Moravec‘s Paradox

Joint media release Sen the Hon Amanda StokerThe Morrison Government has awarded a $3.3 million contract to a Brisbane robotics and AI company to develop an unmanned combat vehicle the likes of which has never been made in Australia. Minister for Defence Industry Melissa Price welcomed the investment in Cyborg…

RNA is a single-stranded molecule composed of nucleobases. It's more prone to mutations than DNA, in which nucleobases pair up to create a double-stranded molecule. Gunilla Elam/Science Source The fields of NLP (also known as computational linguistics) and computational biology may seem very different, but mathematically speaking, they're quite similar.…

Scientists have worked out how to best get DNA to communicate with membranes in our body, paving the way for the creation of 'mini biological computers' in droplets that have potential uses in biosensing and mRNA vaccines. UNSW's Dr Matthew Baker and the University of Sydney's Dr Shelley Wickham co-led…

Teresa Carey: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I'm Teresa Carey. Every morning at five o’clock, composer Walter Werzowa would sit down at his computer to anticipate a particular daily e-mail. It came from six time zones away, where a team had been working all night (or day, rather) to…

A look back at the decades since that meeting shows how often AI researchers' hopes have been crushed—and how little those setbacks have deterred them. Today, even as AI is revolutionizing industries and threatening to upend the global labor market, many experts are wondering if today's AI is reaching its…

RNA is a single-stranded molecule composed of nucleobases. It's more prone to mutations than DNA, in which nucleobases pair up to create a double-stranded molecule. Gunilla Elam/Science Source The fields of NLP (also known as computational linguistics) and computational biology may seem very different, but mathematically speaking, they're quite similar.…

Loading... The first horror movie written entirely by bots is available on Netflix. — AFP pic NEW YORK, Oct 14 — Netflix has undertaken a rather unusual experiment: it asked bots, ie, a form of artificial intelligence, to write a script for a horror movie. And the result is quite…

by Jeff Foust — October 13, 2021 The Australian rover will be part of a NASA commercial lunar lander mission no earlier than 2026, providing regolith for a resource extraction experiment. Credit: NASA HUNTSVILLE, Ala. — NASA and its Australian counterpart have agreed to cooperate on a future robotic lander…

Some three students of the Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba Akoko(AAUA) have achieved a significant feat in the world of robotics as they have built a robotic dog.The students are of the Physics and Electronics Departments of the University and they came together to share ideas on how best they can…

Just because Apple refuses to make the switch to USB-C on its phones doesn’t mean all users are left despaired. Enter Ken Pillonel - a Master’s degree student of robotics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) who single-handedly converted a regular Lightning-equipped iPhone X into the first Apple…