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Tech Xplore / Algae offer real potential as a renewable electricity source, research shows
The need to transition away from fossil fuels to more sustainable energy production is critical. That's why a team of Concordia researchers is looking at a potential power source that not only produces no carbon emissions ...
Tech Xplore / Computer vision method characterizes electronic material properties 85 times faster than conventional approach
Boosting the performance of solar cells, transistors, LEDs, and batteries will require better electronic materials, made from novel compositions that have yet to be discovered.
Tech Xplore / AI speech-to-text can hallucinate violent language
Speak a little too haltingly and with long pauses, and OpenAI's speech-to-text transcriber might put harmful, violent words in your mouth, Cornell researchers have discovered.
Tech Xplore / From seashells to cement, nature inspires tougher building material
Inspired by the material that makes up oyster and abalone shells, engineers at Princeton have created a new cement composite that is 17 times more crack-resistant than standard cement and 19 times more able to stretch and ...
Tech Xplore / Tactile sensing and logical reasoning strategies aid a robot's ability to recognize and classify objects
Today's intelligent robots can accurately recognize many objects through vision and touch. Tactile information, obtained through sensors, along with machine learning algorithms, enables robots to identify objects previously ...
Tech Xplore / Algorithms in the Arctic: Removing bad weather from images to make Arctic shipping safer
Arctic shipping traffic is on the increase. One day, these ships will be autonomous. New technology that can remove rain, snow and fog from the images produced by the ship's cameras and sensors will increase safety in extreme ...
Tech Xplore / An open-source generalist model for robot object manipulation
The public release of ChatGPT and other large language models (LLMs) has allowed developers worldwide to start experimenting with these models to enhance the interactive capabilities of their own systems. Similar generalizable ...
Tech Xplore / Advanced AI-based techniques scale-up solving complex combinatorial optimization problems
A framework based on advanced AI techniques can solve complex, computationally intensive problems faster and in a more scalable way than state-of-the-art methods, according to a study led by engineers at the University of ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers develop Superman-inspired imager chip for mobile devices
Researchers from The University of Texas at Dallas and Seoul National University have developed an imager chip inspired by Superman's X-ray vision that could be used in mobile devices to make it possible to detect objects ...
Tech Xplore / Apple partners with OpenAI as it unveils 'Apple Intelligence'
Apple on Monday unveiled "Apple Intelligence," its suite of new AI features for its coveted devices—and a partnership with OpenAI—as it seeks to catch up to rivals racing ahead on adopting the white-hot technology.
Tech Xplore / Four-legged, dog-like robot 'sniffs' hazardous gases in inaccessible environments
Nightmare material or truly man's best friend? A team of researchers equipped a dog-like quadruped robot with a mechanized arm that takes air samples from potentially treacherous situations, such as an abandoned building ...
Tech Xplore / Meta's AI can translate dozens of under-resourced languages
The technology behind Meta's artificial intelligence model, which can translate 200 different languages, is described in a paper published in Nature. The model expands the number of languages that can be translated via machine ...