Robotics
Robots are rapidly making their way into a variety of settings, including industrial and manufacturing facilities. So far, they have shown great potential for speeding up and automating a number of manufacturing processes ...
Machine learning & AI
How do you know you are looking at a dog? What are the odds you are right? If you're a machine-learning algorithm, you sift through thousands of images—and millions of probabilities—to arrive at the "true" answer, but ...
Mar 12, 2024
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Software
The development and testing of algorithms for robotics applications typically requires evaluations in both simulated and physical environments. Some algorithms, however, can be difficult to deploy in simple hardware experiments, ...
Robotics
In recent years, computer scientists have developed increasingly advanced algorithms for controlling the movements of robotic agents. These include model predictive control (MPC) techniques, which use a model of the agent's ...
Computer Sciences
It's a dilemma as old as time. Friday night has rolled around, and you're trying to pick a restaurant for dinner. (Assuming there's still reservations since you waited until the last minute to book). Anyways, should you go ...
Nov 10, 2022
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Robotics
Researchers at the SRM Institute of Science and Technology in India have recently developed a decentralized trajectory generation algorithm for multi-agent systems. Their algorithm, presented in a paper pre-published on arXiv, ...
Engineering
If you are interested in hearing out novel concepts about the future of construction, a must-see video is "Walking Assembly." Dependencies on the sizes of materials vis a vis the human body do not seem to apply any longer.
Computer Sciences
A team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions across China has modified Shor's algorithm in a way that could allow less powerful quantum computers to crack current cryptosystems. The team describes their modifications ...
Engineering
The image recognition technology that underlies today's autonomous cars and aerial drones depends on artificial intelligence: the computers essentially teach themselves to recognize objects like a dog, a pedestrian crossing ...
Aug 17, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Iowa State University's Alexander Stoytchev says it's one of the "most popular and useful" algorithms around—even though most of us have never heard of it.
Mar 25, 2020
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