{"id":152234,"date":"2022-12-08T17:22:34","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-smallest-robotic-arm-you-can-imagine-is-controlled-by-artificial-intelligence"},"modified":"2022-12-08T17:22:34","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T23:22:34","slug":"the-smallest-robotic-arm-you-can-imagine-is-controlled-by-artificial-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/12\/the-smallest-robotic-arm-you-can-imagine-is-controlled-by-artificial-intelligence","title":{"rendered":"The smallest robotic arm you can imagine is controlled by artificial intelligence"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Researchers used deep reinforcement learning to steer atoms into a lattice shape, with a view to building new materials or nanodevices.<\/p>\n

In a very cold vacuum chamber, single atoms of silver form a star-like lattice<\/a>. The precise formation is not accidental, and it wasn\u2019t constructed directly by human hands<\/a> either. Researchers used a kind of artificial intelligence called deep reinforcement<\/a> learning to steer the atoms, each a fraction of a nanometer in size, into the lattice shape. The process is similar to moving marbles around a Chinese checkers board, but with very tiny tweezers grabbing and dragging each atom into place.<\/p>\n

The main application for deep reinforcement learning<\/a> is in robotics, says postdoctoral researcher I-Ju Chen. \u201cWe\u2019re also building robotic arms with deep learning, but for moving atoms,\u201d she explains. \u201cReinforcement learning is successful in things like playing chess or video games, but we\u2019ve applied it to solve technical problems<\/a> at the nanoscale.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Researchers used deep reinforcement learning to steer atoms into a lattice shape, with a view to building new materials or nanodevices. In a very cold vacuum chamber, single atoms of silver form a star-like lattice. The precise formation is not accidental, and it wasn\u2019t constructed directly by human hands either. Researchers used a kind of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,48,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-152234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-particle-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}