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Tech Xplore / Soft robot mimics ancient cephalopods for efficient, low-noise underwater movement
Nature has long served as inspiration for cutting-edge engineering—especially in the realm of underwater propulsion.
Tech Xplore / Q&A with professor of computer science: What happens when AI faces the human problem of uncertainty?
In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, the question of how machines make decisions under uncertain conditions grows more urgent every day.
Tech Xplore / New scrubbing robot could contribute to automation of household chores
While the advent of robotic systems that can complete household chores has been widely anticipated, those commercially released so far are primarily robot vacuums that autonomously clean the floor. In contrast, robots that ...
Tech Xplore / Why humans excel at recognizing objects from fragments while AI struggles
A study from EPFL reveals why humans excel at recognizing objects from fragments while AI struggles, highlighting the critical role of contour integration in human vision.
Tech Xplore / Image generation reimagined: Tokenizers and decoders enable editing and inpainting without generators
AI image generation—which relies on neural networks to create new images from a variety of inputs, including text prompts—is projected to become a billion-dollar industry by the end of this decade. Even with today's technology, ...
Tech Xplore / AI chatbots remain overconfident—even when they're wrong, study finds
Artificial intelligence chatbots are everywhere these days, from smartphone apps and customer service portals to online search engines. But what happens when these handy tools overestimate their own abilities?
Tech Xplore / Stainless-steel component boosts bacteria-based biobattery
Engineering innovations generally require long hours in the lab, with a lot of trial and error through experimentation before zeroing in on the best solution.
Tech Xplore / New approach allows drone swarms to autonomously navigate complex environments at high speed
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), commonly known as drones, are now widely used worldwide to tackle various real-world tasks, including filming videos for various purposes, monitoring crops or other environments from above, ...
Tech Xplore / AI vision, reinvented: Vision-language models gain clearer sight through synthetic training data
In the race to develop AI that understands complex images like financial forecasts, medical diagrams and nutrition labels—essential for AI to operate independently in everyday settings—closed-source systems like ChatGPT ...
Tech Xplore / AI models learn to split up tasks, slashing wait times for complex prompts
As large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT continue to advance, user expectations of them keep growing, including with respect to how quickly they can respond to our increasingly intricate prompts requesting answers to ...
Tech Xplore / Co-intercalation process enables fast-charging sodium batteries
Li-ion and Na-ion batteries operate through a process called intercalation, where ions are stored and exchanged between two chemically different electrodes. In contrast, co-intercalation, a process in which both ions and ...
Tech Xplore / Scalable transformer accelerator enables on-device execution of large language models
Large language models (LLMs) like BERT and GPT are driving major advances in artificial intelligence, but their size and complexity typically require powerful servers and cloud infrastructure. Running these models directly ...
