Engineering

Engineering safer machine learning

Children first learning to walk may go a bit too fast and fall down, or run into a piece of furniture. However, that cause-and-effect element teaches them invaluable information about how their bodies move through space so ...

Robotics

Should robots be given a conscience?

Modern-day society relies intrinsically on automated systems and artificial intelligence. It is embedded into our daily routines and shows no signs of slowing, in fact use of robotic and automated assistance is ever-increasing.

Machine learning & AI

Why we trust calculators more than AI

Artificial intelligence may seem similar to a calculator but the relationship of humans with the former is not as serene as with the latter. We trust the results of computers, even if we don't know exactly how it can arrive ...

Computer Sciences

Scientists design artificial synapses for neuromorphic computing

The human brain has been called the most complicated object in the universe. Trying to replicate that still-unmatched capability for computing, scientists at Los Alamos National Laboratory have made a new interface-type memristive ...

Engineering

Optimizing production processes through modularization

Improved speed, precision and flexibility—it is important to take advantage of every possible opportunity in optimizing production. To this end, researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Material and Beam Technology IWS ...

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