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From self-driving cars and IBM's Watson to chess engines and AlphaGo, there is no shortage of news about machine learning, the field of artificial intelligence that studies how to make computers that can learn. Recently, parallel to these advances, scientists have started to ask how quantum devices and techniques might aid machine learning in the future.
Sep 17th, 2016
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Here's how to convince the brain that prosthetic legs are real.
Sep 12th, 2016
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Surgeons have performed the world's first operation inside the eye using a robot. They used the remotely controlled robot to lift a membrane 100th of a millimetre thick from the retina at the back of the right eye.
Sep 12th, 2016
Read moreA nationwide team in the U.S. is setting out to ensure that when computers are running the world, they will make decisions compatible with human values.
Sep 8th, 2016
Read moreWhen you have too many robots together, they get so focused on not colliding with each other that they eventually just stop moving. New algorithms are different: they allow any number of robots to move within inches of each other, without colliding, to complete their task - swapping locations on his lab floor.
Sep 7th, 2016
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What can software designers and ICT specialists learn from maggots? Quite a lot, it would appear. Through understanding how complex learning processes in simple organisms work, scientists hope to usher in an era of self-learning robots and predictive computing.
Sep 2nd, 2016
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A Korean research team developed microrobots with high propulsion efficiency in highly-viscous fluid environments, applying propulsion techniques that mimic the ciliary stroke motion of paramecia.
Sep 1st, 2016
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This year-long exercise in scientific introspection yields a report meant to spur discussion about how the fruits of an AI-dominated economy should be shared.
Sep 1st, 2016
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A lionfish harvester robot would use a robot arm with two metal electrodes on the end to electrocute invasive lionfish.
Aug 30th, 2016
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It is now possible for machines to learn how natural or artificial systems work by simply observing them, without being told what to look for, according to new research.
Aug 30th, 2016
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Powered by a chemical reaction controlled by microfluidics, the 3D-printed 'octobot' has no electronics.
Aug 24th, 2016
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A new European network effort has put robot-assisted neurorehabilitation on the map.
Aug 24th, 2016
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Researchers using the liquid crystal elastomer technology, demonstrated a bioinspired micro-robot capable of mimicking caterpillar gaits in natural scale. The 15-millimeter long soft robot harvests energy from green light and is controlled by spatially modulated laser beam.
Aug 18th, 2016
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By combining robotics with tissue engineering, researchers are starting to build robots powered by living muscle tissue or cells. These devices can be stimulated electrically or with light to make the cells contract to bend their skeletons, causing the robot to swim or crawl.
Aug 10th, 2016
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Some see robots as a hypothetical future replacement for human carers. But a question roboticists are asking is: how human should these future robot companions be?
Aug 9th, 2016
Read moreFlying robots could someday help artists create outdoor murals.
Aug 4th, 2016
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The 3D-printed robot can move forward or backward in a wave-like motion, moving much like a worm would in a perpendicular wave.
Aug 1st, 2016
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New robotic devices mimic creature's surprising unstable advantage.
Jul 22nd, 2016
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