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A silicone robot has survived a journey to 10900 metres below the ocean’s surface in the Mariana trench, where the crushing pressure can implode all but the strongest enclosures. This device could lead to lighter and more nimble submersible designs.

A team led by Guorui Li at Zhejiang University in China based the robot’s design on snailfish, which have relatively delicate, soft bodies and are among the deepest-living fish. They have been observed swimming at depths of more than 8000 metres.

The submersible robot looks a bit like a manta ray and is 22 centimetres long and 28 centimetres in wingspan. It is made of silicone rubber with electronic components spread throughout the body and connected by wires, rather than mounted on a circuit board like most submersibles. That’s because the team found in tests that the connections between components on rigid circuit boards were a weak point when placed under high pressure.

This is the Hadrian X by FBR, a pioneering and autonomous bricklaying robot that can build a standard 3-bedroom, 2-bathroom house every 2 days on average.

The Facebook research builds upon steady progress in tweaking deep learning algorithms to make them more efficient and effective. Self-supervised learning previously has been used to translate text from one language to another, but it has been more difficult to apply to images than words. LeCun says the research team developed a new way for algorithms to learn to recognize images even when one part of the image has been altered.

Most image recognition algorithms require lots of labeled pictures. This new approach eliminates the need for most of the labeling.

This 3D printing robot is making unique patterned cocktails.

This AI-powered robot can make 300 pizzas in an hour.

The system engaged when a pilot was just 2600 feet above ground level.

Founded by Google veterans and backed by $340 million from major VCs, Skydio is creating drones that seem straight out of science fiction—and they could be flying around your neighborhood soon.

A self-powered robot inspired by a fish can survive the extreme pressures at the bottom of the ocean’s deepest trench, thanks to its soft body and distributed electronic system — and might enable exploration of the uncharted ocean. How robots made from soft materials can withstand high pressures.

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Healthcare AI Research And Development Supporting 9+ Million U.S. Veterans, Their Families, And Caregivers — Dr. Gil Alterovitz, Ph.D., Director, National Artificial Intelligence Institute — U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs.

Dr. Gil Alterovitz, Ph.D. is Director, National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII) at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), where he focuses on…