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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Researchers at Purdue University are advancing the world of robotics and autonomy with their patent-pending method that improves on traditional machine vision and perception.

Zubin Jacob, the Elmore Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering in the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and research scientist Fanglin Bao have developed HADAR, or heat-assisted detection and ranging. Their research was featured on the cover of the July 26 issue of the peer-reviewed journal Nature. A video about HADAR is available on YouTube. Nature also has released a podcast episode that includes an interview with Jacob.

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If your mother says she loves you: check it.

A couple weeks ago, I asked Vergecast.

What I was not expecting was for so many people to send me versions of a video that shows a banana getting stitches in a robotic surgery device, with the captions claiming that the surgery is being done remotely over 5G. This video has had an … More.

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NotebookLM is a neat research tool with some big ideas. It’s still rough and new, but it feels like Google is onto something.

What if you could have a conversation with your notes? That question has consumed a corner of the internet recently.

Google’s version of this is called NotebookLM. It’s an AI-powered research tool that is meant to help you organize and interact with your own notes. (Google originally announced it earlier this year as Project Tailwind but quickly changed the name.) Right now, it’s really just a… More.

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The Da Vinci robot was able to undertake an operation no doctor would.

Robots are increasingly showing up in operating rooms and they are saving lives. As one patient in Canada reports in a CBC

Glenn Deir recounts the story of how his inoperable tumor nearly cost him his life and thanks the robot that saved him.

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Are biometric authentication measures no longer safe? Biometric authentication expert says deepfake videos and camera injection attacks are changing the game.

Biometrics authentication is getting more and more popular due to it being fast, easy, and smooth for the user, but Stuart Wells, CTO at biometrics authentication company Jumio, thinks this may be risky.

AI is the undoubted buzzword of the year, so let’s take a look at what we can expect from AI in healthcare in the coming period.

First, you’ll learn how GPT-4 works and why human language turns out to play such a critical role in computing. Next, you’ll see how AI-native software is be…

A checklist derived from six neuroscience-based theories of consciousness could aid in the assessment.

Summary: Researchers achieved a breakthrough in converting brain signals to audible speech with up to 100% accuracy. The team used brain implants and artificial intelligence to directly map brain activity to speech in patients with epilepsy.

This technology aims to give a voice back to people in a locked-in state, who are paralyzed and cannot speak. The researchers believe that the success of this project marks a significant advance in the realm of Brain-Computer Interfaces.