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October 14, 2024

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New Breakthrough Helps Free Up Space for Robots to 'Think', Say Scientists

Oct. 8, 2024 — Engineers have worked out how to give robots complex instructions without electricity, which could free up more space in the robotic 'brain' for them to 'think'. Mimicking how some parts of the human body work, researchers have transmitted a series ...

Simulation Mimics How the Brain Grows Neurons, Paving the Way for Future Disease Treatments

Oct. 10, 2024 — A new computer simulation of how our brains develop and grow neurons has been built. Along with improving our understanding of how the brain works, researchers hope that the models will contribute to ...

Ultra-Sensitive Robotic 'Finger' Can Take Patient Pulses, Check for Lumps

Oct. 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed a soft robotic 'finger' with a sophisticated sense of touch that can perform routine doctor office examinations, including taking a patient's pulse and checking for abnormal ...

Stronger Together: Miniature Robots in Convoy for Endoscopic Surgery

Oct. 1, 2024 — Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery through the body. Scientists are now combining several millimeter-sized TrainBots into one unit and equipping them with improved ...

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New AI Models of Plasma Heating Lead to Important Corrections in Computer Code Used for Fusion Research

Oct. 9, 2024 — New artificial intelligence models for plasma heating can do more than was previously thought possible, not only increasing the prediction speed 10 ...

A Gentle and Versatile Robotic Gripper for Efficient Crop Harvesting

Sep. 26, 2024 — Conventional robotic grippers struggle to adapt to complex shapes and sizes, such as those found in crops. This has created a demand for more adaptable robotic grippers that can be utilized in ...

Feet First: AI Reveals How Infants Connect With Their World

Oct. 1, 2024 — Researchers explored how infants act purposefully by attaching a colorful mobile to their foot and tracking movements with a Vicon 3D motion capture system. The study tested AI's ability to detect ...

Helping Robots Zero in on the Objects That Matter

Sep. 30, 2024 — Engineers developed a system that helps robots quickly map a scene and identify items they need to complete a set of ...

How Can We Make the Best Possible Use of Large Language Models for a Smarter and More Inclusive Society?

Sep. 20, 2024 — Large language models (LLMs) have developed rapidly in recent years and are becoming an integral part of our everyday lives through applications like ...

Hexagonal Electrohydraulic Modules Shape-Shift Into Versatile Robots

Sep. 18, 2024 — Scientists at MPI-IS have developed electrically driven robotic components, called HEXEL modules, which can snap together into high-speed reconfigurable robots. Magnets embedded along the outside of ...

Like Humans, Artificial Minds Can 'Learn by Thinking'

Sep. 18, 2024 — A new review shows that this process of thinking is not exclusive to humans. Artificial intelligence, too, is capable of self-correction and arriving at new conclusions through 'learning by ...

Artificial Intelligence Grunt Work Can Be Outsourced Using a New Blockchain-Based Framework

Sep. 18, 2024 — Researchers have developed a new framework to make complex AI tasks more accessible and transparent to users. The framework specializes in providing ...

Researchers Discover Building Blocks That Could 'Revolutionize Computing'

Sep. 12, 2024 — A research team has made a major discovery by designing molecules that could revolutionize ...

Researchers Combine the Power of AI and the Connectome to Predict Brain Cell Activity

Sep. 11, 2024 — With maps of the connections between neurons and artificial intelligence methods, researchers can now do what they never thought possible: predict ...

Microscale Robot Folds Into 3D Shapes and Crawls

Sep. 11, 2024 — Researchers have created microscale robots less than 1 millimeter in size that are printed as a 2D hexagonal 'metasheet' but, with a jolt of electricity, morph into preprogrammed 3D shapes ...

New AI Can ID Brain Patterns Related to Specific Behavior

Sep. 9, 2024 — Scientists have developed a new AI algorithm that can separate brain patterns related to a particular behavior. This work promises to improve brain-computer interfaces and aid with the discovery of ...

With AI, Extreme Microbe Reveals How Life's Building Blocks Adapt to High Pressure

Sep. 9, 2024 — An assist from a Google Artificial Intelligence tool has helped scientists discover how the proteins of a heat-loving microbe respond to the crushing conditions of the planet's deepest ocean ...

AI Can Slash Indoor Farming Energy Use

Sep. 9, 2024 — Integrating artificial intelligence into today's environmental control systems could reduce energy consumption for indoor agriculture by 25% -- potentially helping to feed the world as its ...

Artificial Muscles Propel a Robotic Leg to Walk and Jump

Sep. 9, 2024 — Researchers have developed a robotic leg with artificial muscles. Inspired by living creatures, it jumps across different terrains in an agile and energy-efficient ...

People Facing Life-or-Death Choice Put Too Much Trust in AI, Study Finds

Sep. 4, 2024 — In simulated life-or-death decisions, about two-thirds of people in a study allowed a robot to change their minds when it disagreed with them -- an alarming display of excessive trust in artificial ...

A New Role for Intelligent Tutors Powered by AI in Brain Surgery?

Sep. 4, 2024 — Researchers are designing real-time, intelligent tutors powered by AI. These systems mimic human surgical instructors in brain surgical training. Intelligent tutors help the learner acquire excellent ...

Fungus-Controlled Robots Tap Into the Unique Power of Nature

Sep. 4, 2024 — In creating a pair of new robots, researchers cultivated an unlikely component, one found on the forest floor: fungal mycelia. By harnessing mycelia's innate electrical signals, the researchers ...

Robotic Arm Can Be Used to Perform Remote Echocardiograms, Study Shows

Aug. 28, 2024 — New research shows that echocardiograms performed remotely using robot arm technology have similar accuracy to those performed in person by cardiologists, providing new options for patients with poor ...

Artificial Intelligence Improves Lung Cancer Diagnosis

Aug. 23, 2024 — A team of researchers has created a digital pathology platform based on artificial intelligence. The platform uses new algorithms developed by the team and enables fully automated analysis of tissue ...

Researchers Use AI Tools to Uncover Connections Between Radiotherapy for Lung Cancer and Heart Complications

Aug. 20, 2024 — Researchers have used artificial intelligence tools to accelerate the understanding of the risk of specific cardiac arrhythmias when various parts of the heart are exposed to different thresholds of ...

Engineers Design Tiny Batteries for Powering Cell-Sized Robots

Aug. 16, 2024 — A zinc-air microbattery could enable the deployment of cell-sized, autonomous robots for drug delivery within in the human body, as well as other applications such as locating leaks in gas ...

Robot Planning Tool Accounts for Human Carelessness

Aug. 15, 2024 — A new algorithm may make robots safer by making them more aware of human inattentiveness. In computerized simulations of packaging and assembly lines where humans and robots work together, the ...

How Air-Powered Computers Can Prevent Blood Clots

Aug. 14, 2024 — A new, air-powered computer sets off alarms when certain medical devices fail. The invention is a more reliable and lower-cost way to help prevent blood clots and strokes -- all without electronic ...

Delivery Robots' Green Credentials Make Them More Attractive to Consumers

Aug. 13, 2024 — The smaller carbon footprint, or wheel print, of automatic delivery robots can encourage consumers to use them when ordering food, according to a new study. The suitcase-sized, self-driving electric ...

New Method for Orchestrating Successful Collaboration Among Robots

Aug. 12, 2024 — New research shows that programming robots to create their own teams and voluntarily wait for their teammates results in faster task completion, with the potential to improve manufacturing, ...

Engineers Make Tunable, Shape-Changing Metamaterial Inspired by Vintage Toys

Aug. 12, 2024 — Common push puppet toys in the shapes of animals and popular figures can move or collapse with the push of a button at the bottom of the toys' base. Now, a team of engineers has created a new ...

Artificial Compound Eye to Revolutionize Robotic Vision at Lower Cost but Higher Sensitivity

Aug. 8, 2024 — A research team has recently developed a novel artificial compound eye system that is not only more cost-effective, but demonstrates a sensitivity at least twice that of existing market products in ...

Using Photos or Videos, These AI Systems Can Conjure Simulations That Train Robots to Function in Physical Spaces

Aug. 7, 2024 — Two new studies introduce AI systems that use either video or photos to create simulations that can train robots to function in the real world. This could significantly lower the costs of training ...

Demographics of North African Human Populations Unravelled Using Genomic Data and Artificial Intelligence

Aug. 2, 2024 — A new study places the origin of the Imazighen in the Epipaleolithic, more than twenty thousand years ago. The research concludes that the genetic origin of the current Arab population of north ...