For years, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory engineers and scientists have used an array of sensors and imaging techniques to analyze the physics and processes behind metal 3D printing in an ongoing effort to build higher quality…
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The WTBR 1000 benchtop robot is designed for precision. Source: Weller September 24, 2018       Kayla Matthews Robotics has evolved considerably over the past 70 or so years, becoming ever more capable, efficient, reactive, flexible, and…
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This project features several of our favourite things. Astronauts! Machine learning! High-altitude danger! Graphs! (It could only get slightly better with the addition of tap-dancing centaurs.) Read on to have your nerdliest pleasure…
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In recent years, virtual reality technology has begun proving its worth outside the world of gaming, with applications in education, health care, military training and beyond. Now researchers at the Mark and Mary Stevens Neuroimaging and…
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The image recognition technology that underlies today’s autonomous cars and aerial drones depends on artificial intelligence: the computers essentially teach themselves to recognize objects like a dog, a pedestrian crossing the street or a…
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An algorithm-based system that identifies telltale linguistic cues in fake news stories could provide news aggregator and social media sites like Google News with a new weapon in the fight against misinformation. The University of Michigan…
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A recent study led by Anna-Lisa Vollmer from the Bielefeld University in Germany suggests that children are prone to prioritising the answers given by robots over their own, even in cases where the robot companion is obviously wrong.…
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In Penn’s Scalable Autonomous Robots Lab, three researchers watch from a cluster of computer monitors as small black boats navigate through water in a large indoor pool, seemingly battling against artificially produced currents. But the…
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A team of researchers working in the fields of engineering and medicine at the University of Central Florida (UCF) has recently developed a new artificial intelligence system capable of spotting often-missed cancerous tumours. “I believe…
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Uber to integrate its self-driving technology alongside Toyota Guardian technology in purpose-built vehicles for deployment on Uber’s ride-sharing network. Toyota to invest $500 million in Uber Image: Toyota.August 28, 2018―TOKYO,…
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Originally created through the Borders Research Project, the technology will now make its way out into the world via Discern Science International Inc. Jay Nunamaker developed the AVATAR system with graduate students to make border…
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Rice University researchers, in a collaboration with Baylor College of Medicine and Houston nonprofit Technology For All (TFA), are developing a fleet of autonomous aerial drones that coordinate with each other to detect, track and model…
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More than 1.5 million women each year are affected by breast cancer – it is one of the leading causes of cancer deaths for women with more than half a million women dying every year from this disease. It can be treated successfully, but…
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Running a big factory isn‘t easy. It is not supposed to be easy either – you have to monitor all your equipment, making sure it is safe and as efficient as it can be. Some machinery can be quite difficult to inspect. For example,…
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A team of researchers at the University of Minnesota have, for the first time, fully 3D printed an array of light receptors on a hemispherical surface. This discovery marks a significant step toward creating a “bionic eye” that could…
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I suffer from “terminal boredom syndrome”; I always need a challenging hobby to keep me sane. In 2012, the Raspberry Pi was launched just as my previous hobby had come to an end. After six months of playing (including a Raspberry Pi…
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In this competition, MAFAT DDR&D (Israel Directorate of Defense Research & Development) would like to tackle the challenge of automatically exploiting fine-grained information from aerial imagery data. Image credit: MAFATAs the…
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Picking up a pen off a desk and writing with it might seem easy to you, but it’s no small feat to a robot. For one thing, once you pick up the pen, you then have to shift it in your hand to get it in the writing position. “You move the pen…
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The “Robat” is a fully autonomous terrestrial robot with bat-like qualities that uses echolocation to move through novel environments while mapping them based only on sound. It was developed at Tel Aviv University. Bats use echolocation to…
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Artificial intelligence is invading many fields, most recently astronomy and the search for intelligent life in the universe, or SETI. Researchers at Breakthrough Listen, a SETI project led by the University of California, Berkeley, have…
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