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Using AI to build better human-machine teams

Mar 25, 2019 (SPX)

Current AI agents are able to respond to commands and follow through on instructions that are within their training, but are unable to understand intentions, ex...

Dynamic hydrogel used to make 'soft robot' components and LEGO-like building blocks

Mar 25, 2019 (SPX)

The components, which are patterned by a 3D printer, are capable of bending, twisting or sticking together in response to treatment with certain chemicals. For ...

Robots help bees and fish communicate

Mar 21, 2019 (UPI)

Scientists developed robots to translate and deliver signals from groups of bees and schools of fish. The robots traded signals across an international border, ...

Seeing through a robot's eyes helps those with profound motor impairments

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

The system, described March 15 in the journal PLOS ONE, could help make sophisticated robots more useful to people who do not have experience operating complex ...

Robot made of many simple particles has no centralized control or single failure point

Mar 21, 2019 (SPX)

Current robots are usually self-contained entities made of interdependent subcomponents, each with a specific function. If one part fails, the robot stops worki...

Movie technology inspires wearable liquid unit that aims to harvest energy

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

The Purdue team, led by Wenzhuo Wu, the Ravi and Eleanor Talwar Rising Star Assistant Professor of Industrial Engineering, has created wearable technology to co...

Faster robots demoralize co-workers

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

The study, "Monetary-Incentive Competition Between Humans and Robots: Experimental Results," brought together behavioral economists and roboticists to explore, ...

Progress on lifelong learning machines shows potential for bio-inspired algorithms

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

Adding new information to cover programming deficits overwrites the existing training set. With current technology, this requires taking the system offline and ...

China is overtaking US in artificial intelligence: researchers

Mar 13, 2019 (AFP)

The analysis by the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence showed China has already surpassed the US in published papers on AI -- although many of these we...

A robotic leg, born without prior knowledge, learns to walk

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

It's an astonishing evolutionary feat that has long inspired biologists and roboticists - and now a team of USC researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Enginee...

How intelligent is artificial intelligence?

Mar 13, 2019 (SPX)

The issue: so far it often remains unknown to users, how exactly AI systems reach their conclusions. Therefore it may often remain unclear, whether the AI's dec...

Will artificial intelligence be the future of music?

Mar 12, 2019 (AFP)

Already, an album featuring eight tracks has been produced entirely with artificial intelligence, an unprecedented feat. "I Am AI" was released last fall by You...

Business with human and robotic exploration

Mar 12, 2019 (ESA)

Research in low Earth orbit has already contributed to the economy in health and material sciences. For example, technology developed for the Space Station is u...

New cell-sized micro robots might make incredible journeys

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

"When I was a kid, I remember looking in a microscope, and seeing all this crazy stuff going on. Now we're building stuff that's active at that size. We don't j...

Mathematics of sea slug movement points to future robots

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

The complex folds of a frilly surface like coral reefs or kale leaves is a surface mathematicians refer to as an "inflected nonsmooth surface." It changes the d...

Ultra-low power chips help make small robots more capable

Mar 11, 2019 (SPX)

To conserve power, the chips use a hybrid digital-analog time-domain processor in which the pulse-width of signals encodes information. The neural network IC ac...

Robo-journalism gains traction in shifting media landscape

Mar 10, 2019 (AFP)

These kinds of artificial intelligence programs -- available for nearly a decade -- are becoming more widespread as news organizations turn to them to produce s...

Mini cheetah is the first four-legged robot to do a backflip

Mar 05, 2019 (SPX)

Weighing in at just 20 pounds - lighter than some Thanksgiving turkeys - the limber quadruped is no pushover: When kicked to the ground, the robot can quickly r...

Assembly in the air: Using sound to defy gravity

Mar 05, 2019 (SPX)

The research team, from the University of Bath and the University of Chicago, were interested in how materials cluster together when they're not on a hard flat ...

Spider silk could be used as robotic muscle

Mar 04, 2019 (SPX)

The resilient fibers, the team discovered, respond very strongly to changes in humidity. Above a certain level of relative humidity in the air, they suddenly co...