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MIT Researchers Develop New Lane-Change Algorithm for Self-Driving Cars

In the field of self-driving cars, algorithms for controlling lane changes are an important topic of study. But most existing lane-change algorithms have one of two drawbacks: Either they rely on detailed statistical models of the driving environment, which are difficult to assemble and too complex to analyze on the fly; or they're so simple that they can lead to impractically conservative decisions, such as never changing lanes at all.

23 May 2018

Combination of Wearable Technology and AI Can Predict Onset of Health Issues

Researchers from the University of Waterloo have discovered that applying artificial intelligence to the correct combination of data retrieved from wearable technology could detect whether a person’s health is deteriorating.

23 May 2018

AI Systems That Can Self-Design & Self-Assemble to Surpass Human-Built Systems

Scientists are designing artificially intelligent computer systems with the ability to self-design and self-assemble to work more efficiently when compared to the best human-developed systems.

23 May 2018

Devising Methods and Metrics for Machine Self-Assessment

As an analogy to the way “The Little Engine That Could” formerly chanted, researchers from the “I think I can, I think I can” university, sponsored by the Office of Naval Research, have been striving to impart the potential of self-assessment to robots and other autonomous systems.

23 May 2018

MIT Engineers Build Albatross-Like Autonomous Glider

A team of MIT engineers have built a robotic glider that can skim along the surface of the water, riding the wind like an albatross and simultaneously surfing the waves like a sailboat.

23 May 2018

New Microrobotics System Pushes the Limits of Optical Nanotechnologies

A novel microrobotics system, assembled by a French nanorobotics team at the Femto-ST Institute in Besançon, France, pushes the limits of optical nanotechnologies.

23 May 2018

Sparrow Drone from Percepto Deployed at Enel’s Torrevaldaliga Nord Power Plant

On-site autonomous drone system developer Percepto announced that Enel has finished deploying Percepto’s Sparrow drone system for use at its Torrevaldaliga Nord power plant. Maintenance and operation activities at the site will be supported by this multipurpose drone platform.

23 May 2018

Faux-Rodent Artificial Intelligence Program for Simulating Mammal Navigation

A UK-based research team has achieved an a-MAZE-ing development—it has created an artificial intelligence (AI) program with the ability to learn to find shortcuts through a maze to attain its goal. As part of the process, structures similar to those in the human brain were developed by the program.

22 May 2018

Using Drones to Inspect Transmission Towers and Associated High-Voltage Lines

With its focus on its commitment to offer customers with dependable electric service, currently, CPS Energy has been using drone technology to carry out regular, safer, and more efficient inspections of overhead infrastructure.

22 May 2018

RoboFly - A Giant Leap Forward for Robot-Kind

Time-consuming tasks such as detection of gas leaks or monitoring crop growth on large farms can be performed with the help of insect-sized flying robots. Since they are too small to use propellers, they fly by fluttering their tiny wings.

22 May 2018

Testing Counter-UAS Systems in Urban Settings

Innovative technology can offer advances in the way people do things, expanding the scope of areas that were previously not explored and streamlining previously arduous tasks. This holds true with regards to developments in drones or unmanned aerial systems (UAS).

22 May 2018

Engineers Develop Motorless Self-Propelled Robots

Robots that paddle through water without using any power supply, servos, or motors have been developed by a team of engineers. These first-of-their-kind devices are capable of self-propulsion because the material which is used to construct them deforms with changes in temperature.

22 May 2018