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Shrinking a Key Component Could Help Make Self-Driving Cars Affordable

Engineers and business leaders have been working on autonomous cars for years, but there's one big obstacle to making them cheap enough to become commonplace.

17 Apr 2020

AI Tool to Help Fast-Track Allocation of Funding for COVID-19 Research

An Artificial Intelligence tool to help funders identify specialists to peer-review proposals for emergency COVID-19 research has been developed. It aims to help fast-track the allocation of funding, and in turn, accelerate the scientific response to the virus.

17 Apr 2020

Scientists Explore People's Trust in Fellow Humans and Robots

In research published in the Journal of Economic Psychology, scientists explore whether people trust robots as they do fellow humans.

17 Apr 2020

New Robot Helps Find People in Undesired Situations of Solitude

There has been substantial proof of the potential negative effects of undesired solitude on people. This has made specialists consider it a public health problem.

17 Apr 2020

Biorobotics to Play Vital Role in Development of Fish Farming

Underwater robots or human divers conventionally examine the behavior of fish in a fish cage. The work of divers is costly and fish are mainly afraid of the invader. Therefore, the fish cannot be observed in their natural state by diving. The same challenge is faced while using huge underwater robots.

17 Apr 2020

Penn State Researcher Receives DARPA Grant to Increase Computer Security

A parser, the element in a computer system that converts data inputs into an understandable format, is the first line of defense for cybersecurity.

16 Apr 2020

New Robot Uses UV Light Vectors to Quickly Disinfect Masks

A new robot obtained by the University of Virginia Health System (UVA Health) has been helping to increase the service life of some of the most vital PPE, during the increased surge in demand for these items.

16 Apr 2020

Optimizing Underwater ROVs to Collect More Scientific Data

An Australian-led study has shown that robots could be tuned to collect additional scientific information, optimizing the capabilities of environmental and resource management.

16 Apr 2020

Nuance Introduces AI Solution to Eliminate Putting Customers on Hold

Nuance Communications, Inc. today announced a solution that uses AI to eliminate putting customers on hold.

15 Apr 2020

Soul Machines Unveils Bella to Assist in Dissemination of Information During Public Crisis

Soul Machines – a leading innovator in the field of AI – is enlisting their technology to assist in the dissemination of information in times of public crisis, starting in New Zealand for the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

15 Apr 2020

Robots to Use Artificial Intelligence Tool for Making Safe, Reliable Decisions

Just like humans, when robots have a decision to make there are often many options and hundreds of potential outcomes.

15 Apr 2020

New Semi-Autonomous Robot can Quickly Disinfect Large Surfaces

Researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore have developed a semi-autonomous robot that can disinfect large surfaces quickly. The researchers are planning to have public trials to support Singapore's fight against COVID-19.

15 Apr 2020

UTA Computer Scientist Seeks to Enhance Perception Capabilities of Robots

Using a new field of applied mathematics, a computer scientist at The University of Texas at Arlington is working to enhance the perception capabilities of robots.

15 Apr 2020

Showa Denko, AIST, NEDO and ADMAT Prove AI Speeds up Development of Flexible Transparent Film

Showa Denko, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization and Research Association of High-Throughput Design and Development for Advanced Functional Materials have cooperatively proved that introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into the process to develop flexible transparent film can reduce the numbers of times of experiment to produce film that satisfies required properties to one-twenty-fifth or less of those conventional development methods require.

15 Apr 2020