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Building artificial intelligence into medical devices can speed diagnoses and potentially improve treatments and outcomes.
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Breakthrough in Computer Chip Energy Efficiency Could Cut Datacenter Electricity Use
Researchers at Oregon State (OSU) and Baylor universities have significantly cut the energy consumption of photonic chips used in datacenters and supercomputers...
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Computer Model Predicts Whether a Pesticide Will Harm Bees
Oregon State University researchers trained a machine learning model to forecast whether new herbicides, fungicides, or insecticides would harm honey bees.
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Bipedal Robot Learns to Run, Completes 5K
An untethered bipedal robot engineered by Oregon State University (OSU) researchers and built by OSU spinout company Agility Robotics completed a five-kilometer...
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Comedy Club Performances Provide Insights on How Robots, Humans Connect via Humor
Two studies evaluated a robot comedian's performance at comedy clubs to gather data to enable more effective robot-human interplay through humor.
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