A team of researchers at the University of Tehran in Iran has developed a fourth version of the Surena humanoid robotic system.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 18, 2020
Researchers have demonstrated how to teach a PR2 robot to perform simple repairs on itself by tightening its own screws.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2019
Researchers have developed a hand-tracking system to determine how long it would take a driver to assume control of a self-driving car in an emergency.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2019
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobee robot is now up and running on the International Space Station (ISS).
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2019
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories will be among the first organizations to deploy artificial intelligence computers...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 26, 2019
Researchers are using deep internal learning, in which a machine learning algorithm ascertains the internal structure of a single image from scratch, to edit photos...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2019
Researchers have created a compact accelerator that relieves a CPU of the "garbage collection" task of deleting redundant or irrelevant data from apps to make more...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 13, 2019
Security researchers from Tencent have demonstrated a way to use physical attacks to spoof Tesla's autopilot.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | April 4, 2019
Researchers have developed robots that can demilitarize up to 21 warheads in an eight-hour shift, which equates to 13,524 bomblets being recycled per day.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 5, 2019
A new encryption system performs schemes that classical computers can use, but quantum computers cannot crack.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 28, 2019
Drones flying over the Galapagos island of North Seymour dropped rat poison in an effort to eliminate invasive black and brown rats.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2019
A few days before Christmas, U.S. President Donald Trump signed a bill into law that devotes more than US $1.2 billion to a national effort dedicated to quantum...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | January 11, 2019
The Ethereum Foundation, and the broader open source movement devoted to advancing the cryptocurrency bitcoin, plan to field-test an overhaul of Ethereum's code...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 4, 2019
Roboticists at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition are teaching Boston Dynamics' humanoid robot Atlas a more natural walking gait.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2018
A task force evaluated the feasibility of developing a functional quantum computer, emphasizing "the time and resources required, and how to assess the probability...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 10, 2018
DeepMind, the London-based subsidiary of Alphabet, has created a system that can quickly master any game in the class that includes chess, Go, and Shogi, and do...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | December 7, 2018
Researchers have created robots that can adapt to their environment based on centralized sensory processing, environmental perception, and decision-making software...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 8, 2018
When you've got a hammer, everything looks like a nail, but the world starts to look more interesting if your hammer can change shape.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 31, 2018