Rapid adaptation of deep learning teaches drones to survive any weather
To be truly useful, drones—that is, autonomous flying vehicles—will need to learn to navigate real-world weather and wind conditions.
May 4, 2022
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Automotive
AI co-pilot enhances human precision for safer aviation
Imagine you're in an airplane with two pilots, one human and one computer. Both have their "hands" on the controllers, but they're always looking out for different things. If they're both paying attention to the same thing, ...
Oct 3, 2023
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Computer Sciences
An 'introspective' AI finds diversity improves performance
An artificial intelligence with the ability to look inward and fine tune its own neural network performs better when it chooses diversity over lack of diversity, a new study finds. The resulting diverse neural networks were ...
Aug 31, 2023
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Computer Sciences
How complex is your life? Computer scientists found a way to measure it
Nobel laureate economist Richard Thaler famously quipped: "People aren't dumb, the world is hard."
Aug 10, 2022
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Engineering
Reducing energy consumption: Researchers develop test system for passive cooling materials
Passive day cooling is a promising technology for the sustainable reduction of energy consumption. It avoids the heating up of buildings by solar radiation and dissipates accumulated heat without external energy consumption. ...
Jul 18, 2022
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Better behaving bots: Researcher helps robots problem solve and care
ANU researcher Hanna Kurniawati is helping robots problem solve and care. Her work has not just shaped how AI works every day; it's been recognized with a major global prize.
Jul 23, 2021
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Radiative cooling and solar heating from one system, no electricity needed
Passive cooling, like the shade a tree provides, has been around forever.
Feb 8, 2021
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Engineering
Smart glasses follow our eyes, focus automatically
Though it may not have the sting of death and taxes, presbyopia is another of life's guarantees. This vision defect plagues most of us starting about age 45, as the lenses in our eyes lose the elasticity needed to focus on ...
Jul 1, 2019
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Computer Sciences
Researchers design a type of Turing test for computer vision
A small team of researchers has developed a possible means for creating a Turing test for computer vision. In their paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Donald Geman, Neil Hallonquist and Laurent ...
Software
NASA flies drones autonomously for air taxi research
Researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia recently flew multiple drones beyond visual line of sight with no visual observer. The drones successfully flew around obstacles and each other during takeoff, ...
Dec 24, 2023
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