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Tech Xplore / Air-powered artificial muscles could help robots lift 100 times their weight
Researchers at Arizona State University are developing bio-inspired robotic "muscles" that will enable robots to operate in boiling water, survive abrasive surfaces, bypass impediments that keep their motorized counterparts ...
Tech Xplore / Crashing waves vs. rising tides: Overturning prior views about how AI could overtake human workers
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has said that AI could surpass "almost all humans at almost everything" shortly after 2027. While AI's capabilities are certainly improving, such rapid progress might seem at odds with findings ...
Tech Xplore / Gold coating could solve long-standing challenge with zinc batteries
As the demand for more reliable power systems grows in the renewable energy sector, the race is on to develop batteries that cost less but have a longer lifespan. While zinc-based batteries are safer and more cost-effective ...
Tech Xplore / How electric vehicles could back up the power system
Electric vehicles (EVs) could do more for our environment than simply replace gasoline. Published in Joule, a new assessment of EV charging strategies suggests that EVs could serve as a vast network of mobile batteries, storing ...
Tech Xplore / New method predicts the success of LLMs on untried tasks with high accuracy
A team from the Universitat Politècnica de València, part of the Valencian University Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (VRAIN) and ValgrAI, has participated in the development of ADeLe, a new methodology that ...
Tech Xplore / Brain-inspired chip could make some AI tasks up to 2,000 times more energy efficient
A new type of computer chip that uses the physics of materials to process information could make some artificial intelligence (AI) systems far more energy efficient, researchers have found. Loughborough University physicists ...
Tech Xplore / Lab tests find Yankees' torpedo bat matches standard bat for power
The New York Yankees took the baseball world by storm with the newly designed torpedo bat last year, but the revolutionary design has ended up being no better than a standard bat for hitting the ball out of the park. In the ...
Tech Xplore / Fair decisions, clear reasons: Creating fuzzy AI with fairness built in from the start
Although AI is not intentionally biased, it can inherit biases from the data fed into it, learning and repeating them until the system becomes inherently unfair. This is complicated by the problem of identifying where the ...
Tech Xplore / New AI testing method flags fairness risks in autonomous systems
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being used to help optimize decision-making in high-stakes settings. For instance, an autonomous system can identify a power distribution strategy that minimizes costs while keeping ...
Tech Xplore / Researchers measure traffic emissions, to the block, in real-time
In a study focused on New York City, MIT researchers have shown that existing sensors and mobile data can be used to generate a near real-time, high-resolution picture of auto emissions, which could be used to develop local ...
Tech Xplore / Do you trust me? A framework for making networks of robots and vehicles safer
From birds flying in formation to students working on a group project, the functioning of a group requires not only coordination and communication but also trust—each member must be confident in the others. The same is true ...
Tech Xplore / Got an awkward or embarrassing Gmail address? Google is now letting users change it
Good news for people who regret the Gmail address they came up with when they registered for an account: Google is now letting users change it.
