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Engineers Put Tens of Thousands of Artificial Brain Synapses on a Single Chip

MIT engineers have designed a “brain-on-a-chip,” smaller than a piece of confetti, that is made from tens of thousands of artificial brain synapses known as memristors — silicon-based components that mimic the information-transmitting synapses in the human brain.

10 Jun 2020

New AI Classifies Common Type of Brain Tumor into Low or High Grades

A new machine learning approach classifies a common type of brain tumour into low or high grades with almost 98% accuracy, researchers report in the journal IEEE Access.

9 Jun 2020

Improved Mole-Bot Could be Used for Space Exploration and Mining

Mole-bot, a drilling biomimetic robot designed by KAIST, boasts a stout scapula, a waist inclinable on all sides, and powerful forelimbs.

8 Jun 2020

New AI Platform Expedites R&D to Produce Commercially Desirable Materials

A technology named “Artificial Chemist” developed by researchers at North Carolina State University and the University at Buffalo integrates artificial intelligence (AI) and an automated system to carry out chemical reactions to ramp up R&D and manufacture commercially desirable materials.

5 Jun 2020

New Complex AI-Based Solution to Prevent COVID-19 Disease Spread

Fever Screener is a complex AI-based solution for crowded areas. The system detects people with high body temperature in public places.

5 Jun 2020

Researchers Develop Smallest, Most Dexterous Cockroach-Inspired Robot

HAMR-JR, a minuscule robot developed by researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and the Harvard Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, cannot climb up the waterspout.

4 Jun 2020

UV Lamp-Fitted Robots Effective at Killing Powdery Mildew in Vineyards

Robots installed with UV lamps and wandering through vineyards at night have been found to be effective at destroying powdery mildew, a catastrophic pathogen for various crops, including grapes.

4 Jun 2020

AI System Reveals Clues about the Birth of Planets and Stars

Over 2000 large protostars—new stars that are still emerging and may hold clues to the genesis of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy—have now been identified by an artificial intelligence (AI) system.

4 Jun 2020

New App Uses AI to Assess Risk Factors, Key Biomarkers of COVID-19

A new mobile app can help clinicians determine which patients with the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) are likely to have severe cases.

4 Jun 2020

New AI-Driven System can Measure Staff Comfort, Focus in Work Spaces

Computer scientists have developed a way to measure staff comfort and concentration in flexible working spaces using artificial intelligence.

4 Jun 2020

New Mobile Robotic Platform for Construction Sites

Husky A200—a mobile robotic platform—is being investigated by scientists for possible applications in autonomous logistic tasks performed on construction locations.

3 Jun 2020

New Study Aims to Use AI Methods to Manage Stock Portfolios

Researchers in Italy have melded the emerging science of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) with deep learning - a discipline within artificial intelligence - to achieve a system of market forecasting with the potential for greater gains and fewer losses than previous attempts to use AI methods to manage stock portfolios.

3 Jun 2020