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Flexible electronic skin aids human-machine interactions
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
Now researchers report a new method in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces that creates an ultrathin, stretchable electronic skin, which could be used for a va...
Artificial joint restores wrist-like movements to forearm amputees
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
For patients missing a hand, one of the biggest challenges to regaining a high level of function is the inability to rotate one's wrist, or to 'pronate' and 'su...
Insight into swimming fish could lead to robotics advances
Dec 04, 2018 (SPX)
The finding, published in the journal Current Biology, enhances our understanding of active sensing behaviors performed by all animals including humans, such as...
Embark on a NASA technology scavenger hunt with Optimus Prime
Nov 29, 2018 (SPX)
OPSPARC challenges young innovators to find creative uses for NASA technologies and to invent their own spinoff. Just like OPTIMUS PRIME, the leader of the AUTO...
Smarter AI: Machine learning without negative data
Nov 27, 2018 (SPX)
Classifying things is critical for our daily lives. For example, we have to detect spam mail, fake political news, as well as more mundane things such as object...
DARPA, BAE to develop AI for interpreting radio-frequency signals
Nov 27, 2018 (UPI)
DARPA is awarding BAE $9.2 million for machine learning algorithm development, the company announced on Tuesday, which will build off of adaptive technology tha...
GMV leads an ambitious campaign of space robotics trials
Nov 26, 2018 (SPX)
The main aim of the space robotics SRC is to create, within the timeframe of 2020-2030, the necessary tools for consolidating the technical maturity of robotics...
Electronic glove gives robots a sense of touch
Nov 23, 2018 (SPX)
In a paper published Nov. 21 in Science Robotics, chemical engineer Zhenan Bao and her team demonstrated that the sensors work well enough to allow a robotic ha...
CODE demonstrates autonomy and collaboration with minimal human commands
Nov 20, 2018 (SPX)
The UASs efficiently shared information, cooperatively planned and allocated mission objectives, made coordinated tactical decisions, and collaboratively reacte...
US mulls curbs on artificial intelligence exports
Nov 20, 2018 (AFP)
The proposal to control sales of certain technologies "essential to the national security of the United States" comes amid growing trade friction with Beijing -...
How to make AI less biased
Nov 19, 2018 (SPX)
A new approach out of MIT demonstrates that the main culprit is not just the algorithms themselves, but how the data itself is collected. "Computer scientists a...
Researchers in Japan make android child's face strikingly more expressive
Nov 16, 2018 (SPX)
While robots have featured in advances in healthcare, industrial, and other settings in Japan, capturing humanistic expression in a robotic face remains an elus...
Nepal's first robot waiter is ready for orders
Nov 15, 2018 (AFP)
The poor Himalayan nation is better known for its soaring mountain peaks than technological prowess, but a group of self-taught young innovators are seeking to ...
'Autonomous Warrior': UK Army Conducts its Largest Test of Battlefield Robots
Nov 13, 2018 (Sputnik)
The British Army has started an unprecedentedly large testing of battlefield robots, according to the Daily Mail. The event, dubbed the 'Autonomous Warrior 2018...
Chinese state media debuts 'AI' news anchors
Nov 09, 2018 (AFP)
Calling it a "world first", Xinhua news agency this week debuted a pair of virtual news anchors amid a state-directed embrace of advanced technologies such as a...
Artificial sensor mimics human sense of touch
Nov 08, 2018 (SPX)
"Mimicking the human senses is one of the most popular areas of engineering, but the sense of touch is notoriously difficult to replicate," says Kwonsik Shin, e...
Fire ant colonies could inspire molecular machines, swarming robots
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
In a new study, a team led by CU Boulder's Franck Vernerey set out to understand the engineering principles that underlie self-assembled structures of fire ants...
Pitt researcher uses video games to unlock new levels of AI
Nov 06, 2018 (SPX)
"It is exciting to see the tremendous successes and progress made in recent years," says Daniel Jiang, assistant professor of industrial engineering at the Univ...
Shape-shifting robots perceive surroundings, make decisions for first time
Nov 01, 2018 (SPX)
But modular robots - composed of several interchangeable parts, or modules - are far more flexible. If one part breaks, it can be removed and replaced. Componen...
NASA researchers teach machines to see
Oct 31, 2018 (SPX)
Researchers at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, think scientists and engineers could benefit from the same technology, often referred ...
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