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Snake-inspired robot uses kirigami to move

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

Now, a team of researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) has developed a soft robot that uses those same pr...

Robo-picker grasps and packs

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

Now engineers from MIT and Princeton University have developed a robotic system that may one day lend a hand with this household chore, as well as assist in oth...

Berkeley Lab 'minimalist machine learning' algorithms analyze images from very little data

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

Daniel Pelt and James Sethian of Berkeley Lab's Center for Advanced Mathematics for Energy Research Applications (CAMERA) turned the usual machine learning pers...

Robotic crystals that walk n' roll

Feb 28, 2018 (SPX)

They have developed robotic crystals that walk slowly like an inchworm and roll 20,000 times faster than its walking speed. These autonomously moving, organic c...

Brothers look to harness artificial intelligence for greater good

Feb 26, 2018 (AFP)

Romesh and Sunil Wadhwani this week launched what is billed as the world's first nonprofit institute dedicated to putting AI to work improving lives of poor far...

Google Assistant adds more languages in global push

Feb 23, 2018 (AFP)

Google Assistant, the artificial intelligence software which is available on its connected speakers, Android smartphones and other devices, will also include mu...

New stretchable electronic skin sensitive enough to feel ladybug footsteps

Feb 21, 2018 (UPI)

As described in a newly published Nature paper, researchers have developed stretchable electronic skin sensitive enough to feel the footsteps of an artificial l...

Artificial intelligence poses questions for nature of war: Mattis

Feb 18, 2018 (AFP)

A question on the subject prompted the retired Marine general to give an impromptu seminar on his theory of war Saturday to reporters returning with him from a ...

All-terrain microbot moves by tumbling over complex topography

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

"The uTUM is capable of traversing complex terrains in both dry and wet environments," said David Cappelleri, an associate professor in Purdue University's Scho...

Researchers help robots think and plan in the abstract

Feb 15, 2018 (SPX)

Planning is a monumentally difficult thing for robots, largely because of how they perceive and interact with the world. A robot's perception of the world consi...

Can a cockroach teach a robot how to scurry across rugged terrain?

Feb 14, 2018 (SPX)

In a crowded, windowless lab, scholars and students are coaxing the insects to share some crucial locomotion tips that could help future robotic vehicles traver...

Army researchers develop new algorithms to train robots

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

ARL and UT researchers considered a specific case where a human provides real-time feedback in the form of critique. First introduced by collaborator Dr. Peter ...

Quantum algorithm could help AI think faster

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

The team's proposed 'quantum linear system algorithm' is published in the 2 February issue of Physical Review Letters. In the future, it could help crunch numbe...

Integration of AI and robotics with materials sciences will lead to new clean energy technology

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

Artificial intelligence and robotics combined with material sciences and other advanced methods could dramatically speed up development of new materials for all...

The robots will see you now

Feb 08, 2018 (SPX)

Porfiri and a team of collaborators tapped advances in real-time tracking software and robotics to design and test the first closed-loop control system featurin...

NIST's superconducting synapse may be missing piece for 'artificial brains'

Feb 05, 2018 (SPX)

The NIST switch, described in Science Advances, is called a synapse, like its biological counterpart, and it supplies a missing piece for so-called neuromorphic...

Applying machine learning to the universe's mysteries

Feb 01, 2018 (SPX)

The researchers programmed powerful arrays known as neural networks to serve as a sort of hivelike digital brain in analyzing and interpreting the images of the...

Bezos hails Alexa as Amazon profits surge

Feb 01, 2018 (AFP)

Net profit more than doubled to $1.9 billion, compared with $749 million a year earlier, for the US online giant which has expanded from retail to video to clou...

Artificial intelligence sparks hope -- and fear, US poll shows

Jan 31, 2018 (AFP)

The Gallup survey showed 79 percent of Americans say artificial intelligence has had a "mostly positive" or "very positive" impact on their lives thus far. At t...

'Job-killing' robots, AI under scrutiny in Davos

Jan 26, 2018 (AFP)

It's a depressingly blunt statement for anyone to make, but even more so as it is the prediction of Jack Ma, CEO of the Chinese online sales giant Alibaba. The ...