An inexpensive, full-page braille tablet could make topics like science and math more easily accessible to the blind, according to a team of researchers who have...Technology Review From ACM News | January 13, 2016
Virtual reality has grown immensely over the past few years, but 2016 looks like the most important year yet: it will be the first time that consumers can get their...Technology Review From ACM News | December 28, 2015
For all the talk of machines becoming intelligent, getting a sophisticated robot to do anything complex, like grabbing a heavy object and moving it from one place...Technology Review From ACM News | December 21, 2015
Driving around Beijing often feels unnervingly like a contact sport, with vehicles recklessly plunging through thick traffic, sneaking along the shoulder, or cutting...Technology Review From ACM News | December 10, 2015
An artificial intelligence engine that Google uses in many of its products, and that it made freely available last month, is now being used by others to perform...Technology Review From ACM News | December 9, 2015
China is laying the groundwork for a robot revolution by planning to automate the work currently done by millions of low-paid workers.Technology Review From ACM News | December 8, 2015
Italian and Swiss researchers have created an experimental telepresence robot that can be operated by disabled people via brain signals. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 3, 2015
A new machine-vision strategy for data-mining a massive database of high school yearbook photos has been pioneered at the University of California, Berkeley.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | December 1, 2015
The improvement of image-recognition software via deep learning could help usher in an era of image-based Web shopping/browsing.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 19, 2015
Artificial intelligence is a field in the midst of rapid, exciting change. That's largely because of an improved understanding of how neural networks work and the...Technology Review From ACM News | November 13, 2015
Owners of three-dimensional printers will be able to fabricate plastic hair using a method developed by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University.Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 3, 2015
Two robots operating in different academic research labs have demonstrated a rudimentary ability to exchange knowledge. Technology Review From ACM TechNews | November 2, 2015
In a move that makes it possible to seamlessly combine your love of emojis with adorable animal videos, a group of researchers has built a prototype of a search...Technology Review From ACM News | October 30, 2015
Enthusiastic Tesla owners cheered last Wednesday when the company enabled the use of an automated driving system, called Autopilot, in its Model S all-electric...Technology Review From ACM News | October 26, 2015
Scientists at Case Western Reserve University in Ohio say they’ve used electronics to get around a paralyzed man's spinal injury, permitting him to use an implant...Technology Review From ACM News | October 22, 2015