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Is Deep Learning a necessary ingredient for Artificial Intelligence?
Deep learning appears to be a key magical ingredient for the realization of many artificial intelligence tasks. However, these tasks can be efficiently realized by the use of simpler shallow architectures.
April 20, 2023 Read more
Eco-computing
Development of neural networks or AI tools for data analysis is increasing exponentially. However, networks existing in natural ecosystems, such as webs of interspecies relationships, have information processing potential that has largely remained untapped.
April 19, 2023 Read more
The first 3D-printed biodegradable seed robot, able to change shape in response to humidity (w/video)
In the pursuit of innovative solutions that harmoniously blend with the natural world, researchers have developed the first 3D-printed seed-robot, known as I-Seed.
April 19, 2023 Read more
Deep learning drives insights into protein-protein interactions
Scientists used AlphaFold 2 to develop a powerful deep learning approach for predicting and modeling multi-protein interactions. The approach, AF2Complex, generates much more accurate structural models than previous methods for modeling a protein complex.
April 18, 2023 Read more
Meet the autonomous lab of the future
Robots operate instruments and artificial intelligence makes decisions to find useful new materials at the A-Lab.
April 17, 2023 Read more
Multi-compartment membranes for multicellular robots: Everybody needs some body
We typically think of robots as metal objects, filled with motors and circuits. But the field of molecular robotics is starting to change that.
April 14, 2023 Read more
Scientists create high-efficiency sustainable solar cells for IoT devices with AI-powered energy management
Researchers have created environmentally-friendly, high-efficiency photovoltaic cells that harness ambient light to power internet of Things (IoT) devices.
April 13, 2023 Read more
4 ways that AI can help students
As artificial intelligence systems play a bigger role in everyday life, they're changing the world of education, too.
April 12, 2023 Read more
Towards zero-defect manufacturing
As consumers, we have all from time to time experienced buying faulty items, whether they be smart phones, washing machines or cars. Researchers now believe that this is a thing of the past.
April 12, 2023 Read more
New 'AI scientist' combines theory and data to discover scientific equations
The system demonstrated its chops on Kepler's third law of planetary motion, Einstein's relativistic time-dilation law, and Langmuir's equation of gas adsorption.
April 12, 2023 Read more
Bioprinting technology combined with artificial intelligence allows to obtain high quality in vitro models
In the process of organoid manufacturing, bioprinting technology can not only facilitate the creation and maintenance of complex biological 3D shapes and structures, but also allow for standardization and quality control during production.
April 11, 2023 Read more
Researchers use artificial intelligence to hunt for human intelligence
In recent years researchers have turned to artificial intelligence to make sense of brain activity as measured by fMRI, turning AI models on the data in an effort to understand, with increasing specificity, what people are thinking and what those thoughts look like in their brains.
April 10, 2023 Read more
How to make electronic noses smell better
A comprehensive review of methods and algorithms.
April 8, 2023 Read more
Technology advance paves way to more realistic 3D holograms for virtual reality and more
Researchers have developed a new way to create dynamic ultrahigh-density 3D holographic projections. By packing more details into a 3D image, this type of hologram could enable realistic representations of the world around us for use in virtual reality and other applications.
April 6, 2023 Read more
AI-equipped eyeglasses can read silent speech
Outfitted with a pair of microphones and speakers smaller than pencil erasers, the EchoSpeech glasses become a wearable AI-powered sonar system, sending and receiving soundwaves across the face and sensing mouth movements.
April 6, 2023 Read more
Origami-based integration of robots that sense, decide, and respond
Roboticists have created a new fabrication technique for fully foldable robots that can perform a variety of complex tasks without relying on semiconductors.
April 4, 2023 Read more
New cyber software can verify how much knowledge AI really knows
With a growing interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems worldwide, researchers have created software that is able to verify how much information an AI farmed from an organisation's digital database.
April 4, 2023 Read more
Forgive or forget: What happens when robots lie?
The field of robot deception is understudied, and for now, there are more questions than answers. For one, how might humans learn to trust robotic systems again after they know the system lied to them?
April 3, 2023 Read more