Moravec‘s Paradox

(Source: PeroPure) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio Chinese health technology firm PeroPure has successively completed Pre-A and Pre-A+ rounds of financing, with investment from DCM and ZhenFund, respectively. The two rounds have raised a total of nearly $10 million in new funds, to be allocated for the iteration of…

The use of a robotic-assisted device to perform transcranial Doppler ultrasound greatly improved the detection of right-to-left cardiac shunts in patients with presumed embolic strokes compared with the current standard of care — transthoracic echocardiography, in a new study. In the study, the robotic-assisted TCD device detected three times as…

It may be counterintuitive. But some argue that the key to training AI systems that must work in messy real-world environments, such as self-driving cars and warehouse robots, is not, in fact, real-world data. Instead, some say, synthetic data is what will unlock the true potential of AI. Synthetic data…

By MALLIKA SEN February 17, 2022 GMT BEIJING (AP) — A figure skater framed only by ragged ice gazes up, almost beseechingly. A goaltender sprawls inside a net, defeat written all over his limbs, even with his face obscured. These Renaissance painting-like images capture the barrage of emotions evoked during…

For the first time, artificial intelligence has been used to control the super-hot plasma inside a fusion reactor, offering a new way to increase stability and efficiency Technology 16 February 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Plasma inside the TCV fusion reactor in Switzerland Curdin Wüthrich/SPC/EPFL Fusion reactors promise cheap, abundant and…

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A robot with appendages that mimic the swimming legs of krill could one day be used to study these key marine food sources or explore hard-to-reach places Technology 15 February 2022 By Alex Wilkins The RoboKrill robot has appendages (right) that move like krill’s swimming legs through water Santos et…

Prostock-studio/Shutterstock Research lab OpenAI's top scientist has made a controversial claim, one that could upend the artificial intelligence (AI) market and already has other scientists up in arms, according to Futurism. Ilya Sutskever has claimed the largest neural networks may already be developing consciousness. OpenAI was founded in December 2015.…

In the swim — The right arrangement of heart muscle powers the fish without any controller. John Timmer - Feb 14, 2022 10:58 pm UTC Lee et al. Most muscles in our bodies only act in response to incoming nerve signals, which have to trigger each individual muscle cell to…

A breakthrough technique which will help restore the “feel” to robotic surgery, improving outcomes for cancer patients, has won a grant worth more than £1 million. Researchers from the National Robotarium in Edinburgh are developing a method to help work out how much of a patient’s tissue is affected by…