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Aug 9, 2022
World’s first living robots can now reproduce
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: robotics/AI
Aug 9, 2022
Baidu to operate fully driverless commercial robotaxi in Wuhan and Chongqing
Posted by Gemechu Taye in categories: internet, robotics/AI
Chinese internet giant Baidu has secured permits to offer a fully driverless commercial robotaxi service, with no human driver present, in Chongqing and Wuhan via the company’s autonomous ride-hailing unit, Apollo Go. Baidu’s wins in Wuhan and Chongqing come a few months after the compa…
Aug 9, 2022
Untangling life’s molecular mysteries using AI is a welcome advance
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: biological, robotics/AI
Artificial intelligence has turned its power on deciphering the complex structures of proteins, the substances behind many vital processes in cells. It is a great boost for biology and, ultimately, wider society.
Aug 9, 2022
Soap molecule could help make alternative LED tech commercially viable
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: robotics/AI, solar power, sustainability
Adding a molecule normally used in detergent to an infrared LED could make devices that are easier to manufacture, require less energy and display richer colours than existing ones.
Solar cells and LEDs made from perovskite, a titanium and calcium crystal, have long held promise as being more efficient and easier to produce than commonly used silicon-based devices, but making them both stable and efficient enough to rival silicon’s commercial success has proved difficult.
What gives humans the advantage over our incoming robot masters? Junaid Mubeen at New Scientist Live this October.
Aug 9, 2022
Artificial finger able to identify surface material with 90% accuracy
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: materials, robotics/AI
A team of researchers at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, has developed an artificial finger that was able to identify certain surface materials with 90% accuracy. In their paper published in the journal Science Advances, the group describes how they used triboelectric sensors to give their test finger an ability to gain a sense of touch.
Prior research has led to the development of robotic fingers that have the ability to recognize certain attributes of certain surfaces, such as pressure or temperature—the team with this new effort, have taken such efforts further by adding the ability to identify a material that is being touched.
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Aug 9, 2022
New adaptive artificial muscles made of a single-helical woolen yarn
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: biological, cyborgs, robotics/AI
In recent years, material scientists have designed a wide range of innovative materials that could be used to create new technologies, including soft robots, controllers and smart textiles. These materials include artificial muscles, structures that resemble biological muscles in shape and that could improve the movements of robots or enable the creation of clothing that adapts to different environmental conditions.
As part of an ongoing project focused on textile-based soft actuators, a team of researchers at Jiangnan University in China recently developed new artificial muscles based on free-standing, single-helical woolen yarn. Their artificial muscles, introduced in a paper published in Smart Materials and Structures, could be used to easily and affordably produce twisted actuators that can detect and respond to humidity in their environment.
“We are trying to design flexible and versatile actuators by leveraging the hierarchical structure design of textiles, ranging from microscales (e.g., molecular chains and aggregation structures) to macroscales (e.g., fiber morphology and textile architectures),” Fengxin Sun, one of the researchers who carried out the study, told Tech Xplore. “Realizing a yarn-based artificial muscle with free-standing and single-helical architecture via eco-friendly and easy-fabrication manufacturing process is still challenging.”
Aug 8, 2022
ROBOMOJO: Robomojo — Pop Culture reimagined by Artificial Intelligence
Posted by Jose Ruben Rodriguez Fuentes in category: robotics/AI
Pop Culture reimagined by Artificial Intelligence. A digital dream machine. A cultural feedback loop. All imagery generated by A.I.
Aug 8, 2022
Automated techniques could make it easier to develop AI
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Machine-learning researchers make many decisions when designing new models. They decide how many layers to include in neural networks and what weights to give inputs at each node. The result of all this human decision-making is that complex models end up being “designed by intuition” rather than systematically, says Frank Hutter, head of the machine-learning lab at the University of Freiburg in Germany.
A growing field called automated machine learning, or autoML, aims to eliminate the guesswork. The idea is to have algorithms take over the decisions that researchers currently have to make when designing models. Ultimately, these techniques could make machine learning more accessible.
Aug 8, 2022
Baidu bags China’s first fully driverless robotaxi licenses
Posted by Omuterema Akhahenda in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
China search engine giant Baidu Inc said on Monday it has obtained permits to operate fully driverless robotaxi services on open roads from two Chinese cities, the first of their kind in the country.
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