Tiny robots and AI algorithms could help to craft material solutions for cleaner environments by Mahshid Ahmadi, The Conversation Editors' notes Add as preferred source Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public ...

Evolution is a very slow process, due largely to the fact that nature doesn't "know" in advance which features of an animal will be beneficial. A new AI-based algorithm does know, however, allowing it ...

Plenty of companies have demoed home robots, but few, if any, have actually been released. The truth is that even the most advanced robots aren't very good at interacting with objects and environments ...

Robots are becoming increasingly capable and independent, yet one surprisingly simple issue continues to challenge engineers. Robots sometimes lose track of where they are. This situation is widely ...

Setting up a robotics lab in a US university is traditionally a battle against entropy. Administrators face a chaotic procurement process with arms from one vendor and vision systems from another. The ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose a problem to solve—akin to identifying a ...