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Computer-Aided Creativity in Robot Design

Nov. 30, 2020 — RoboGrammar is a new system that automates and optimizes robot design. The system creates arthropod-inspired robots for traversing a variety of terrains. It could spawn more inventive robot forms ...

AI Helps Scientists Understand Brain Activity Behind Thoughts

Nov. 24, 2020 — Researchers have developed artificial intelligence (AI) models that help them better understand the brain computations that underlie ...

Biophysics: Geometry Supersedes Simulations

Nov. 20, 2020 — Physicists have introduced a new method that allows biological pattern-forming systems to be systematically characterized with the aid of mathematical analysis. The trick lies in the use of geometry ...

Showing Robots How to Drive a Car...in Just a Few Easy Lessons

Nov. 19, 2020 — Researchers have designed a system that lets robots autonomously learn complicated tasks from a very small number of demonstrations -- even imperfect ones. While current state-of-art methods need at ...

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New Machine Learning Tool Tracks Urban Traffic Congestion

Dec. 2, 2020 — Using public data from the entire 1,500-square-mile Los Angeles metropolitan area, researchers reduced the time needed to create a traffic congestion model by an order of magnitude, from hours to ...

Optimizing Complex Modeling Processes Through Machine Learning Technologies

Nov. 23, 2020 — Engineering a spaceship is as difficult as it sounds. Modeling plays a large role in the time and effort it takes to create spaceships and other complex engineering systems. It requires extensive ...

Misinformation or Artifact: A New Way to Think About Machine Learning

Nov. 23, 2020 — Machine learning has delivered amazing results, but there also have been failures, ranging from the harmless to potentially deadly. New work suggests that common assumptions about the cause behind ...

A Neural Network Learns When It Should Not Be Trusted

Nov. 19, 2020 — Researchers have developed a way for deep learning neural networks to rapidly estimate confidence levels in their output. The advance could enhance safety and efficiency in AI-assisted decision ...

Parental Restrictions on Tech Use Have Little Lasting Effect Into Adulthood

Nov. 18, 2020 — A new study of more than 1,200 individuals found that time spent with digital technology during adolescence has little impact on long-term use, suggesting that worries about widespread tech addiction ...

Could Your Vacuum Be Listening to You?

Nov. 17, 2020 — A team of researchers demonstrated that popular robotic household vacuum cleaners can be remotely hacked to act as ...

New Electronic Chip Delivers Smarter, Light-Powered AI

Nov. 18, 2020 — New tech combines the core software needed to drive AI with image-capturing hardware - in one electronic chip. The light-driven prototype device imitates the way the human brain processes visual ...

Computer Scientists Launch Counteroffensive Against Video Game Cheaters

Nov. 16, 2020 — Computer scientists have devised a new weapon against video game players who cheat. The researchers developed their approach for detecting cheaters using the popular first-person shooter game ...

Quantum Algorithm Breakthrough

Nov. 16, 2020 — Physicists report the development of a quantum algorithm with the potential to study a class of many-electron quantums system using quantum ...

System Brings Deep Learning to 'Internet of Things' Devices

Nov. 13, 2020 — A new system brings machine learning to microcontrollers. The advance could enhance the function and security of devices connected to the Internet of Things ...