Robotics, AI and SmartTech News – Latest Headlines

Microrobot device removes brain hemorrhages due to strokes or aneurysms

A new treatment for strokes caused by bleeding in the brain that uses a magnetically controlled microrobot-enabled self-clearing catheter has been shown to be 86% effective in animal models.

June 17, 2022 Read more

Origami millirobots bring health care closer to precision drug delivery

Mechanical engineers create multifunctional wireless robots to maximize health outcomes and minimize invasiveness of procedures.

June 15, 2022 Read more

Shape-shifting drone flies and dives to seek aquatic environmental clues (w/video)

A new 'dual robot' drone can both fly through air and land on water to collect samples and monitor water quality.

June 14, 2022 Read more

Participants wanted for study on the regulation of what future AI-driven nanomedicines should look like

The research is part of the SWARM study - Small robots With collective behaviour as AI-driven cancer therapies; building Regulations for future nanoMedicines.

June 14, 2022 Read more

Engineers build LEGO-like artificial intelligence chip

The new design is stackable and reconfigurable, for swapping out and building on existing sensors and neural network processors.

June 13, 2022 Read more

Scientists craft living human skin for robots (w/video)

In not-at-all-creepy news, scientists have made living human skin for robots, and they say it's a bit 'sweaty'.

June 9, 2022 Read more

When will I be able to upload my brain to a computer?

We often imagine that human consciousness is as simple as input and output of electrical signals within a network of processing units - therefore comparable to a computer. Reality, however, is much more complicated. For starters, we don't actually know how much information the human brain can hold.

June 9, 2022 Read more

Engineers create chip that can process and classify nearly two billion images per second

To create their chip, researchers removed the four main time-consuming culprits in the traditional computer chip: the conversion of optical to electrical signals, the need for converting the input data to binary format, a large memory module, and clock-based computations.

June 4, 2022 Read more

Nanostructured fibers can impersonate human muscles

Researchers have created a new type of fiber that can perform like a muscle actuator, in many ways better than other options that exist today. And, most importantly, these muscle-like fibers are simple to make and recycle.

June 3, 2022 Read more

Researchers study society's readiness for AI ethical decision making

A research team has studied how humans react to the introduction of AI decision making. Specifically, they explored the question, 'is society ready for AI ethical decision making?' by studying human interaction with autonomous cars.

June 3, 2022 Read more

Artificial intelligence centered cancer nanomedicine: Diagnostics, therapeutics and bioethics

The book 'Artificial Intelligence Based Cancer Nanomedicine: Diagnostics, Therapeutics and Bioethics' gives a comprehensive explanation of the role of machine learning and artificial intelligence in cancer nanomedicine. It presents 10 chapters that cover multiple dimensions of the subject.

June 2, 2022 Read more

Creating artificial intelligence that acts more human by 'knowing that it knows'

A research group has taken a big step towards creating a neural network with metamemory through a computer-based evolution experiment.

June 2, 2022 Read more

When AI is the inventor - who gets the patent?

It's not surprising these days to see new inventions that either incorporate or have benefitted from artificial intelligence (AI) in some way, but what about inventions dreamt up by AI - do we award a patent to a machine?

May 31, 2022 Read more

Taking the strain out of parking in busy cities with AI technology

Scientists are developing artificial intelligence that steers drivers towards parking spaces in busy city centres and helps keep pollution down.

May 30, 2022 Read more

Agriculture smart tech opens possibility of food cyber attacks

Wide-ranging use of smart technologies is raising global agricultural production but international researchers warn this digital-age phenomenon could reap a crop of another kind - cybersecurity attacks.

May 27, 2022 Read more

A helping hand for robotic manipulator design (w/video)

With modular components and an easy-to-use 3D interface, this interactive design pipeline enables anyone to create their own customized robotic hand.

May 26, 2022 Read more

Tiny robotic crab is smallest-ever remote-controlled walking robot (w/video)

Smaller than a flea, robot can walk, bend, twist, turn and jump.

May 26, 2022 Read more

Researchers develop algorithm to divvy up tasks for human-robot teams

As robots increasingly join people on the factory floor, in warehouses and elsewhere on the job, dividing up who will do which tasks grows in complexity and importance. People are better suited for some tasks, robots for others. And in some cases, it is advantageous to spend time teaching a robot to do a task now and reap the benefits later.

May 24, 2022 Read more