Artificial Intelligence
Rats have greater episodic memory than previously thought
Anyone who has ever spotted a familiar face at a party but been unable to place where or when they...
An algorithm for taxi sharing
Researchers in Uruguay have developed an evolutionary algorithm to allow a smart city to facilitate efficient taxi sharing to cut...
Artificial intelligence reveals mechanism behind brain tumor
Credits: wikimediaResearchers at Uppsala University have used computer modelling to study how brain tumours arise. The study, which is published...
Computer program beats physicians at brain cancer diagnoses
MRI scans of patients with radiation necrosis (above) and cancer recurrence (below) are shown in the left column. Close-ups in...
Social robots — programmable by everyone
Credit: © ScienceRELATIONSThe startup LuxAI was created following a research project at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust...
Research showing why hierarchy exists will aid the development of artificial intelligence
New research explains why so many biological networks, including the human brain (a network of neurons), exhibit a hierarchical structure,...
Algorithm could help detect and reduce power grid faults
BINGHAMTON, NY – The power grid is aging, overburdened and seeing more faults than ever, according to many. Any of...
Robots get creative to cut through clutter
Credit: Carnegie Mellon University Personal Robotics Lab PITTSBURGH–Clutter is a special challenge for robots, but new Carnegie Mellon University software...
In one aspect of vision, computers catch up to primate brain
A team of MIT neuroscientists has found that some computer programs can identify the objects in these images just as...
“Cognitive” control to underwater robots
For the last decade, scientists have deployed increasingly capable underwater robots to map and monitor pockets of the ocean to...
How we’re teaching computers to understand pictures
When a very young child looks at a picture, she can identify simple elements: "cat," "book," "chair." Now, computers are...
Artificially intelligent robot scientist ‘Eve’ could boost search for new drugs
Eve, an artificially-intelligent 'robot scientist' could make drug discovery faster and much cheaper, say researchers writing in the Royal Society...
Scientists urge artificial intelligence safety focus
The development of artificial intelligence is growing fast and hundreds of the world's leading scientists and entrepreneurs are urging a...
Computers that teach by example
New system enables pattern-recognition systems to convey what they learn to humans. Julie Shah (left) and Been Kim Photo Credit:...