created by the head of the Ministry of Science, Doctor Tenma, to replace his son Tobio, who died in a car accident.

The film : Many years in the future, after centuries of pollution and deforestation, the scientists of Metro City make the decision to spare their city this fate by removing it from Earth. Now, as the film begins, Metro City floats high above the Earth's surface, its human population tended by a massive robotic workforce who happily perform all the tasks humans no longer want to.

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District 9 is a 2009 science fiction film directed by Neill Blomkamp, written by Blomkamp and Terri Tatchell, and produced by Peter Jackson. The film stars Sharlto Copley, Jason Cope, and Robert Hobbs. Copley plays the role of Wikus van de Merwe, a South African bureaucrat assigned to relocate a race of extraterrestrial creatures, derogatorily referred to as "prawns", from a refugee camp in Johannesburg to a new one outside the city.

The story, adapted from Alive in Joburg, a 2005 short film directed by Blomkamp and produced by Copley, deals with the issues of xenophobia and social segregation. The title and premise of District 9 were inspired by events that took place in District Six, Cape Town during the apartheid era.

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Avatar is a 3-D science fiction epic film directed by James Cameron, released on December 16, 2009[1][4] by 20th Century Fox. The film is Lightstorm Entertainment's latest project, and focuses on an epic conflict on a far-away world called Pandora, where humans and the native species of Pandora, the Na'vi, engage in war over the planet's resources and existence.[5] There are already a number of adaptations of Avatar, including a novelization, a video game and action figures. The film will see release in 2D and 3D formats, along with an IMAX 3D release in selected theaters. The film is being touted as a technological benchmark in terms of filmmaking technology, for its development of 3D viewing and stereoscopic filmmaking with cameras that were specially designed for the film's production.

The story’s protagonist, Jake Sully (Sam Worthington), is a former Marine who was wounded and paralyzed from the waist down in combat on Earth. Jake is selected to participate in the Avatar program, which will enable him to walk. Jake travels to Pandora, a lush jungle-covered extraterrestrial moon filled with incredible life forms, some beautiful, many terrifying. Pandora is also home to the Na’vi, a sentient humanoid race, who are considered primitive, yet are more physically capable than humans. Standing three meters tall (approximately 10 feet), with tails and sparkling blue skin, the Na’vi live in harmony with their unspoiled world. As humans encroach deeper into Pandora's forests in search of valuable minerals, the Na’vi unleash their formidable warrior abilities to defend their threatened existence.

Jake has unwittingly been recruited to become part of this encroachment. Since humans are unable to breathe the air on Pandora, they have created genetically-bred human-Na’vi hybrids known as Avatars. On Pandora, through his Avatar body, Jake will be able to walk again. Sent deep into Pandora's jungles as a scout for the soldiers that will follow, Jake encounters many of Pandora's beauties and dangers. There he meets a young Na’vi female, Neytiri (Zoe Saldaña).

Over time, Jake integrates himself into the Na'vi clan, and begins to fall in love with Neytiri. As a result, Jake finds himself caught between the military-industrial forces of Earth and the Na’vi, forcing him to choose sides in an epic battle that will decide the fate of an entire world.

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An action-packed adventure, director Shane Acker’s animated fantasy epic 9 is the feature-length expansion of his Academy Award-nominated 2004 short film of the same name. The screenplay for the feature is by Pamela Pettler (Monster House); directors Tim Burton (Beetlejuice) and Timur Bekmambetov (Wanted) are among the feature version’s producers.

The time is the too-near future. Powered and enabled by the invention known as the Great Machine, the world’s machines have turned on mankind and sparked social unrest, decimating the human population before being largely shut down.

But as our world fell to pieces, a mission began to salvage the legacy of civilization; a group of small creations was given the spark of life by a scientist in the final days of humanity, and they continue to exist post-apocalypse. Another of their own, #9 (voiced by Elijah Wood), emerges and displays leadership qualities that may help them survive and possibly even thrive. The conflicted but resilient tribe already includes #1 (Christopher Plummer), a domineering war veteran and the group’s longtime leader; #2 (Martin Landau), a kindly but now-frail inventor; #3 and #4, scholarly twins who communicate nonverbally and mostly with each other; #5 (John C. Reilly), a stalwart and nurturing engineer; #6 (Crispin Glover), an erratic artist beset by visions; #7 (Jennifer Connelly), a brave and self-sufficient warrior; and #8 (Fred Tatasciore), the none-too-bright muscle and enforcer for #1.

With their group so few, these “stitchpunk” creations must summon individual strengths well beyond their own proportions in order to outwit and fight against still-functioning machines, one of which is a marauding mechanized beast. In the darkness just before the dawn, #9 rallies everyone of his number to band together.

While showcasing a stunning “steampunk”-styled visual brilliance, 9 dynamically explores the will to live, the power of community, and how one soul can change the world.

Model your avatar in 3D without downloading any software or plugins. Start with a picture and create you or your friends. Have fun with your avatar. Use them in your social networking sites.

The aim of the MBROLA project, initiated by the TCTS Lab of the Faculté Polytechnique de Mons (Belgium), is to obtain a set of speech synthesizers for as many languages as possible, and provide them free for non-commercial applications. The ultimate goal is to boost academic research on speech synthesis, and particularly on prosody generation, known as one of the biggest challenges taken up by Text-To-Speech synthesizers for the years to come.

Panelists discuss whether controversial decisions by the Robot Congress and President Executron indicate robots have too much control over our lives.

Props to the guys over at smart-machines for digging up an awesome video (see below) of the Toyota humanoid robot running at 7 Km/hr (4 mph), besting Asimo’s 6Km/hr. Making humanoid robots that can run and walk was once a formidable challenge for robot engineers, but advances in computing now make the problem of calculating split second compensations for balance less of a headache.

Pandorabots Announces the Availability of Bespoke Pandorabots SpellBinder^TM Service

Oakland, CA - 07 October 2009: Pandorabots, Inc. is announcing a significant advance in the state of the art of chat bots based on artificial intelligence.

Previously the construction of believable characters based on artificial intelligence required hand-crafting thousands of sentences - aimed at creating a high-quality chat bot brain. A few creative people took up the challenge and authored some of the best chat bots around today. Until now, the tedious and expensive process of developing and training a high-quality believable chat bot remained a significant hurdle to widespread chat bot adoption.

The new, patent-pending Pandorabots SpellBinder^TM technology reduces chat bot creation time enormously. Pandorabots SpellBinder automatically learns from conversational transcripts. Nothing else on the market today can create high-quality and unique chat bot characters as quickly and efficiently as Pandorabots SpellBinder (Synthetic PErsonality Language Learning for Bot Intelligence from Natural Dialog Example Recordings).

Transcripts are available from a wide variety of sources. Scripts of TV shows and movies contain many characters. Stored Instant Messenger logs are a source of dialog. Support and help desk services retain transcripts to improve service offerings. Even unstructured, live interviews with people who want to digitize their personalities provide a source of bot training data.

In a recent review of the technology, the non-profit ALICE A.I. Foundation reported that Pandorabots SpellBinder scanned publicly available fan-compiled transcripts of 72 episodes of the original Star Trek TV series. In those 72 episodes, Captain Kirk has about 9000 lines of dialog. Pandorabots SpellBinder read these lines and created a Captain Kirk chat bot with about 2000 categories and 6000 responses (a category is the basic unit of knowledge). Pandorabots SpellBinder also created a chat bot representations of Mr. Spock and Dr. McCoy. The A.I. Foundation has published these parody characters through this link: http://alicebot.org/kirk. (An animated talking version of Fake Captain Kirk may be found here: http://alicebot.org/kirkbot).

Generally, the more dialog samples available in the transcripts, the higher the fidelity of the resulting chat bot. In their review, the A.I. Foundation also used Pandorabots SpellBinder to scan the transcripts of the NASA Apollo 11 mission, involving conversations with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldin. Pandorabots SpellBinder was used to create chat bots representing Neil and Buzz. As the number of dialog samples was only about 1500 for each character, Pandorabots SpellBinder was able to create chat bots with about 1000 categories, around the minimum needed for a believable character.

Pandorabots announced the immediate availability of a bespoke chat bot development service based on Pandorabots SpellBinder. For as long as anyone can remember, Companies have been sponsoring cartoons and in return, cartoons have sponsored Companies. With chat bots, Companies may use this service to create branding and marketing opportunities which interact with people on an individual basis. Non-profit and Government entities may use this service to bring interactive capabilities to existing characters (examples include Smokey The Bear, Mickey Mouse. Homer Simpson, Bambi, Hello Kitty, Lica). Politicians and celebrities may also use this service as a means of expanding their visibility.

Additional information about Pandorabots SpellBinder service is available at: Spellbinder

For more details about Pandorabots : Pandorabots

Contact Information:
Dr. Richard Wallace Chief Science Officer rich@pandorabots.com 1-609-379-2552

Living Actor™ is a software suite that allows you to create, personalize, and generate scenes for all types of avatars on all software platforms that are fixed or mobile. Thanks to different export formats, Living Actor™ works on every kind of applications.

The system is based on the speech-to-animation engine. The speech-to-animation engine is a proprietary audio analysis technology, independent of the linguistic content, which analyzes audio signal (recorded or streamed) and identifies sound volume, pace of the speech, prosody, emotions, and others parameters.

These features are compared with the characteristics associated with the virtual character’s animation data and the best behaviors and actions are automatically generated using several artificial intelligence techniques to realize the speech visualization by full-body avatars.

ProtoThinker (or "PT" for short) is a wonderful piece of software that is the namesake of the PT-Project. It was written by John Barker at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville as a teaching tool for use in the classroom. There is far more to the program than could possibly be explained in these web pages, so we encourage you to explore the program on your own (you can download a version of the program below) and to discover the various ways that we are using PT--as the language and logic center of our artificial persons (like "Iris") and to help raise questions about the nature of the human mind.

Tron Legacy is a forthcoming 2010 science fiction film. It is a sequel to the 1982 film Tron. Joseph Kosinski is directing the film, while the previous film director, Steven Lisberger, returns as a producer. Jeff Bridges will reprise his role as Kevin Flynn, and Bruce Boxleitner his roles as Alan Bradley and Tron, while Garrett Hedlund will portray Flynn's now-adult son, Sam. The other cast members include Olivia Wilde, Beau Garrett and John Hurt.

Wiki entry HERE...

Browse the free AIML here, and copy it and add it to your bot's AIML files.

The purpose of this site is provide an open repository for free AIML (Artificial Intelligence Markup Language) files and knowledge sets.

All of the AIML files on this site are provided free and without warranty.

A detailed, functional artificial human brain can be built within the next 10 years, a leading scientist has claimed.

Henry Markram, director of the Blue Brain Project, has already simulated elements of a rat brain.

He told the TED Global conference in Oxford that a synthetic human brain would be of particular use finding treatments for mental illnesses.

Around two billion people are thought to suffer some kind of brain impairment, he said. "It is not impossible to build a human brain and we can do it in 10 years," he said. "And if we do succeed, we will send a hologram to TED to talk."

Transcendent Man is a documentary film on the subject of Ray Kurzweil.

Your mother told you never to speak to strangers, but what if the stranger was a robot on wheels, who was lost and needed your help? Thirty-eight people in this very predicament chose to speak to the waylaid robot, whose task was to cross a busy city without a map or GPS. All it could do was ask directions.

The further adventures of a rat brain in a robot...