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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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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Hi Tech & Innovation
Be grateful you're not on a dragonfly's diet. You might be a fruit fly or maybe a mosquito, but it really wouldn't matter the moment you look back and see four powerful wings pounding through the air after you. You fly for ...
Jul 24, 2019
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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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Hi Tech & Innovation
(Tech Xplore)—French scientists have worked on a speech synthesizer designed for people who have vocal cord paralysis. They have put nine sensors to work capturing lip movements, tongue, jaw, soft palate.
Machine learning & AI
As Charles Darwin wrote in at the end of his seminal 1859 book On the Origin of the Species, "whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful ...
Jun 18, 2019
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Engineering
For all the improvements in computer technology over the years, we still struggle to recreate the low-energy, elegant processing of the human brain. Now, researchers at Stanford University and Sandia National Laboratories ...
Feb 21, 2017
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Engineering
Landing multi-rotor drones smoothly is difficult. Complex turbulence is created by the airflow from each rotor bouncing off the ground as the ground grows ever closer during a descent. This turbulence is not well understood ...
May 24, 2019
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Computer Sciences
As research into photonic computing progresses, scientists seek to optimize the performance of optical computing devices by making purpose-specific changes to their design. A team led by Bo Wu and Shaojie Liu at Huazhong ...
Sep 20, 2023
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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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