Robotics
In 2018, Google DeepMind's AlphaZero program taught itself the games of chess, shogi, and Go using machine learning and a special algorithm to determine the best moves to win a game within a defined grid. Now, a team of Caltech ...
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Engineering
In golf, a great caddie helps tune a professional golfer's performance, matching their skill, choice of club and type of swing to the course and weather conditions.
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Consumer & Gadgets
A new coding tool will help make it easier for children to portably program a popular educational micro-computer on the fly. Researchers from Lancaster University's School of Computing and Communications working in partnership ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Kris Gaines is on a nonproliferation mission: to make it easier for more countries to eliminate highly enriched uranium, or HEU, thus neutralizing the inherent threat of its potential for nefarious use. As a nuclear nonproliferation ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Robotics
A team of researchers has beaten its own record for the fastest swimming soft robot, drawing inspiration from manta rays to improve their ability to control the robot's movement in the water.
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Software
Researchers at CAMERA, the University of Bath's Centre for Analysis of Motion, Entertainment and Research Applications, have developed open access software that analyzes motion capture data, without using markers. They have ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
World energy demand is continuing to soar as cities grow, technology advances and industries develop. Buildings make up about 30%-40% of the total—even more than industry or transport. This comes largely from heating, cooling ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Engineering
By studying how light reflects from the surface of metals, engineers can now tell if manufactured parts meet quality control standards. This time- and cost-effective technology opens new avenues for quality control of safety-critical ...
Dec 4, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Creating realistic 3D models for applications like virtual reality, filmmaking, and engineering design can be a cumbersome process requiring lots of manual trial and error.
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Engineering
Dr. Tim Kelly calls it "the magic of science"—when what you think is going to happen doesn't, but what you learn in the process promises to inform advances in a new type of solar cell. Solar cells, which convert sunlight ...
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