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Researchers show how their multilegged walking robot can be steered by inducing a dynamic instability. By making the couplings between segments more flexible, the robot changes from walking straight to moving in a curved path. This work can lead to more energy-efficient and reliable robotic navigation of terrain.

Miniaturization is progressing rapidly in just any field and the trend towards the creation of ever smaller units is also prevalent in the world of robot technology. In the future, minuscule robots used in medical and pharmaceutical applications might be able to transport medication to targeted sites in the body. Statistical physics can contribute to […]

As robots assume more roles in the world, a new analysis reviewed research on robot rights, concluding that granting rights to robots is a bad idea. Instead, the article looks to Confucianism to offer an alternative.

A robotic bee that can fly fully in all directions has been developed. With four wings made out of carbon fiber and mylar as well as four light-weight actuators to control each wing, the Bee++ prototype is the first to fly stably in all directions. That includes the tricky twisting motion known as yaw, with […]

Engineers have discovered a new way to program robots to help people with dementia locate medicine, glasses, phones and other objects they need but have lost.

With the help of extensive data from intensive care units of various hospitals, an artificial intelligence was developed that provides suggestions for the treatment of people who require intensive care due to sepsis. Analyses show that artificial intelligence already surpasses the quality of human decisions. However, it is now important to also discuss the legal […]

Researchers have developed a robot, called ReMotion, that occupies physical space on a remote user's behalf, automatically mirroring the user's movements in real time and conveying key body language that is lost in standard virtual environments.

As AI becomes increasingly realistic, our trust in those with whom we communicate may be compromised. Researchers at the University of Gothenburg have examined how advanced AI systems impact our trust in the individuals we interact with.

Intrigued to see if the many limbs could be helpful for locomotion in this world, a team of physicists, engineers, and mathematicians are using this style of movement to their advantage. They developed a new theory of multilegged locomotion and created many-legged robotic models, discovering the robot with redundant legs could move across uneven surfaces […]

Automation uncovers combinations of amino acids that feed two bacterial species and could tell us much more about the 90% of bacteria that humans have hardly studied. An artificial intelligence system enables robots to conduct autonomous scientific experiments -- as many as 10,000 per day -- potentially driving a drastic leap forward in the pace […]

A lab has developed a deep neural network that improves the accuracy of their unique devices for detecting pathogen biomarkers.

It's time to roll up your sleeves for the next advance in wearable technology -- a fabric armband that's actually a touch pad. Researchers say they have devised a way to make playing video games, sketching cartoons and signing documents easier. Their proof-of-concept silk armband turns a person's forearm into a keyboard or sketchpad. The […]

Researchers demonstrated a highly dexterous robot hand, one that combines an advanced sense of touch with motor learning algorithms in order to achieve a high level of dexterity. In addition, the hand worked without any external cameras -- it's immune to lighting, occlusion, or similar issues. Because the hand doesn't rely on vision to manipulate […]

A new gripper robot grasps by reflex. Rather than start from scratch after a failed attempt, the bot adapts in the moment to reflexively roll, palm, or pinch an object to get a better hold.

New research shows us that age-old interactions between people and their horses can teach us something about building robots designed to improve our lives.

Roboticists have developed a jellyfish-inspired underwater robot with which they hope one day to collect waste from the bottom of the ocean. The almost noise-free prototype can trap objects underneath its body without physical contact, thereby enabling safe interactions in delicate environments such as coral reefs. Jellyfish-Bot could become an important tool for environmental remediation.

ChatGPT faced off against students on accounting assessments. Students scored an overall average of 76.7%, compared to ChatGPT's score of 47.4%. On a 11.3% of questions, ChatGPT scored higher than the student average, doing particularly well on AIS and auditing. But the AI bot did worse on tax, financial, and managerial assessments, possibly because ChatGPT […]

Recently quantum computers started to work with more than just the zeros and ones we know from classical computers. Now a team demonstrates a way to efficiently create entanglement of such high-dimensional systems to enable more powerful calculations.

Researchers have designed a system that makes an off-the-shelf quadruped robot nimble enough to walk a narrow balance beam -- a feat that is likely the first of its kind.

The new smart sensor uses embedded information to detect motion in a single video frame.

The world changed on November 30, 2022 as surely as it did on August 12, 1908 when the first Model T left the Ford assembly line. That was the date when OpenAI released ChatGPT, the day that AI emerged from research labs into an unsuspecting world. Within two months, ChatGPT had over a hundred million […]

Last year, my IWD post was loaded with facts and figures that told the story of women’s fight for equality in the workforce and explored what companies could do to help neutralize the disparities women face every day. And I stand by what I wrote. IWD is absolutely a reason to push employers to hire […]

“America’s job machine is going stronger than ever,” President Biden said in a speech at the White House on Friday, February 4, 2022, after what was considered a very strong January jobs report. “America is back to work.” For America’s men, that’s true. But women have yet to be propelled back into the workforce by […]

Machine Learning (ML) inference, defined as the process of deploying a trained model and serving live queries with it, is an essential component of many deployed ML systems and is often a significant portion of their total cost. Costs can grow even more uncontrollably when considering hardware accelerators such as GPUs. Many modern user-focused applications […]

Greetings, fellow reader of articles on the internet! Do you work on a service that you (and, presumably, your users) would like to keep working? Well, if so, I’m here to convince you that your service should have at least one or two generic mitigations ready to go. If it doesn’t, you’re in for a […]

As Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) at Google running a service in a shared production environment, we usually configure the service to create multiple instances of the program (for redundancy, availability, and throughput), which are then scheduled into a subset of machines in the data center. The service owner decides how many replicas, or tasks, to […]

Machine learning (ML) systems have become increasingly accessible in commodity software systems through cloud-based Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) or software libraries. However, even though ML systems may resemble traditional data pipelines, they are distinct in that they provide software systems a way to learn from experience. We will show how this difference presents novel challenges, […]

This selection of videos from the O’Reilly Software Architecture Conference in New York (held February 23-26, 2020) is a diverse sampling from the illustrative sessions and thought-provoking keynotes that helped our audience improve their skill sets, refine their decision-making abilities, and improve their organizations’ architectures. Check out the full event compilation on the O’Reilly online […]

I was recently asked, “How do you think businesses should approach diversity and inclusion?” The question really forced me to think. I’ve seen an increasing number of companies publish their yearly diversity statistics and celebrate their progress. In truth, I’ve taken a similar approach in an annual post for O’Reilly employees. Every year. Like clockwork. […]

Learn new topics and refine your skills with more than 160 new live online training courses we opened up for March and April on the O’Reilly online learning platform. AI and machine learning Debugging Data Science, Part 1: Evaluating Machine Learning in Practice, March 9 Introduction to Machine Learning for Algorithmic Trading, March 11 Debugging […]

At O’Reilly, it’s in our DNA to always do the right thing for our customers, our team, and our partners. Which is why, given the news about the recent outbreak of COVID-19, we’ve decided not to move forward with Strata Data & AI in San Jose on March 15th. Instead, we’re merging it with our […]

Despite the drive in some quarters to make microservice architectures the default approach for software, I feel that due to their numerous challenges, adopting them still requires careful thought. You need to assess your problem space, your skills, technology landscape, and understand what you are trying to achieve before deciding if microservices are right for […]

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor  The AI stack defined by Carnegie Mellon University is fundamental to the approach being taken by the US Army for its AI development platform efforts, according to Isaac Faber, Chief Data Scientist at the US Army AI Integration Center, speaking at the AI World Government event held in-person and virtually […]

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Advancing trustworthy AI and machine learning to mitigate agency risk is a priority for the US Department of Energy (DOE), and identifying best practices for implementing AI at scale is a priority for the US General Services Administration (GSA).   That’s what attendees learned in two sessions at the AI […]

By AI Trends Staff   While AI in hiring is now widely used for writing job descriptions, screening candidates, and automating interviews, it poses a risk of wide discrimination if not implemented carefully.  That was the message from Keith Sonderling, Commissioner with the US Equal Opportunity Commision, speaking at the AI World Government event held live and virtually in […]

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   More companies are successfully exploiting predictive maintenance systems that combine AI and IoT sensors to collect data that anticipates breakdowns and recommends preventive action before break or machines fail, in a demonstration of an AI use case with proven value.   This growth is reflected in optimistic market forecasts. […]

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider   We already expect that humans to exhibit flashes of brilliance. It might not happen all the time, but the act itself is welcomed and not altogether disturbing when it occurs.    What about when Artificial Intelligence (AI) seems to display an act of novelty? Any such instance is bound to get our attention; […]

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   Engineers tend to see things in unambiguous terms, which some may call Black and White terms, such as a choice between right or wrong and good and bad. The consideration of ethics in AI is highly nuanced, with vast gray areas, making it  challenging for AI software engineers to […]

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor   AI is more accessible to young people in the workforce who grew up as ‘digital natives’ with Alexa and self-driving cars as part of the landscape, giving them expectations grounded in their experience of what is possible.   That idea set the foundation for a panel discussion at AI World […]

By John P. Desmond, AI Trends Editor    Two experiences of how AI developers within the federal government are pursuing AI accountability practices were outlined at the AI World Government event held virtually and in-person this week in Alexandria, Va.  Taka Ariga, chief data scientist and director at the US Government Accountability Office, described an AI accountability framework he uses within his agency […]

By AI Trends Staff   Advances in the AI behind speech recognition are driving growth in the market, attracting venture capital and funding startups, posing challenges to established players.   The growing acceptance and use of speech recognition devices are driving the market, which according to an estimate by Meticulous Research is expected to reach $26.8 billion […]

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider     Are there things that we must not know?    This is an age-old question. Some assert that there is the potential for knowledge that ought to not be known. In other words, there are ideas, concepts, or mental formulations that should we become aware of that knowledge it could be […]

(University of Illinois College of Liberal Arts & Sciences) The US National Science Foundation and the German Research Foundation have joined forces to award the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and Technical University of Darmstadt a three-year $720,000 research grant to explore opportunities to more efficiently produce green hydrogen, a clean and renewable source of energy.

(Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization) A phenomenon known from quantum systems could now make its way into biology:In a new study published in Physical Review X, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS) in Goettingen show that the notion of topological protection can also apply to biochemical networks. The […]

(University of California - San Diego) UC San Diego engineers developed a soft, stretchy ultrasound patch that can be worn on the skin to monitor blood flow through vessels deep inside the body. Such a device can make it easier to detect cardiovascular problems, like blockages in the arteries that could lead to strokes or […]

(National Korea Maritime and Ocean University) The lithium-ion battery is the future of sustainable energy technology, but drastic volume fluctuations in their anodes related to enhanced battery capacity raises a safety concern. Recently, researchers from the Republic of Korea have found that embedding manganese selenide anodes in a 3D carbon nanosheet matrix is an innovative, […]

(Samara Polytech (Samara State Technical University)) Samara Polytech scientists have created a test bench that simulates the operating conditions of tubing pipes that extract oil fluid from the formation.

(Georgia Institute of Technology) An international team of researchers led by Georgia Tech is combining soft scalp electronics and virtual reality in a brain-interface system, recently published in Advanced Science.

(American Chemical Society) No one wants bad breath -- not when visiting friends and family, at a job interview, and especially not on a first date. Smelly breath can make things awkward, but it also is a natural warning sign, indicating that serious dental issues are occurring. Now, researchers reporting in ACS Nano have constructed […]

(Cornell University) Researchers at Cornell University have developed nanostructures that enable record-breaking conversion of laser pulses into high-harmonic generation, paving the way for new scientific tools for high-resolution imaging.

(Northwestern University) The method from a research team led by Professor Horacio Espinosa could lead to more accurate predictions of how new materials behave at the atomic scale.

(University of California - Irvine) In research published in the journal Optica, University of California, Irvine researchers describe a new type of camera technology that, when aimed at an object, can rapidly retrieve 3D images, displaying its chemical content down to the micrometer scale.

(New York Academy of Sciences) The Blavatnik National Awards for Young Scientists announce the 2021 laureates. Each will receive $250,000, the largest unrestricted scientific prize for America's most innovative young faculty-rank scientists and engineers. Winners include:Kay M. Tye, a neuroscientist at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, Calif..Mircea Dinc?, an inorganic chemist […]

(University of Surrey) One of the leading thinkers in nano-science has called on the energy materials community to help finally put an end to the world's reliance on fossil fuels.

(DOE/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Scientists at Berkeley Lab and UC Berkeley have created an ultrathin magnet that operates at room temperature. The ultrathin magnet could lead to new applications in computing and electronics - such as high-density, compact spintronic memory devices - and new tools for the study of quantum physics.

(Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo) Researchers from The University of Tokyo Institute of Industrial Science have developed a machine learning-based model to predict the characteristics of bonded systems. Using the density of states of the individual component reactants, they have achieved accurate predictions of the binding energy, bond length, number of covalent […]

(U.S. Army Research Laboratory) Army-funded research identified a new material that may lead to lightweight armor, protective coatings, blast shields and other impact-resistant structures.

(Kazan Federal University) The article represents the transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and flow cytometry study of A-549 (human lung carcinoma) cellular uptake of Pr3+:LaF3 nanoparticles. The Pr3+:LaF3 nanoparticles are promising platforms for cell nano-sensors.

(University of Washington School of Medicine/UW Medicine) Protein design researchers have created a freely available method, RoseTTAFold, to provide access to highly accurate protein structure prediction. Scientists around the world are using it to build protein models to accelerate their research. The tool uses deep learning to quickly predict protein structures based on limited information, […]

(DOE/SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory) Scientist demonstrated a new way of observing atoms as they move in a tiny quantum electronic switch as it operates. Along the way, they discovered a new material state that could pave the way for faster, more energy-efficient computing.

(Queen Mary University of London) A new study, published today in Nature Physics, has shown that it is possible to create tiny, self-powered swimming robots from three simple ingredients.

(Technical University of Munich (TUM)) To date, there are no effective antidotes against most virus infections. An interdisciplinary research team at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now developed a new approach: they engulf and neutralize viruses with nano-capsules tailored from genetic material using the DNA origami method. The strategy has already been tested […]

The social audio hype has died down—but its esoteric charms persist in certain corners of the internet.

From Air to Borat Subsequent Moviefilm, these are the must-watch films on the streamer.

From Carnival Row to Rings of Power, these are our picks for what you should be watching on the streamer.

From Queer Eye to Black Knight, these are our picks for the best streaming titles to binge this week.

From The Trial of the Chicago 7 to Zombieland, here are our picks for the best streaming titles to feast your eyes on.

Most people will need more than 50 hours to beat Nintendo’s latest game. A determined clique of players can do it much, much faster.

The streaming industry has been facing a reckoning for a while. This week, it hit.

HBO’s critical-darling drama may be ending on Sunday, but the internet will always remember the Roys.

From Swan Song to CODA, here's everything you should be watching on Apple's streaming service.

We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of “The Pitchfork Review,” about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.

Inside the strange world of podcasts made by artificial intelligence, where even creators aren’t sure who wants to hear robot chit-chat.

From Silo to Ted Lasso, here's everything you need to be watching on the streamer.

WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist peers into the psyche of ChatGPT.

From Parasite to Moonage Daydream, here are our favorite movies on the streaming service.

From Barry to Succession, Max is a streaming paradise of “it’s not TV” television.

The series has come a long way from Final Fantasy VII’s infamous blood-free death-by-impalement.

Somehow Warner Bros. Discovery thinks it’s a good idea to relaunch its HBO Max streaming service as just “Max” in the middle of a Hollywood shakeup.

Dominic Toretto and company have made millions at the box office by doing something no one else has pulled off: Making movies that are truly for the fans.

Director Hidemaro Fujibayashi and producer Eiji Aonuma weigh in on Link’s stink, Ultrahand, and getting lost in the world they created.

Sudowrite, a tool that uses OpenAI’s GPT-3, was found to have understood a sexual act known only to a specific online community of Omegaverse writers.

Time is money. Reclaim your precious minutes with these strategies for in-person and virtual meetings.

The EV giant is under pressure to launch new products, but a huge dump of confidential files in Germany details a litany of technical failings.

US lawmakers and CEOs alike say new rules are needed to prevent artificial intelligence from doing harm. So far, there are more wish lists than laws.

The Chinese shopping app is topping app stores in the US. But it’s burning money and squeezing its suppliers to a breaking point in a bid to take on Amazon.

As the main candidates head to a runoff, disinformation is running riot on Turkish social media.

A few years ago, humanoid robots were clumsy and awkward. Now several startups claim to have models almost ready to go to work in warehouses and factories.

Artificial intelligence continues to be fed racist and sexist training materials and then distributed around the world.

A security review describes how attackers exploited mistakes to steal millions of dollars worth of bitcoin.

Researchers say Armenian government workers, journalists, and at least one United Nations official were targeted by the NSO tool.

Launching his White House bid on the social network revealed the technical and political limitations of Musk’s platform.

On a stop in London, the OpenAI CEO called for balanced regulation and warned of the risks of deepfake disinformation.

We talk to Puja Patel, editor in chief of Pitchfork and cohost of “The Pitchfork Review,” about how AI is taking over our feeds and where it goes from here.

Advertisers can save money and perhaps make ads more clickable using ChatGPT-style tools to generate text and images. Meta is testing similar technology.

Global trade relies on ships powered by dirty fuel. To meet climate deadlines, some are proposing a return to wind power.

The wild success of Dogecoin and other joke cryptocurrencies has led to many imitators. But the joke has to come at somebody’s expense.

The record-breaking GDPR penalty for data transfers to the US could upend Meta's business and spur regulators to finalize a new data-sharing agreement.

Elon Musk’s appointment repeats a pattern in which companies led into crisis by men suddenly appoint women leaders.

The new tool basically transforms ChatGPT into a virtual assistant to help you manage projects, run a marketing campaign, and more.

I used Duet AI to send emails and plan my wedding. Its writing can be stuffy and stereotyping—but it’s a glimpse of the future of productivity apps.

Remote work revealed that core areas of San Francisco and other cities are overreliant on offices. It’s time to reimagine what—and who—downtowns are for.

The code-hosting platform's headquarters was a living testament to tech values and one of its first disputed territories.

Recommendations from the new report on youth mental health won’t protect kids—but they’ll destroy the privacy of everyone who uses the internet.

The internet has led to the rise of a 'hyper-modern' pan-Asian beauty ideal.

Nintendo's Luigi has a chaos-causing alter ego. AI's shadow could put humanity at risk—but can be contained.

Conversation around generative AI tends to focus on whether its development is open or closed. It's more responsible to envision releases along a gradient.

Social media companies claim new language models can remove harmful content in every language. But those systems’ shortcomings can have vast consequences.

WIRED’s spiritual advice columnist peers into the psyche of ChatGPT.

Ironically, using a device to help me fall asleep has relieved me of the burden of self-moralizing about my tech usage.

The city’s first-of-its-kind policy encourages its public servants to use the technology—and could serve as a blueprint for other governments.

From social networks to crypto, independently run servers are being touted as a solution to the internet’s problems. But they’re far from a magic bullet.

Zoom did not set us free. But solidarity can strengthen the porous boundary between home and workplace.

Chats with the grandparents over FaceTime are important. All the panic about kids' devices is really about childhood itself.

Algorithms can exacerbate employment discrimination. It's time for the US Federal Trade Commission to regulate them.

The new social platform will never be the “next Twitter”—and that’s by design.

Now that I work in machine learning, I’m often struck by the parallels between this cutting-edge technology and traditional Chinese medicine.

The software transformed the field of word processors by eliminating features, not adding them. But it never mustered the will to truly dominate.

Warning labels on AI-generated media give viewers little context. Artists and human rights advocates have forged a more effective—and creative—path.

The earth is a shared inheritance, and profiting off a common resource is just wrong.

The US climate movement is often beguiled by glitzy, high-tech solutions. But these can be a costly distraction.

Forget crypto, VR, AI. When it comes to empowering humans, new technology has nothing on the well-tempered clavier.