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AI Carpenter Can Recreate Furniture From Photos
An algorithm developed by University of Washington researchers can render photos of wooden objects into three-dimensional models with enough detail to be replicated...
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Why Self-Driving Cars Could be Going the Way of the Jetpack
Some observers say the dream of fully autonomous vehicles is a mirage: creating robot vehicles able to tackle any kind of road or traffic situation is just too...
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Dubai Police Will Use Citywide Network of Drones to Respond to Crime
Dubai is creating a network of pre-positioned drone bases so police can respond to incidents with drones anywhere in the city within a minute.
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Meteorite-Hunting Drones Could Help Find Freshly Fallen Space Rocks
A team of scientists used drones and machine learning to try to find just-landed meteorites.
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Quantum Data Link Established Between 2 Distant Chinese Cities
Researchers created a secure quantum link extending 511 kilometers (almost 320 miles) between two Chinese cities.
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DeepMind AI Taught Digital People to Play Football from Scratch
An artificial intelligence-trained computer learned to play football from scratch, using digital players.
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Chemical Code Used to Store Jane Austen Quote in Plastic Molecules
University of Texas at Austin researchers encoded a quote from Jane Austen's novel Mansfield Park in software-readable plastic molecules.
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Robot Taught Table Etiquette Can Explain Why It Won't Follow the Rules
Researchers programmed a humanoid robot with software that models human cognitive processes.
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AI Shows 2 Scribes Wrote One of the Dead Sea Scrolls
One of the Dead Sea Scrolls was written by two scribes with very similar handwriting, according to researchers at the Netherlands' University of Groningen.
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Vibrations From a Smartphone Can Help Spot Unsafe Drinking Water
Vibrations from a smartphone's ringtone can be used to measure a liquid's viscosity, according to researchers at China's Shenzhen University.
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AI Helps Assess Pain Levels in People With Sickle Cell Disease
Northwestern University researchers used artificial intelligence to assess pain levels in patients with sickle cell disease, based on their vital signs.
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Fire Safety App Simulates Wildfires, Shows Route to Avoid Them
Researchers have built a mobile wildfire simulation application that provides personalized evacuation routes to anyone in the path of a fire.
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Eagle-Inspired Robot Flies by Flapping Its Feather-Covered Wings
Researchers in China were inspired by a golden eagle to build a robotic bird with flapping wings covered in actual feathers.
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Submersible Soft Robot Survives Pressure of Mariana Trench
A silicone rubber submersible robot engineered by researchers at China's Zhejiang University successfully withstood the immense pressures in the Mariana trench....
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Google Uses Underwater Fiber-Optic Cable to Detect Earthquakes
A submarine fiber-optic cable owned by Google was used by researchers to detect earthquakes and ocean waves generated by storms.
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Sharing Your Route in Advance Could Cut Electric Car Charging Queue
Researchers have developed a computer model that could reduce wait times for charging electric cars by using information about each vehicle’s planned journey.
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Robot Can Understand What a Hug Is
A prototype soft robot developed by researchers at Cornell University is imbued with sensory perception.
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Voice Assistant Recordings Could Reveal What Someone Nearby Is Typing
A machine learning system can be used with voice assistants to detect typing on touchscreens nearby, using artificial intelligence (AI) tools to determine what...
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AI Can Turn Spoken Language Into Photorealistic Sign Language Videos
Researchers at the U.K.'s University of Surrey employed a neural network to render spoken language as sign language.
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