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Teams crack code, qualify for final stage of NASA Space Robotics

Jan 18, 2021 (SPX)

Phase 2 of the Space Robotics Challenge, a NASA Centennial Challenge, is a $1 million prize competition to advance autonomous robotic operations for space explo...

Using light to revolutionize artificial intelligence

Jan 12, 2021 (SPX)

Artificial neural networks, layers of interconnected artificial neurons, are of great interest for machine learning tasks such as speech recognition and medical...

Pandemic's robot 'heroes' highlight their value at tech show

Jan 12, 2021 (AFP)

The Consumer Electronics Show, which is being held online this year due to the global crisis, includes robots that have become "heroes" for many during the coro...

Programming tweak helps AI software imitate human visual learning

Jan 12, 2021 (UPI)

The tweak, described Tuesday in the journal Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, yielded a model capable learning new objects faster than earlier AI program...

Amazon helps develop Alexa-like Callisto system for Artemis moon mission

Jan 05, 2021 (UPI)

The demonstration, called Callisto, will fly on the uncrewed Artemis 1 lunar mission that NASA hopes to launch in the next few months. It won't be able to contr...

A robotic revolution for urban nature

Jan 05, 2021 (SPX)

International research, involving over 170 experts and led by the University of Leeds, assessed the opportunities and challenges that this cutting-edge technolo...

Army research leads to more effective training model for robots

Dec 31, 2020 (SPX)

These learning components will permit autonomous agents to reason and adapt to changing battlefield conditions, said Army researcher Dr. Alec Koppel from the U....

U.S. Army, Clemson University partner on autonomous vehicle project

Dec 18, 2020 (UPI)

The study for the conversion of existing Army equipment to self-driving vehicles is enabled by an $18 million Defense Department grant in the school's Virtual P...

Northrop Grumman invests in Deepwave Digital's AI

Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)

"We're evolving the way we think and the way we work, to use emerging commercial technologies to provide our warfighters the most advanced capabilities more qui...

'Chaotic' way to create insectlike gaits for robots

Dec 16, 2020 (SPX)

Biology and physics are permeated by universal phenomena fundamentally grounded in nonlinear physics, and it inspired the researchers' work. In the journal Chao...

USAF makes history with first flight using artificial intelligence

Dec 16, 2020 (UPI)

An AI algorithm controlled the sensor and navigation systems of a U-2 Dragon Lady reconnaissance plane during a training flight at Beale Air Force Base, Calif.,...

'The robot made me do it': Robots encourage risk-taking behaviour in people

Dec 14, 2020 (SPX)

Dr Yaniv Hanoch, Associate Professor in Risk Management at the University of Southampton who led the study explained, "We know that peer pressure can lead to hi...

Warning over 'blind adoption' of AI and rights impact

Dec 14, 2020 (AFP)

Much of the attention on developments in AI "focuses on its potential to support economic growth", said the report, by the Fundamental Rights Agency (FRA). But ...

SoftBank sells controlling stake in Boston Dynamics to Hyundai

Dec 11, 2020 (AFP)

Boston Dynamics has drawn huge attention with viral videos of its humanoid and dog-like robots, whose uncanny movements and impressive tricks have helped stoke ...

ESA signs contracts for reusable Space Rider up to maiden flight

Dec 10, 2020 (ESA)

Launched on a Vega-C rocket, this spacecraft will serve as an uncrewed robotic laboratory in low Earth orbit, returning to Earth with its payloads and being reu...

Spain to invest 600 mn euros in artificial intelligence

Dec 02, 2020 (AFP)

The programme would run from 2021 to 2023, starting with an initial injection of 330 million euros, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said. Developing artificial int...

Computer-aided creativity in robot design

Dec 01, 2020 (SPX)

Choosing the right shape will be vital for your robot's ability to traverse a particular terrain. And it's impossible to build and test every potential form. Bu...

Machine learning guarantees robots' performance in unknown territory

Nov 18, 2020 (SPX)

This experiment is a proving ground for a pivotal challenge in modern robotics: the ability to guarantee the safety and success of automated robots operating in...

Robot dogs to enhance security at Tyndall AFB, Fla.

Nov 13, 2020 (UPI)

The Philadelphia-based technology company Ghost Robotics worked with the base's 325th Security Squadron for a year to develop the system of autonomous machines,...

Robotic AI learns to be spontaneous

Nov 12, 2020 (SPX)

Researchers offer an alternative machine learning-based method for designing spontaneous behaviors by capitalizing on complex temporal patterns, like neural act...