Moravec‘s Paradox

Doctors Phan and Godoy in the operating room. Credit: UC Davis UC Davis Health physicians have performed the first single-anesthesia diagnosis to treatment of lung cancer using a fully robotic approach in the UC Health System. The procedure, known as robotic-assisted bronchoscopy, allows for the diagnosis and removal of a…

While InSight’s pair of solar panels, each one shaped like a decagonal (10-sided) pie, efficiently provide solar power to the lander, dust has always been its Achilles’ heel. While dust storms come by frequently—though not as intensely as portrayed in The Martian—they emerge more often during the summer, says Raymond…

Arne Andres is director of Click & Push Accessibility Inc., a company which has developed an advanced mobile app called The Atlas, designed to enable members of the public to identify and classify barriers and locate them on an interactive map so that they can be accessed using a cellphone…

Chalk Dust It’s probably a little early to be declaring it a glorious mid-summer, but that hasn’t stopped the retro funsters at Hamster from donning the visors and shades for this week’s Arcade Archives release, Pro Tennis: World Court. Now available to download on PS4 and Nintendo Switch. Released to…

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OpenBots Challenge Robotic Process Automation industry Securing an Additional $15million in Funding Press Release - May 13, 2022 15:00 EDT EDISON, N.J., May 13, 2022 (Newswire.com) - OpenBots, the enterprise RPA+ platform with its innovative zero-bot-license model, announced today that it raised an additional $15 million in growth capital. This…

Microsoft Bing will no longer accept XML sitemaps that were submitted anonymously through HTTP requests, Fabrice Canel from Microsoft Bing announced today. The reason Bing will no longer allow anonymous sitemap submission is due to abuse by search spammers. How anonymous sitemap submission worked. Microsoft explained that since the inception…

It’s a Wild West out there for artificial intelligence. AI applications are increasingly used to make important decisions about humans’ lives with little to no oversight or accountability. This can have devastating consequences: wrongful arrests, incorrect grades for students, and even financial ruin. Women, marginalized groups, and people of color…

Enhancing AI Diagnosis This is The Discovery Files, from the U.S. National Science Foundation. The wide range of applications for artificial intelligence alone are impressive. When you pair up humans and AI, it could mean earlier and more accurate cancer detection. Funded in part by NSF, researchers at New York…

Self-driving truck developers are promising they'll launch commercial service as soon as next year. One of the key remaining engineering hurdles involves safely coaxing these 80,000-pound robots to the side of the road when things don't go according to plan. As driverless-deployment timelines draw nearer, many of the leading companies…