Engineering
The last time you dropped a favorite mug or sat on your glasses, you may have been too preoccupied to take much notice of the intricate pattern of cracks that appeared in the broken object. But capturing the formation of ...
Mar 22, 2024
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Memory, or the ability to store information in a readily accessible way, is an essential operation in computers and human brains. A key difference is that while brain information processing involves performing computations ...
Mar 19, 2024
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Robotics
Auke Ijspeert and his team in the BioRobotics Lab (BioRob) in EPFL's School of Engineering had operated their bio-informed robots in natural environments before, but this was more for demonstration purposes than for scientific ...
Mar 15, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
EPFL researchers have shown that large language models primarily trained on English text seem to use English internally, even when they are prompted in another language. As AI increasingly runs our lives, this may have important ...
Mar 14, 2024
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Robotics
The perception of softness can be taken for granted, but it plays a crucial role in many actions and interactions—from judging the ripeness of an avocado to conducting a medical exam, or holding the hand of a loved one. ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Computer Sciences
Researchers at EPFL have developed a new, uniquely modular machine learning model for flexible decision-making. It is able to input any mode of text, video, image, sound, and time-series and then output any number, or combination, ...
Feb 26, 2024
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Engineering
An international collaboration between EPFL and the University of Glasgow has led to an advanced machine-learning algorithm to effectively detect concealed manufacturing defects in wind turbine composite blades—before turbines ...
Feb 22, 2024
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Computer Sciences
In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming industries from health care to finance, understanding how these digital brains learn is more crucial than ever. Now, two researchers from EPFL, Antonia Sclocchi ...
Feb 21, 2024
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Engineering
Five million rooftops in Switzerland—more than half of the nationwide total—are suitable for generating power. A review of two solar photovoltaic development strategies has shown that combining the two approaches could ...
Feb 20, 2024
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Engineering
An EPFL Master's student in civil engineering has evaluated the effectiveness of new computer-based methods for inspecting potentially dangerous cracks in concrete.
Jan 10, 2024
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