Engineers at the University of Waterloo have discovered a new way to program robots to help people with dementia locate medicine, glasses, phones and other objects they need but have lost.
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As AI becomes increasingly realistic, our trust in those with whom we communicate may be compromised. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have examined how advanced AI systems impact our trust in the individuals we interact with.
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Oregon State University leading $5M effort to accelerate robotics research
Researchers at Oregon State University are part of a $5 million National Science Foundation effort to accelerate robotics research by making standardized humanoid robots available to the scientific community.
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Scientists from the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Sydney, in collaboration with researchers from Boston University, have developed a machine-learning tool that shows promise in predicting the onset of Parkinson’s disease before the appearance of symptoms. This breakthrough, described in a recent publication in the journal ACS Central Science, involves the analysis of biomarkers in patients’ bodily fluids using neural networks.
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A team of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians at the Georgia Institute of Technology are using the movement of centipedes to develop a new theory of multilegged locomotion. They created many-legged robotic models, discovering the robot with redundant legs could move across uneven surfaces without any additional sensing or control technology as the theory predicted.
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Medical Robotics Market will reach US$ 72.22 Billion in 2030, according to a report ResearchAndMarkets.com. The medical robotics market has been growing steadily in recent years and is expected to continue in the coming years. As a result, Medical Robotics Market was valued at US$ 11.66 Billion in 2022.
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Exposure to an augmented reality (AR) or virtual reality (VR) environment can cause people to experience cybersickness — a special type of motion sickness with symptoms ranging from dizziness to nausea — and existing research to mitigate the severity of the symptoms often relies upon a one-size-fits-all approach. However, Khaza Anuarul Hoque, an assistant professor in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of Missouri, and a team of researchers are working to develop a personalized approach to identifying cybersickness by focusing on the root causes, which can be different for every person.
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Neural networks on photonic chips: harnessing light for ultra-fast and low-power artificial intelligence
Neural networks are distributed computing structures inspired by the structure of a biological brain and aim to achieve cognitive performance comparable to that of humans but in a much shorter time. These technologies now form the basis of machine learning and artificial intelligence systems that can perceive the environment and adapt their own behaviour by analysing the effects of previous actions and working autonomously.
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Columbia Engineers design a robot hand that is the first device of its kind to join advanced sense of touch with motor-learning algorithms–it doesn’t rely on vision to manipulate objects.
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Boston Dynamics’ robot Spot has been integrated with ChatGPT by a team at ML.School. This integration allows the robots to perform automated missions while interpreting and responding to voice-enabled queries in real-time.