Robotics
A fully autonomous bat-like terrestrial robot, named Robat, can use echolocation to move through a novel environment while mapping it solely based on sound, according to a study published in PLOS Computational Biology by ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Internet
Google, from Day One, got big by getting into the business of finding information. Years later, Google is talking serious business about datasets. Google is launching a new search engine to help scientists find the datasets ...
Robotics
Showing prejudice towards others does not require a high level of cognitive ability and could easily be exhibited by artificially intelligent machines, new research has suggested.
Sep 6, 2018
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Energy & Green Tech
In major legislation passed at the end of August, California committed to creating a 100 percent carbon-free electricity grid—once again leading other nations, states, and cities in setting aggressive policies for slashing ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Robotics
A cockroach no bigger than a large paper clip scurries across the floor of Abhishek Dutta's lab at the University of Connecticut.
Sep 6, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Software applications provide people with many kinds of automated decisions, such as identifying what an individual's credit risk is, informing a recruiter of which job candidate to hire, or determining whether someone is ...
Sep 6, 2018
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Computer Sciences
A large group of researchers at Imperial College London, the University of Edinburgh, the University of Manchester, and Stanford University have recently collaborated on a project exploring the application of real-time localization ...
Engineering
Hmm. Drones that can be recharged by a laser. So how long could they fly before having to land? How about "never mind"? We can look forward to seeing this idea in action. New Scientist had a story on September 3 that the ...
