Robotics
A tailsitter is a fixed-wing aircraft that takes off and lands vertically (it sits on its tail on the landing pad), and then tilts horizontally for forward flight. Faster and more efficient than quadcopter drones, these versatile ...
Aug 23, 2023
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Internet
People's daily interactions with online algorithms affect how they learn from others, with negative consequences including social misperceptions, conflict and the spread of misinformation, my colleagues and I have found.
Aug 22, 2023
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Engineering
In recent years, pneumatic artificial muscles (PAMs) have emerged as promising actuators for simulating human-like movements, with prominent applications in various industries including robotics, rehabilitation, and prosthetics. ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Computer Sciences
How does a gambler maximize winnings from a row of slot machines? This is the inspiration for the "multi-armed bandit problem," a common task in reinforcement learning in which "agents" make choices to earn rewards. Recently, ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
Most electric vehicles are equipped with an electronic brain that manages day-to-day battery performance and safety. This battery management system, or BMS, includes software that uses algorithms to monitor the overall health ...
Aug 21, 2023
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Hi Tech & Innovation
Deep learning algorithms based on artificial neural networks are completely changing information processing methods in many scientific and engineering fields.
Aug 16, 2023
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Computer Sciences
The model of democracy in the 1920s is sometimes called "the melting pot"—the dissolution of different cultures into an American soup. An update for the 2020s might be "open source," where cultural mixing, sharing and collaborating ...
Aug 11, 2023
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Computer Sciences
The term 'Expensive optimization problem' (EOP) refers to any problem that requires expensive or even unaffordable costs to evaluate candidate solutions. These problems exist in many significant real-world applications.
Aug 10, 2023
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Automotive
The natural world works off algorithms, so researchers thought to use one of the world's most industrious animals, the honeybee, as a basis for determining energy-efficient routes in electric trackless rubber-tired vehicles ...
Aug 8, 2023
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Computer Sciences
Seeking to reduce the computing power needed for the widely used dynamic mode decomposition algorithm, a team of researchers in China led by Guo-Ping Guo developed a quantum-classical hybrid algorithm. They tested their algorithm ...
Aug 7, 2023
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