Robot uses machine learning to harvest lettuce
A vegetable-picking robot that uses machine learning to identify and harvest a commonplace, but challenging, agricultural crop has been developed by engineers.
Jul 08, 2019
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News tagged with student
Robotics
Dog-like robot jumps, flips and trots
Putting their own twist on robots that amble through complicated landscapes, the Stanford Student Robotics club's Extreme Mobility team has developed a four-legged robot that is not only capable of performing acrobatic tricks ...
May 20, 2019
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Robotics
Researchers develop new flying / driving robot
The first experimental robot drone that flies like a typical quadcopter, drives on tough terrain and squeezes into tight spaces using the same motors, has been developed by Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) researchers.
May 20, 2019
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Computer Sciences
To win online debates, social networks worth a thousand words
Want to win an argument online? Bolstering your social network may be more helpful than rehearsing your rhetorical flourishes.
May 16, 2019
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Energy & Green Tech
Cities can follow Stanford's energy makeover to cut emissions of carbon dioxide affordably, new study finds
Over the past several years, Stanford transformed its energy infrastructure by electrifying its heating system, replacing its gas-fired power plant with grid power, creating a unique system to recover heat, building massive ...
May 08, 2019
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Consumer & Gadgets
Study finds virtual assistants play different roles when users seek health info
Conversing through voice, compared to text, enhances the connection users have with a virtual assistant. This can lead to better attitudes toward the technology, according to a study by Penn State graduate student Eugene ...
May 02, 2019
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Security
Match me if you can: Cryptographic breakthrough helps spies to shake hands
When spies meet, they use secret handshakes to confirm their identities, ensuring they are who they say they are. Now, researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology, and colleagues, have solved a 15-year-old problem that ...
Apr 30, 2019
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Internet
Bots exploiting blockchains for profit
Blockchains have been hailed as fair and open, constructed so a single user can't falsify or alter records because they're all part of a transparent network.
Apr 30, 2019
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Hardware
Advance boosts efficiency of flash storage in data centers
MIT researchers have designed a novel flash-storage system that could cut in half the energy and physical space required for one of the most expensive components of data centers: data storage.
Apr 03, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Humans compress images better than algorithms, experiment finds
Your friend texts you a photo of the dog she's about to adopt but all you see is a tan, vaguely animal-shaped haze of pixels. To get you a bigger picture, she sends the link to the dog's adoption profile because she's worried ...
Mar 25, 2019
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Robotics
New low-profile ankle exoskeleton fits under clothes for potential broad adoption
A new lightweight, low-profile and inexpensive ankle exoskeleton could be widely used among elderly people, those with impaired lower-leg muscle strength and workers whose jobs require substantial walking or running.
Mar 22, 2019
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Engineering
New 3-D printer shapes objects with rays of light
A new 3-D printer uses light to transform gooey liquids into complex solid objects in only a matter of minutes.
Jan 31, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Learning to teach to speed up learning
The first artificial intelligence programs to defeat the world's best players at chess and the game Go received at least some instruction by humans, and ultimately, would prove no match for a new generation of AI programs ...
Jan 30, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Survey of trends in artificial intelligence finds advances in working with human languages, global reach
For the past two years, a Stanford-led group has surveyed developments in artificial intelligence research to keep track of trends in the fast-paced field. In their second AI Index Report, published December 12, the group ...
Dec 13, 2018
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Computer Sciences
Computer hackers could be thwarted by new 'deception consistency' method
Can you deceive a deceiver? That's the question that computer scientists at Binghamton University, State University of New York have recently been exploring.
Nov 28, 2018
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