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How to Survive a Robot Apocalypse: Just Close the Door
In a competition, robots were unable to overcome the challenge of an unlocked door impeding their way at an outdoor obstacle course, illustrating the technology's...
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Researchers Study Human Movement to Build Better Robots
Researchers at Northeastern University are studying how people and robots move independently and in tandem.
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Co-Design Center Develops Next-Gen Simulation Tools
The Exascale Computing Project's Center for Efficient Exascale Discretizations collaborates to create highly optimized discretization libraries and next-generation...
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Researcher Seeks to Tame 'ghost' of ncertainty in Complex Dynamic Systems
University of Kansas professor Huazhen Fang is leading research to address "unstructured uncertainty" in the quest to develop accurate predictive mathematical...
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Training For Artificial Intelligence in Warfare
Governments are taking a closer look at artificial intelligence as a way to further their strategic interests in areas such as national defense.
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Machine Learning and Deep Learning Programs Provide a Helping Hand to Scientists Analyzing Images
Researchers are using machine learning and deep learning to better identify how neutrinos interact with normal matter.
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IBM Raises the Bar With 50-Qubit Quantum Computer
IBM last week announced a 50-quantum bit quantum computer, as well as the availability of a 20-qubit system via its cloud computing platform.
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Only If It Serves the State: North Korea's Online Experience
Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
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Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution
Surface features on Ceres—the largest world between Mars and Jupiter—and its interior evolution have a closer relationship than one might think.
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Highly Flexible Organic Flash Memory For Foldable and Disposable Electronics
A new ultra-flexible organic flash memory can be applied to non-conventional substrates, such as plastics and papers.
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Cosmos Code Helps Probe Space Oddities
The Cosmos computer code is driving supercomputer models of black hole jets and is used to investigate other unusual space phenomena.
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Facebook Can Make Your Profile Pic Wink and Scowl
Researchers have been developing a tool that can take a single image of a face and create an animated version that puts on either a happy, sad, or angry expression...
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Tv Show Gives Computers a Lead in Solving Problems
Researchers have taught artificially intelligent machines to study the TV show "CSI" and identify the perpetrator in each episode.
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A Robotic Spy Among the Fish
Researchers have developed a miniature robot that can integrate perfectly into schools of zebrafish.
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Slac Knows How the niverse Works. Now It's Targeting Your Needs
You could be forgiven for thinking the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory's glory days are long over.
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Texas Gunman's Iphone Could Reignite Fbi-Apple Feud Over Encryption
The FBI and Apple are bracing for another potential fight over encryption, this time because of the iPhone of the dead gunman in Sunday's Texas church shooting,...
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Chip-Based Sensors With Incredible Sensitivity
Researchers at Pennsylvania State University have created an optical whispering gallery mode resonator.
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Brown/hasbro Team to Design Smart Robotic Companions to Assist Seniors
Researchers are using a U.S. National Science Foundation grant to enhance Hasbro's Joy for All Companion Pets into smart robots that can help older adults with...
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Researchers Develop Data Bus For Quantum Computer
Researchers at the University of Innsbruck in Austria have developed a technique to transfer quantum information between systems that are encoded in different ways...
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