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Tech Xplore / Playing games with robots makes people see them as more humanlike
The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become—according to new research from the University of East Anglia, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance.
Tech Xplore / Quantum machine learning improves semiconductor manufacturing for first time
Semiconductor processing is notoriously challenging. It is one of the most intricate feats of modern engineering due to the extreme precision required and the hundreds of steps involved, such as etching and layering, to make ...
Tech Xplore / Young children outperform state-of-the-art AI in visual object recognition
As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly grows—a recent UN Trade and Development report projects the global AI market soaring to $4.8 trillion by 2033—the technology seems equipped to handle any task. Driving cars. Analyzing ...
Tech Xplore / ReSURF: Stretchable, self-healing water quality sensor enables ultrafast surveillance
Clean, safe water is vital for human health and well-being. It also plays a critical role in our food security, supports high-tech industries, and enables sustainable urbanization. However, detecting contamination quickly ...
Tech Xplore / Centaur: AI that thinks like us—and could help explain how we think
Researchers at Helmholtz Munich have developed an artificial intelligence model that can simulate human behavior with remarkable accuracy. The language model, called Centaur, was trained on more than ten million decisions ...
Tech Xplore / Striking parallels between biological brains and AI during social interaction suggest fundamental principles
UCLA researchers have made a significant discovery showing that biological brains and artificial intelligence systems develop remarkably similar neural patterns during social interaction. This first-of-its-kind study reveals ...
Tech Xplore / Spongy material and the sun's power remove salt from seawater
Most of Earth's water is in the oceans and too salty to drink. Desalination plants can make seawater drinkable, but they require large amounts of energy. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Energy Letters have developed a sponge-like ...
Tech Xplore / Tough fuel cell can stabilize power grid by making and storing energy in extreme industrial conditions
To build a modern-day electrical grid with the flexibility and resilience to handle ebbing and flowing energy sources like solar and wind power, West Virginia University engineers have designed and successfully tested a fuel ...
Tech Xplore / Cheaper energy bills: AI-created materials could cool cities and spacecraft
New materials developed using machine learning and artificial intelligence could, among other things, keep your house cooler and reduce energy bills.
Tech Xplore / Shifting UK car exhausts to the right could dramatically cut roadside air pollution
Harmful air pollutants on U.K. pavements generated by diesel cars could be slashed by a third if car exhausts were positioned on the right, according to a new study published in ACS ES&T Air.
Tech Xplore / Robots could one day crawl across the moon, and undergrads are laying the groundwork
The future of moon exploration may be rolling around a nondescript office on the CU Boulder campus. Here, a robot about as wide as a large pizza scoots forward on three wheels. It uses an arm with a claw at one end to pick ...
Tech Xplore / New system allows acoustic robots to co-operatively transport objects
While so far robots have predominantly been deployed individually, as teams, they can tackle a wider range of complex missions with remarkable speed and efficiency. For instance, they could help to rapidly transport objects ...
