Hi Tech & Innovation
Researchers have criticized billionaire Elon Musk for promising that his brain implant technology could eventually provide patients with vision superior to normal human sight.
Jul 30, 2024
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Robotics
Over 100 years ago, Alexander Graham Bell asked the readers of National Geographic to do something bold and fresh—"to found a new science." He pointed out that sciences based on the measurements of sound and light already ...
May 30, 2024
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Robotics
Soft skin coverings and touch sensors have emerged as a promising feature for robots that are both safer and more intuitive for human interaction, but they are expensive and difficult to make. A recent study demonstrates ...
Apr 17, 2024
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Computer Sciences
The intensity image is consistent with human vision, but sometimes, the target cannot be completely distinguished from the background. Polarization images can distinguish the target more effectively and highlight the contour ...
Mar 11, 2024
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Robotics
Our built environment is aging and failing faster than we can maintain it. Recent building collapses and structural failures of roads and bridges are indicators of a problem that's likely to get worse, according to experts, ...
Jan 30, 2024
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Computer Sciences
When combating complex problems like illegal poaching and human trafficking, efficient yet broad geospatial search tools can provide critical assistance in finding and stopping the activity. A visual active search (VAS) framework ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Machine learning & AI
She's an important figure behind today's artificial intelligence boom, but not all computer scientists thought Fei-Fei Li was on the right track when she came up with the idea for a giant visual database called ImageNet that ...
Dec 25, 2023
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Robotics
To safely share spaces with humans, robots should ideally be able to detect their presence and determine where they are located, so that they can avoid accidents and collisions. So far, most robots were trained to localize ...
Computer Sciences
From cameras to self-driving cars, many of today's technologies depend on artificial intelligence to extract meaning from visual information. Today's AI technology has artificial neural networks at its core, and most of the ...
Jul 6, 2023
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Machine learning & AI
Why is it that artificial intelligence systems can outperform humans on some visual tasks, like facial recognition, but make egregious errors on others—such as classifying an image of an astronaut as a shovel?
Jun 28, 2023
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