Robotics
A review paper by scientists at the Beijing Institute of Technology summarized recent efforts and future potential in the use of in vitro biological neural networks (BNNs) for the realization of biological intelligence, with ...
Mar 9, 2023
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Engineering
With mathematical modeling, a research team has now succeeded in better understanding how the optimal working state of the human brain, called criticality, is achieved. Their results mean an important step toward biologically-inspired ...
Nov 4, 2022
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Machine learning & AI
By combining machine learning with the laws of physics, researchers in the lab of Matthew Lew, associate professor of electrical and systems engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, have been able to sort out the ...
Nov 2, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Molecular computing is a promising area of study aimed at using biological molecules to create programmable devices. This idea was first introduced in the mid-1990s and has since been realized by several computer scientists ...
Jul 25, 2022 feature
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Automotive
If a sticker on a banana can make it show up as a toaster, how might strategic vandalism warp how an autonomous vehicle perceives a stop sign? Now, an immune-inspired defense system for neural networks can ward off such attacks, ...
Mar 24, 2022
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Computer Sciences
Machine learning techniques are designed to mathematically emulate the functions and structure of neurons and neural networks in the brain. However, biological neurons are very complex, which makes artificially replicating ...
Jan 14, 2021 feature
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Machine learning & AI
Many computational properties are maximized when the dynamics of a network are at a 'critical point," a state where systems can quickly change their overall characteristics in fundamental ways, transitioning e.g. between ...
Jul 22, 2020
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Machine learning & AI
EPFL researchers have invented a way of automatically working out what data needs to be put into a complex system—such as a fiber optic network—in order to get the desired result. Their solution could prove especially ...
Jul 16, 2020
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Robotics
Picking up a can of soft drink may be a simple task for humans, but this is a complex task for robots—it has to locate the object, deduce its shape, determine the right amount of strength to use, and grasp the object without ...
Jul 15, 2020
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Computer Sciences
No one can say whether androids will dream of electric sheep, but they will almost certainly need periods of rest that offer benefits similar to those that sleep provides to living brains, according to new research from Los ...
Jun 8, 2020
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