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Designing Customizable Self-Folding Swarm Robots
Researchers are developing robotic swarms that can be rapidly customized, self-assembled, and self-deployed without human intervention.
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Cartoon Clinicians: Precursors of Virtual Therapy?
Soldiers in one study were more open with a virtual character about post-traumatic stress symptoms than with human doctors.
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Tractor Beam Breakthrough Could Lead to Levitating Humans
Tractor beams have made the jump from science fiction to reality in recent years, but only for levitating very small objects.
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Trash Talk From an AI Could Help Humans Cooperate Better
Researchers have developed an algorithm to help artificial intelligence and humans learn to cooperate.
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Professor Designs Algorithms to Make Robots Better Collaborators
Researchers are developing algorithms that enable groups of robots to make good decisions despite inherent communication delays in information sharing.
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New Research Adds Physiology to Computer Models
Researchers contend that without a physiological complement, a computer program modeling the mind would just be a brain in a vat.
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Computer Codes Make Sweet Music For Self-Playing Piano
Researchers used unique software to create an interactive self-playing piano performance.
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Nus Engineers Invent Tiny Vision Processing Chip For ltra-Small Smart Vision Systems and Iot Applications
EQSCALE is a new microchip that captures visual details from video frames using 20 times less power than existing chips.
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Are Programs Better Than People at Predicting Reoffending?
A Dartmouth College research study found the COMPAS computer program performed about as well as humans at predicting recidivism.
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Brain Mri, AI Predict Deaf Children's Capacity to Learn Language
A new method using two types of computing technology can predict how well a deaf child can learn language after receiving cochlear implant surgery.
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New Carnegie Mellon Dynamic Statistical Model Follows Gene Expressions Over Time
Researchers say they have developed a new dynamic statistical model to visualize changing patterns in networks.
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Kettering University Students Converting Chevy Bolt Into Autonomous Vehicle
Kettering University researchers are participating in the AutoDrive Challenge, in which teams convert a Chevrolet Bolt into a Level 4 autonomous vehicle.
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c Riverside Research Will Help Protect Military Software From Hackers
Researchers at the University of California, Riverside say they are trying to protect important but outdated computers and software still in use by securing legacy...
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Artificial Intelligence Will Be a Human Jobs Creator
In 2013, James "Jimi" Crawford founded a company called Orbital Insight, barely noticed at the time amid the Silicon Valley froth.
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How a 22-Year-Old Discovered the Worst Chip Flaws in History
In 2013, a teenager named Jann Horn attended a reception in Berlin hosted by Chancellor Angela Merkel. He and 64 other young Germans had done well in a government...
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'earworm Melodies With Strange Aspects'--What Happens When AI Makes Music
The FlowMachines project has produced the first entire studio album co-created by artists and artificial intelligence.
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Alibaba and Microsoft AI Beat Humans in Stanford Reading Test
Artificial intelligence programs from China and the U.S. last week outperformed humans in a global reading comprehension test
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No Evidence to Support Link Between Violent Video Games and Behavior
The results of experiments involving more than 3,000 participants demonstrates that increasing the realism of violent video games does not necessarily boost aggression...
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Incorporating Social Media Reviews Can Improve Surveillance of Restaurant Health Problems
The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene has used a system that tracks food-borne illness via online Yelp restaurant reviews to identify instances...
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