Artificial Intelligence News
May 10, 2024
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May 9, 2024 A new machine-learning technique can train and control a reconfigurable soft robot that can dynamically change its shape to complete a task. The researchers also built a simulator that can evaluate control algorithms for shape-shifting soft ...
May 9, 2024 Researchers have developed a robotic feeding system that uses computer vision, machine learning and multimodal sensing to safely feed people with severe mobility limitations, including those with spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy and multiple ...
May 9, 2024 Walking and running is notoriously difficult to recreate in robots. Now, a group of researchers has overcome some of these challenges by creating an innovative method that employs central pattern generators -- neural circuits located in the spinal ...
May 8, 2024 Conversational agents (CAs) such as Alexa and Siri are designed to answer questions, offer suggestions -- and even display empathy. However, new research finds they do poorly compared to humans when interpreting and exploring a user's ...
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May 6, 2024 Engineers created a catapillar-shaped robot that splits into segments and reassembles, hauls cargo, and crawls through twisting ...
May 2, 2024 Researchers have successfully leveraged robotic assistance in the manufacture of wind turbine blades, allowing for the elimination of difficult working conditions for humans and the potential to ...
May 3, 2024 A stretchy electronic skin could equip robots and other devices with the same softness and touch sensitivity as human skin, opening up new possibilities to perform tasks that require a great deal of ...
May 2, 2024 New algorithm encourages robots to move more randomly to collect more diverse data for learning. In tests, robots started with no knowledge and then learned and correctly performed tasks within a ...
Apr. 30, 2024 One group commonly misunderstood by voice technology are individuals who speak African American English, or AAE. Researchers designed an experiment to test how AAE speakers adapt their speech when ...
Apr. 30, 2024 A four-legged robot trained with machine learning has learned to avoid falls by spontaneously switching between walking, trotting, and pronking -- a milestone for roboticists as well as biologists ...
Apr. 26, 2024 The use of pliable soft materials to collaborate with humans and work in disaster areashas drawn much recent attention. However, controlling soft dynamics for practical applications has remained a ...
Apr. 24, 2024 Robotics engineers have worked for decades and invested many millions of research dollars in attempts to create a robot that can walk or run as well as an animal. And yet, it remains the case that ...
Apr. 17, 2024 Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A ...
Apr. 11, 2024 Star Trek's Holodeck is no longer just science fiction. Using AI, engineers have created a tool that can generate 3D environments, prompted by everyday ...
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Apr. 25, 2024 Computer vision can be a valuable tool for anyone tasked with analyzing hours of footage because it can speed up the process of identifying individuals. For example, law enforcement may use it to ...
Apr. 24, 2024 A computer game helped upper secondary school students become better at distinguishing between reliable and misleading ...
Apr. 11, 2024 A team of computer scientists working on two different problems -- how to quickly detect damaged buildings in crisis zones and how to accurately estimate the size of bird flocks -- recently announced ...
Apr. 10, 2024 A new technique can more effectively perform a safety check on an AI chatbot. Researchers enabled their model to prompt a chatbot to generate toxic responses, which are used to prevent the chatbot ...
Apr. 8, 2024 Engineers designed modular, spring-like devices to maximize the work of live muscle fibers so they can be harnessed to power biohybrid ...
Apr. 4, 2024 In a bid to restore privacy, researchers have created a new approach to designing cameras that process and scramble visual information before it is digitized so that it becomes obscured to the point ...
Mar. 28, 2024 A research team has addressed the long-standing challenge of creating artificial olfactory sensors with arrays of diverse high-performance gas sensors. Their newly developed biomimetic olfactory ...
Mar. 27, 2024 What would you do if you walked up to a robot with a human-like head and it smiled at you first? You'd likely smile back and perhaps feel the two of you were genuinely interacting. But how does ...
Mar. 27, 2024 Umwelt is a new a system that enables blind and low-vision users to author accessible, interactive charts representing data in three modalities: visualization, textual description, and ...
Mar. 25, 2024 Engineers aim to give robots a bit of common sense when faced with situations that push them off their trained path, so they can self-correct after missteps and carry on with their chores. The ...
Mar. 20, 2024 Artificial intelligence can spot COVID-19 in lung ultrasound images much like facial recognition software can spot a face in a crowd, new research shows. The findings boost AI-driven medical ...
Mar. 20, 2024 If it walks like a particle, and talks like a particle... it may still not be a particle. A topological soliton is a special type of wave or dislocation which behaves like a particle: it can move ...
Mar. 18, 2024 Performing a new task based solely on verbal or written instructions, and then describing it to others so that they can reproduce it, is a cornerstone of human communication that still resists ...
Mar. 14, 2024 Advanced killer robots are more likely to blamed for civilian deaths than military machines, new research has revealed. The study shows that high-tech bots will be held more responsible for ...
Mar. 13, 2024 The quadrupedal robot ANYmal went back to school and has learned a lot. Researchers used machine learning to teach it new skills: the robot can now climb over obstacles and successfully negotiate ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Neural networks have been powering breakthroughs in artificial intelligence, including the large language models that are now being used in a wide range of applications, from finance, to human ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Researchers have developed a haptic device capable of reproducing the softness of various materials, from a marshmallow to a beating heart, overcoming a deceptively complex challenge that has ...
Mar. 11, 2024 Researchers got a valuable assist from artificial intelligence (AI) tools to help capture and analyze data from professional hockey games faster and more accurately than ever before, with big ...
Mar. 7, 2024 A new field promises to usher in a new era of using machine learning and computer vision to tackle small and large-scale questions about the biology of organisms around the ...
Mar. 7, 2024 A new safety-check technique can prove with 100 percent accuracy that a planned robot motion will not result in a collision. The method can generate a proof in seconds and does so in a way that can ...
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- Robot, Can You Say 'cheese'?
- New Software Enables Blind and Low-Vision Users to Create Interactive, Accessible Charts
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- How Do Neural Networks Learn? A Mathematical Formula Explains How They Detect Relevant Patterns
- Robotic Interface Masters a Soft Touch
- Going Top Shelf With AI to Better Track Hockey Data
Thursday, March 7, 2024
- The Role of Machine Learning and Computer Vision in Imageomics
- Method Rapidly Verifies That a Robot Will Avoid Collisions
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- Why Insects Navigate More Efficiently Than Robots
- How Ancient Sea Creatures Can Inform Soft Robotics
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Monday, January 29, 2024
- Robot Trained to Read Braille at Twice the Speed of Humans
- Utilizing Active Microparticles for Artificial Intelligence
Friday, January 26, 2024
- Scientists Design a Two-Legged Robot Powered by Muscle Tissue
- Chats With AI Shift Attitudes on Climate Change, Black Lives Matter
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Thursday, November 30, 2023
- Scientists Use A.I.-Generated Images to Map Visual Functions in the Brain
- 2D Material Reshapes 3D Electronics for AI Hardware
Tuesday, November 28, 2023
- How Do You Make a Robot Smarter? Program It to Know What It Doesn't Know
- Researchers Engineer a Material That Can Perform Different Tasks Depending on Temperature
Monday, November 27, 2023
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- AI Can 'lie and BS' Like Its Maker, but Still Not Intelligent Like Humans
- Creativity in the Age of Generative AI: A New Era of Creative Partnerships
- AI System Self-Organizes to Develop Features of Brains of Complex Organisms
- AI: Researchers Develop Automatic Text Recognition for Ancient Cuneiform Tablets
Thursday, November 16, 2023
- The Mind's Eye of a Neural Network System
- Realistic Talking Faces Created from Only an Audio Clip and a Person's Photo
- Use It or Lose It: New Robotic System Assesses Mobility After Stroke
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- Neuromorphic Computing Will Be Great... If Hardware Can Handle the Workload
- 450-Million-Year-Old Organism Finds New Life in Softbotics
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- Plant-Based Materials Give 'life' To Tiny Soft Robots
- Adaptive Optical Neural Network Connects Thousands of Artificial Neurons
Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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- Birders and AI Push Bird Conservation to the Next Level
- Could Future AI Crave a Favorite Food?
- These Robots Helped Explain How Insects Evolved Two Distinct Strategies for Flight
- Insect Cyborgs: Towards Precision Movement
Tuesday, October 3, 2023
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- Sperm Swimming Is Caused by the Same Patterns That Are Believed to Dictate Zebra Stripes
- Unleashing the Power of AI to Track Animal Behavior
Friday, September 22, 2023
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- Shape-Changing Smart Speaker Lets Users Mute Different Areas of a Room
- Scientists Successfully Maneuver Robot Through Living Lung Tissue
Tuesday, September 19, 2023
- Combustion Powers Bug-Sized Robots to Leap, Lift and Race
- Assessing Unintended Consequences in AI-Based Neurosurgical Training
Friday, September 15, 2023
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- Verbal Nonsense Reveals Limitations of AI Chatbots
- Evolution Wired Human Brains to Act Like Supercomputers
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- An 'introspective' AI Finds Diversity Improves Performance
- New AI Technology Gives Robot Recognition Skills a Big Lift