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How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration …
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A Sea Hero Quest to understand our navigation skills
Video games can be a very successful way to do citizen science, getting ordinary people involved in research. Sea Hero Quest is an extremely successful example....
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Robert Weitbrecht and his telecommunication device for the deaf
Robert Weitbrecht was born deaf. He went on to become an award winning electronics scientist who invented the acoustic coupler (or modem) and a teletypewriter (or...
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Super-plant supercapacitors
There are a whole range of plants that have been called superfoods for their amazing claimed health benefits because of the nutrients they contain. But plants can...
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The wrong trousers? Not any more!
Inspired by the Wallace & Gromit film ‘The Wrong Trousers’, Johnathan Rossiter of the University of Bristol builds robotic trousers. We could all need them as we...
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Music-making mates for Mortimer
Robots are cool. Fact. But can they keep you interested for more than a short time? Over months? Years even? Louis McCallum of Queen Mary University of London tells...
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Philippa Gardner bringing law and order to a wild west
Verified Trustworthy Software The computing world is a wild west, with bugs in software the norm, and malicious people and hostile countries making use of themContinue...
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Soft squidgy robots
Think of a robot and you probably think of something hard, metal, solid. Bang into one and it would hurt! But researchers are inventing soft robots, ones that are...
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Aaron and the art of art
Aaron is a successful American painter. Aaron’s delicate and colourful compositions on canvas sell well in the American art market, and have been exhibited worldwide...
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Sue Sentance: Teaching the world to program
How do you learn to program? How do you best teach programming. When the English school curriculum changed, requiring even primary school students to learn programming...
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