Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 1173
Feb 20, 2022
AI Is Helping Scientists Explain the Brain
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: robotics/AI
Feb 19, 2022
Using machine learning to understand how brain cells work
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: biotech/medical, genetics, robotics/AI
For something so small, neurons can be quite complex—not only because there are billions of them in a brain, but because their function can be influenced by many factors, like their shape and genetic makeup.
A research team led by Daifeng Wang, a Waisman Center professor of biostatistics and medical informatics and computer sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, is adapting machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques to better understand how a variety of traits together affect the way neurons work and behave.
Called manifold learning, the approach may help researchers better understand and even predict brain disorders by looking at specific neuronal properties. The Wang lab recently published its findings in two studies.
Feb 19, 2022
Low-cost self-healing material for robotic hands and arms
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, wearables
Soft sensing technologies have the potential to revolutionize wearable devices, haptic interfaces, and robotic systems. However, most soft sensing technologies aren’t durable and consume high amounts of energy.
Now, researchers at the University of Cambridge have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications. The low-cost jelly-like materials can sense strain, temperature, and humidity. And unlike earlier self-healing robots, they can also partially repair themselves at room temperature.
“Incorporating soft sensors into robotics allows us to get a lot more information from them, like how strain on our muscles allows our brains to get information about the state of our bodies,” said David Hardman from Cambridge’s Department of Engineering the paper’s first author.
Feb 19, 2022
Robot dogs could patrol the US-Mexico border
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, security
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GM3GM299orc
The photos look like a scene out of science fiction: Robot dogs patrolling the US-Mexico border, climbing over harsh terrain to search for threats and contraband.
But these images are real.
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Feb 19, 2022
DeepMind Has Trained an AI to Control Nuclear Fusion
Posted by Brent Ellman in categories: information science, nuclear energy, robotics/AI
The Google-backed AI firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor.
Feb 19, 2022
This AI Can Control the Sun-Hot Plasma in a Nuclear Fusion Reactor
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: biotech/medical, nuclear energy, robotics/AI
But thankfully it did NOT involve 6 malevolent AI robot arms, NOR was it done in the middle of New York City by an oddly literally named Doctor Octavious. ☝️😉
Google’s DeepMind can dynamically adjust the magnetic fields inside a tokamak.
Feb 19, 2022
Self-healing materials for robotics made from ‘jelly’ and salt
Posted by Liliana Alfair in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability
Researchers have developed self-healing, biodegradable, 3D-printed materials that could be used in the development of realistic artificial hands and other soft robotics applications.
The low-cost jelly-like materials, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge, can sense strain, temperature and humidity. And unlike earlier self-healing robots, they can also partially repair themselves at room temperature.
The results are reported in the journal NPG Asia Materials.
Feb 18, 2022
The Promise of AI in Gene and Cell Therapy Operations
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
DPS Group and Aizon discuss how artificial intelligence is enabling adaptive modeling in process development and integrating activities in biomanufacturing.
Feb 18, 2022
6 major breakthroughs Perseverance made during its first year on Mars
Posted by Atanas Atanasov in categories: robotics/AI, space
The Martian rover has done the most!
NASA’s Perseverance rover has been on Mars for a full Earth year. During that time, the little robot has gotten pretty familiar with Mars’ terrain and set off a historic mission to find out if life ever existed on the Red Planet.
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