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Tech Xplore / Crossing the Uncanny Valley: Researchers develop technology for lifelike facial expressions in androids

Even if an android's appearance is so realistic that it could be mistaken for a human in a photograph, watching it move in person can feel a bit unsettling. It can smile, frown, or display other various, familiar expressions, ...

10 hours ago in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Self-supervised machine learning adapts to new tasks without retraining

The field of machine learning is traditionally divided into two main categories: "supervised" and "unsupervised" learning. In supervised learning, algorithms are trained on labeled data, where each input is paired with its ...

12 hours ago in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / Nondestructive microwave radar finds moisture hiding inside a building's walls

For homeowners, moisture buildup can cause the biggest headaches. Mold grows on drywall and wood-based materials, creeping along walls, floors and ceilings. Building materials begin to erode and rot. As insulation becomes ...

13 hours ago in Engineering
Tech Xplore / The internet is rife with fake reviews. Will AI make it worse?

The emergence of generative artificial intelligence tools that allow people to efficiently produce novel and detailed online reviews with almost no work has put merchants, service providers and consumers in uncharted territory, ...

10 hours ago in Internet
Tech Xplore / Cryptographic protocol enables secure data sharing in floating wind energy sector

Floating wind power offers enormous potential for deepwater offshore energy development. However, the management and secure exchange of data between stakeholders represents a key challenge for its evolution.

19 hours ago in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Robot mimics traditional Chinese massage techniques for therapeutic use

In recent years, roboticists have developed a wide range of systems that could eventually be introduced in health care and assisted living facilities. These include both medical robots and robots designed to provide companionship ...

Dec 21, 2024 in Robotics
Tech Xplore / Thermal evaporation emerges as a promising strategy for scalable solid-state battery production

Solid-state lithium batteries are promising energy storage solutions that utilize solid electrolytes as opposed to the liquid or gel electrolytes found in traditional lithium-ion batteries (LiBs). Compared to LiBs and other ...

Dec 20, 2024 in Engineering
Tech Xplore / New material for sodium-ion batteries brings affordable, sustainable future within grasp

While lithium-ion batteries have been the go-to technology for everything from smartphones and laptops to electric cars, there are growing concerns about the future because lithium is relatively scarce, expensive and difficult ...

Dec 20, 2024 in Energy & Green Tech
Tech Xplore / Open-source platform provides a virtual playground for human-AI teaming

Artificial intelligence (AI) has already become an invisible but indispensable collaborator in our lives. It helps filter spam from your inbox, improves your Netflix recommendations, and, as an automotive copilot, suggests ...

Dec 20, 2024 in Machine learning & AI
Tech Xplore / AI-driven gait analysis bridges health care and security fields

The analysis of a person's individual walking pattern, or gait, can reveal details about their identity and reflect differences between individuals, groups and even populations.

Dec 20, 2024 in Security
Tech Xplore / Fake credentials offer novel solution to e-voting challenges

As we come to the end of a year in which half the world's population went to the polls, EPFL researchers developed and field-tested a groundbreaking new technology to protect remote electronic voting or e-voting from voter ...

Dec 20, 2024 in Computer Sciences
Tech Xplore / AI-powered algorithm enables personalized age transformation for human faces

Researchers at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Maryland recently developed MyTimeMachine (MyTM), a new AI-powered method for personalized age transformation that can make human faces in images ...

Dec 19, 2024 in Computer Sciences