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Robots Conduct Daily Health Inspections of Schoolchildren in China
More than 2,000 preschools in China are using a robot to check the health status of students each day before they enter the classroom.
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NASA Tests Managing Drones in Cities
The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration has initiated the last stage of a four-year project to develop a national drone traffic management system...
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Ford's Way to Finish Driverless Deliveries: Package-Carrying Robots
Researchers at Ford are working to incorporate into the company’s driverless delivery system an android capable of carrying a 40-pound load.
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Molecular Landscaping
Researchers are pursuing promising drug candidates via supercomputing to differentiate candidate molecules' protein-binding ability.
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GM Gives All Its Vehicles a New Soul
A new electronic platform from General Motors is envisioned as the linchpin of the automaker's future, enabling the function of almost all its cars' digital systems...
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Protecting Privacy from Wireless Spycams
Computer science techniques combat intrusive cameras.
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States Turn to Drones to Predict Avalanches, Spot Wildlife
Public transportation agencies in nearly every state are using drones, according to a recent American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials...
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How sable Is VR?
Patrick Harms at the University of Gottingen in Germany has designed an automated process for evaluating the usability of virtual reality.
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.S. Postal Service Testing Self-Driving Trucks
The U.S. Postal Service is conducting a pilot study in which self-driving trucks will complete a more-than-1,000-mile mail run between Phoenix and Dallas.
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Neural Net Worth
Yoshua Bengio, Geoffrey Hinton, and Yann LeCun this month will receive the 2018 ACM A.M. Turing Award for conceptual and engineering breakthroughs that have made...
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Intel Flaw Lets Hackers Siphon Secrets From Millions of PCs
Intel and a coalition of security researchers have identified a new vulnerability in Intel's chips which could permit the theft of sensitive data from central processing...
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Your Robot Assistant Will Soon Be Able to Read Your Emotions
In South Korea, which turned on its 5G telecom networks nationwide in April, businesses and organizations are counting on 5G to enable the delivery of new technologies...
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Driverless Electric Truck Starts Deliveries on Swedish Public Road
A driverless electric truck has started delivering freight daily along a public road in Sweden.
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Waymo and Lyft Partner to Scale Self-Driving Robotaxi Service in Phoenix
Technology developer Waymo and ride-hailing company Lyft have partnered to deploy driverless vehicles for Lyft's robotaxi service in Phoenix, AZ.
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Welcome the Plants That Move on their Own
Exploring the potential of plant-robot hybrids that can produce architectural artifacts and living spaces.
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Scientists in China Develop ltra-Long Range AI Camera
Researchers in China have developed camera technology that can render human sized-subjects from up to 28 miles away.
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Hummingbird Robot Flies, Hovers Like Real Thing
Purdue University researchers have built robot hummingbirds that learn to fly and hover like their real-world counterparts, using algorithms and computer simulation...
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New Secret-spilling Flaw Affects Almost Every Intel Chip Since 2011
Almost every computer with an Intel chips dating back to 2011 are affected by the vulnerabilities.
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CM Researcher Designs Suitcase, App to Help the Blind at Airports
An international team of researchers has developed a combined suitcase/smartphone app to help the blind navigate airports with greater independence.
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