How do you turn “dumb” headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be plugged into smartphones, identify their users, monitor their heart rates and perform other services.
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An international collaboration led by Philip Walther, a team of experimental physicists from the University of Vienna, together with theoreticians from the University of Innsbruck, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Leiden University, and the German Aerospace Center, have been successful in experimentally proving for the first time a speed-up in the actual robot’s learning time.
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AI system for monitoring of heart rhythm uses smart speakers
Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home. For example, researchers at the University of Washington have shown that these devices can detect cardiac arrests or monitor babies breathing. But what about tracking something even smaller: the minute motion of individual heartbeats in a person sitting in front of a smart speaker?
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Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractive. The device demonstrated this knowledge by its ability to create new portraits on its own that were tailored to be found personally attractive to individuals. The results can be utilised, for example, in modelling preferences and decision-making as well as potentially identifying unconscious attitudes.
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Dutch agricultural robot wins European prize
Dutch agricultural robot AgXeed won first prize at the European event Pitch your Robot, which took place last week. The aim of the agROBOfood event was to allow SMEs to present solutions for the agri-food sector to investors so that they can obtain funding to continue their work. Wageningen University & Research was coordinator of this European program.
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A computer network closely modelled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images – and explains some perplexing optical illusions.
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Research: What might sheep and driverless cars have in common?
Psychologists have long found that people behave differently than when they learn of peers’ actions. A new study by computer scientists found that when individuals in an experiment about autonomous vehicles were informed that their peers were more likely to sacrifice their own safety to program their vehicle to hit a wall rather than hit pedestrians who were at risk, the percentage of individuals willing to sacrifice their own safety increased by approximately two-thirds.
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Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future. Who knows, maybe a medical robot can prescribe your medicine someday? That’s the idea behind 3D structural-sensing robots being developed and tested at Simon Fraser University by Woo Soo Kim, associate professor in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.
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UCL partners with Facebook AI Research to deliver PhD programme
UCL has announced a four-year research partnership with Facebook AI Research (FAIR), in which PhD students spend time at both UCL Computer Science and Facebook This new strategic partnership between UCL and FAIR is the launch of Facebook’s PhD programme in the UK.
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Scientists use machine-learning approach to track disease-carrying mosquitoes
Using genetic and environmental data, research team maps landscape connectivity in mosquitoes that are known vectors for dengue, chikungunya and Zika
