Researchers created a swarm of disc-shaped robots inspired by living cells, that can join together, squeeze through gaps, and keep moving even if many of its parts...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 26, 2019
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign researchers have developed a robot that can follow mental instructions from its operator to weld metal.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 8, 2019
Columbia University researchers have developed a robot that learns what it looks like without any outside help.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | February 6, 2019
Police in the UK want to predict serious violent crime using artificial intelligence, New Scientist can reveal. The idea is that individuals flagged by the system...New Scientist From ACM News | November 28, 2018
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is conducting a month-long military exercise using a variety of new technologies.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | October 31, 2018
Each of our brain cells could work like a mini-computer, according to the first recording of electrical activity in human cells at a super-fine level of detail....New Scientist From ACM News | October 24, 2018
What are the best two legs for running an obstacle course? One leg that crawls at the knee joint, and one massive leg dragged behind for stability like a kangaroo's...New Scientist From ACM News | October 12, 2018
Researchers at the Technical University of Cartagena in Spain deployed five autonomous underwater vehicles to locate and track oil spills below the surface of the...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 15, 2018
Researchers in Germany have developed a mobile laboratory to automate and accelerate the process of checking the wax coverage of grapes, a task prone to human error...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2018
The University of Zurich in Switzerland and Intel jointly developed a method to enable aerial drones to learn to avoid in-flight collisions.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 16, 2018
Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Germany have developed a new method to avoid embedding bias into machine learning algorithms....New Scientist From ACM TechNews | July 10, 2018
Harvey Mudd College researchers have developed a novel autonomous underwater vehicle that can explore the sea floor looking for signs of wrecked ships.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 19, 2018
IBM researchers have developed a system that translates offensive comments on social media into more polite language, while keeping the content intact.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | June 15, 2018
A team of researchers has found that a team of robot football (soccer) players trained to mimic how infant humans walk can beat other robots trained on geometric...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2018
Researchers have used laser beams to manipulate a sodium atom and a caesium atom into a single, asymmetrical molecule, making it potentially useful for quantum...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | April 17, 2018
Researchers say they have created the world's most complex biological computer, a group of engineered cells that could be implanted into the human body.
New Scientist From ACM TechNews | March 28, 2018
Maths fans can't get enough of numbers that are millions of digits long and can only be divided by themselves and one. Now, through a collaborative effort, utilising...New Scientist From ACM News | January 5, 2018
Researchers have been developing a tool that can take a single image of a face and create an animated version that puts on either a happy, sad, or angry expression...New Scientist From ACM TechNews | November 10, 2017