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Urdu[Background] A point set registration problem is a task using two shapes, each consisting of a set of points, to estimate the relationship of individual points between the two shapes. Here, a “shape” is like a human body or face,…
Tag: ROBOTRY/ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
A new model of vision
When we open our eyes, we immediately see our surroundings in great detail. How the brain is able to form these richly detailed representations of the world so quickly is one of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the study of…
Fighting hand tremors: First comes AI, then robots
Researchers from NYU Tandon and Canada develop a machine learning model that allows robots to safely treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological movement disorders
A new model of vision
When we open our eyes, we immediately see our surroundings in great detail. How the brain is able to form these richly detailed representations of the world so quickly is one of the biggest unsolved puzzles in the study of…
Fighting hand tremors: First comes AI, then robots
Researchers from NYU Tandon and Canada develop a machine learning model that allows robots to safely treat symptoms of Parkinson’s disease and other neurological movement disorders
Robots on the march to walking like humans
A psychological theory could kickstart improvements in the way robots are able to walk, thanks to a University of Manchester study. The study – a unique collaboration between a clinical psychologist, robotics engineers and a robotics entrepreneur is published in…
Profit-prediction system may lower suicide rates among indebted Indian farmers
Researchers develop first step in platform that could help farmers determine where and when to sell crops
Quantifying objects: bees recognize that six is more than four
Writing in iScience , zoologists have shown that insects have the cognitive abilities to perform so called numerosity estimation, allowing them to solve simple mathematical problems. Zoologist Professor Dr Martin Paul Nawrot and doctoral student Hannes Rapp from the ‘Computational…
Engendering trust in an AI world
SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – Can you imagine a world without personalised Spotify playlists, curated social media feeds, or recommended cat videos on the sidebars of YouTube? These modern-day conveniences, which were made possible by artificial intelligence…
‘Digital disruption’ a game-changer for climate: Future Earth report
Scientists, innovators turn to digital sector for transformative ‘systems change’ on climate; ‘Digital Disruptions for Sustainability (D^2S): A Research, Innovation, and Action Agenda’
Engendering trust in an AI world
SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer – Can you imagine a world without personalised Spotify playlists, curated social media feeds, or recommended cat videos on the sidebars of YouTube? These modern-day conveniences, which were made possible by artificial intelligence…
‘Digital disruption’ a game-changer for climate: Future Earth report
Scientists, innovators turn to digital sector for transformative ‘systems change’ on climate; ‘Digital Disruptions for Sustainability (D^2S): A Research, Innovation, and Action Agenda’
Quantifying objects: bees recognize that six is more than four
Writing in iScience , zoologists have shown that insects have the cognitive abilities to perform so called numerosity estimation, allowing them to solve simple mathematical problems. Zoologist Professor Dr Martin Paul Nawrot and doctoral student Hannes Rapp from the ‘Computational…
Nowzari developing controllers to facilitate emergent behavior in swarms
Cameron Nowzari, Assistant Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering, is working to design and deploy a full-scale robotic swarm system of Lighter Than Air (LTA) agents capable of exhibiting various emergent behaviors without colliding with one another. The experimental focus of…
Socially assistive robot helps children with autism learn
USC researchers developed personalized learning robots for children with autism and studied whether the robots could autonomously gauge the child’s engagement in long-term, in-home therapeutic interventions
The tentacle ‘bot
Octopus-inspired robot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects
Socially assistive robot helps children with autism learn
USC researchers developed personalized learning robots for children with autism and studied whether the robots could autonomously gauge the child’s engagement in long-term, in-home therapeutic interventions
The tentacle ‘bot
Octopus-inspired robot can grip, move, and manipulate a wide range of objects
A tactile robot finger with no blind spots
Columbia Engineers first to demonstrate a robotic finger with a highly precise sense of touch over a complex, multicurved surface
Army awards grants to eight universities to tackle modernization challenges
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The U.S. Army awarded grants to eight academic teams from diverse scientific fields to develop disruptive solutions to some of the most promising challenges important to Army modernization. The teams will study topics including adversarial…
A tactile robot finger with no blind spots
Columbia Engineers first to demonstrate a robotic finger with a highly precise sense of touch over a complex, multicurved surface
Army awards grants to eight universities to tackle modernization challenges
RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. — The U.S. Army awarded grants to eight academic teams from diverse scientific fields to develop disruptive solutions to some of the most promising challenges important to Army modernization. The teams will study topics including adversarial…
Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs
The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research article in the open-access journal Zookeys . Despite having been known since 1929, the explosive jump – which is also the reason behind the…
AI has helped to better understand how human brain performs face recognition
Scientists from Salk Institute (USA), Skoltech (Russia), and Riken Center for Brain Science (Japan) investigated a theoretical model of how populations of neurons in the visual cortex of the brain may recognize and process faces and their different expressions and…
Exceptional catapulting jump mechanism in a tiny beetle could be applied in robotic limbs
The fascinating and highly efficient jumping mechanism in flea beetles is described in a new research article in the open-access journal Zookeys . Despite having been known since 1929, the explosive jump – which is also the reason behind the…
AI has helped to better understand how human brain performs face recognition
Scientists from Salk Institute (USA), Skoltech (Russia), and Riken Center for Brain Science (Japan) investigated a theoretical model of how populations of neurons in the visual cortex of the brain may recognize and process faces and their different expressions and…
Soft robot fingers gently grasp deep-sea jellyfish
Marine biologists have adopted “soft robotic linguine fingers” as tools to conduct their undersea research. In a study appearing February 24 in the journal Current Biology , scientists found that jellyfish held by ultra-soft robotic fingers expressed significantly fewer stress-related…
Researchers adapt cognitive assessment for people with intellectual disability
WHAT: The NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery–an assessment of cognitive functioning for adults and children participating in neuroscience research–can be adapted to people with intellectual disabilities by modifying some test components and making accommodations for the test-takers’ disabilities, according to researchers…
Swarming robots avoid collisions, traffic jams
New algorithm could help control self-driving cars, automated warehouses
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun
Quantum breakthrough uses light’s quirky properties to boost 3D imaging, paving the way for enhanced performance in self-driving cars, medical imaging and deep-space communications
Soft robot fingers gently grasp deep-sea jellyfish
Marine biologists have adopted “soft robotic linguine fingers” as tools to conduct their undersea research. In a study appearing February 24 in the journal Current Biology , scientists found that jellyfish held by ultra-soft robotic fingers expressed significantly fewer stress-related…
Researchers adapt cognitive assessment for people with intellectual disability
WHAT: The NIH Toolbox Cognitive Battery–an assessment of cognitive functioning for adults and children participating in neuroscience research–can be adapted to people with intellectual disabilities by modifying some test components and making accommodations for the test-takers’ disabilities, according to researchers…
Swarming robots avoid collisions, traffic jams
New algorithm could help control self-driving cars, automated warehouses
Want to catch a photon? Start by silencing the sun
Quantum breakthrough uses light’s quirky properties to boost 3D imaging, paving the way for enhanced performance in self-driving cars, medical imaging and deep-space communications
Google Award for next generation Deep Learning education
TensorFlow Award to University of Technology Sydney
Artificial intelligence yields new antibiotic
A deep-learning model identifies a powerful new drug that can kill many species of antibiotic-resistant bacteria
‘Flapping wings’ powered by the sun (video)
In ancient Greek mythology, Icarus’ wax wings melted when he dared to fly too close to the sun. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have made artificial wings that are actually powered by the sun. The tiny…
Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik win the BBVA Frontiers Award in ICT
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Information and Communications Technology has gone in this 12th edition to Isabelle Guyon, Bernhard Schölkopf and Vladimir Vapnik, for their “fundamental contributions to machine learning”
Montana State engineering researcher wins NSF CAREER award
BOZEMAN — In the engineer’s world, vibration is usually a bad thing. It means that something is loose, out of balance or unexpectedly catching the wind, that energy is being wasted or a part is being damaged. Engineers usually try…
Montana State engineering researcher wins NSF CAREER award
BOZEMAN — In the engineer’s world, vibration is usually a bad thing. It means that something is loose, out of balance or unexpectedly catching the wind, that energy is being wasted or a part is being damaged. Engineers usually try…
Cyber researchers at Ben-Gurion University fool autonomous vehicle systems with phantom images
BEER-SHEVA, ISRAEL…February 18, 2020 – Researchers from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev’s (BGU) Cyber Security Research Center have found that they can cause the autopilot on an autonomous vehicle to erroneously apply its brakes in response to “phantom” images projected…
How language proficiency correlates with cognitive skills
An international team of researchers carried out an experiment at HSE University demonstrating that knowledge of several languages can improve the performance of the human brain. In their study, they registered a correlation between participants’ cognitive control and their proficiency…
Regenstrief website hosts online course on the future of AI in health care
INDIANAPOLIS — Artificial intelligence offers exciting opportunities to improve care, but there are many considerations as the field moves forward. Stakeholders can now take an online course on Regenstrief Institute’s website that gives insight into the current and future state…
Getting a grip: An innovative mechanical controller design for robot-assisted surgery
Scientists at Tokyo Institute of Technology designed a new type of controller for the robotic arm used in robotic surgery. Their controller combines the two distinct types of gripping used in commercially available robotic systems to leverage the advantages of…
Army researchers develop efficient distributed deep learning
ADELPHI, Md. (Feb. 18, 2020) — A new algorithm is enabling deep learning that is more collaborative and communication-efficient than traditional methods. Army researchers developed algorithms that facilitate distributed, decentralized and collaborative learning capabilities among devices, avoiding the need to…
Slithering snakes on a 2D plane
Snakes help Hopkins engineers design search and rescue robots
New artificial neural network model bests MaxEnt in inverse problem example
New artificial neural network model may serve as a basis for solving inverse problems
Factories reimagined
Will factory work become a top job option for young people?
AI helps predict heart attacks and stroke
Artificial intelligence has been used for the first time to instantly and accurately measure blood flow, in a study led by UCL and Barts Health NHS Trust. The results were found to be able to predict chances of death, heart…
UCF researchers develop device that mimics brain cells used for human vision
The invention may help to make robots one day that can think like humans