Top news of the week: 04.02.2023.
AI has caused a renaissance of tech industry R&D, says Meta's chief AI scientist
There are many promising commercial applications already that may lead to productivity increases, but, ultimately, AI must develop an ability to plan if it is to truly advance, says Yann ...
The Bionic-Hand Arms Race
Tensegrity robots are made of networks of rigid frames and soft cables, which enable them to change their shape by adjusting their internal tension.
Roboticists Want to Give You a Third Arm
Unused bandwidth in neurons can be tapped to control extra limbs
Decoding Human Emotion Through Affective Computing
In episode 87 of the Feedback Loop, we sit down with the woman credited as the founder of the field, MIT professor, and co-founder of Empatica, Rosalind Picard. Together we explore the ...
A college student built an AI to help look for alien radio signals
A University of Toronto undergrad working alongside SETI designed an AI to comb radio data, and it's already showing promise.
Our future could be full of undying, self-repairing robots – here’s how
By Jonathan Roberts (Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology) With generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems such as ChatGPT and StableDiffusion being the …
Watch This Shape-Shifting Robot Melt to Escape a Cage, Then Reform
The robot could have all kinds of real-world applications, from performing tasks in tight spaces to accessing hard-to-reach parts of the body.
Is ChatGPT Coming for Your Job?
We asked the robot itself what impact the ChatGPT AI could have on the engineering profession.