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A Helping Hand for Working Robots
A human-like mechanical hand developed by researchers at South Korea's Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology is designed to be both strong and resilient...
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More Efficient LiDAR Sensing for Self-Driving Cars
A new machine learning system for driverless cars uses an end-to-end mapless driving framework that taps raw Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data for autonomous...
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AI, Drones Will Help Pin Down Sosnovsky's Hogweed
To monitor the spread of Sosnovsky's hogweed, scientists developed an artificial intelligence monitoring system that performs real-time image segmentation onboard...
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Ancient Australian 'Superhighways' Suggested by Massive Supercomputing Study
A multi-institutional team of researchers used supercomputers to plot the most likely migration routes of ancient humans across Australia.
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A Successful Phonon Calculation Within the Quantum Monte Carlo Framework
An international team of scientists has enhanced quantum Monte Carlo computation speeds based on error reduction.
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Neural Network Has Learned to Identify Tree Species
Scientists at Russia's Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology (Skoltech) have developed an algorithm that can identify tree species in satellite images.
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Scientists Achieve 'Transformational' Breakthrough in Scaling Quantum Computers
The Gooseberry cryogenic computer chip can operate at ‘millikelvin’ temperatures approaching absolute zero.
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Robotic Swarm Swims Like a School of Fish
Fish-inspired robots can synchronize their movements like an actual school of fish, without outside control.
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Bringing Power Tool From Math Into Quantum Computing
Scientists at Japan's Tokyo University of Science designed a novel quantum circuit that calculates the fast Fourier transform faster and more efficiently than previously...
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Quantum Machines Learn 'Quantum Data'
Scientists at Russia's Skolkovo Institute of Science and Technology have demonstrated that quantum-enhanced machine learning can be applied to quantum data, surmounting...
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Transparent, Reflective Objects Now Within Grasp of Robots
Roboticists at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) have developed a technique that uses a color camera to enable robots to pick up transparent and reflective objects...
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Next-Generation Cockroach-Inspired Robot Is Small, but Mighty
The researchers say the new robot is one of the smallest and most dexterous robots created to date.
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Self-Driving Cars That Recognize Free Space Can Better Detect Objects
Researchers have developed a method to improve self-driving vehicles's ability to detect objects by enabling them to recognize empty space.
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Supercomputer Model Simulations Reveal Cause of Neanderthal Extinction
Supercomputer models determined that competition between Neanderthals and Homo sapiens was likely responsible for the former's extinction in Eurasia.
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Artificial Intelligence is Evolving All by Itself
Artificial intelligence (AI) is evolving—literally.
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AI Finds 2D Materials in the Blink of an Eye
A new artificial intelligence system can quickly find and label two-dimensional materials in microscope images.
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The Tentacle Bot
Researchers have engineered an octopus-inspired soft robotic arm that grasps, moves, and manipulates objects of all shapes, sizes, and textures.
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Engineers Built a Stable Quantum Silicon Chip From Artificial Atoms
Researchers have found a way to make artificial atoms on a silicon chip more stable by drawing in additional electrons to the atoms' outer shell, which could produce...
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Brazil Takes a Page From China, Taps Facial Recognition to Solve Crime
Brazil is following China's example and adopting facial-recognition technology to crack down on crime.
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