Moravec‘s Paradox

The state of artificial intelligence is promising, and it is increasingly ready for real-life enterprises. But there are shortages of talent, lack of diversity in the field, and concerns about the handling the data that fuels ever-more-sophisticated algorithms.  Photo: Joe McKendrick These are some of the observations of Nathan Benaich…

The way the inspections are done has changed little as well. Historically, checking the condition of electrical infrastructure has been the responsibility of men walking the line. When they're lucky and there's an access road, line workers use bucket trucks. But when electrical structures are in a backyard easement, on…

For many years, Jaleh Bisharat says her only outlet for natural beauty products was Whole Foods and farmers markets. Now she almost has too many options for products and outlets. The clean beauty industry, which favors products free of potentially harmful chemicals that can be found in mass-market cosmetics and skin care products, has…

Researchers from the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) have developed a shape-shifting material that can take and hold any possible shape, paving the way for a new type of multifunctional material that could be used in a range of applications, from robotics and biotechnology…

Image via Nintendo Ever since Super Metroid, Samus Aran’s games have been a prevalent part of the speedrunning community, and Dread is no exception. The newest game has a few baked-in tricks you can use to skip large portions of the game, and the first one comes right at the…

A Chatbot with a goal to Transform Misconceptions about Islam, As a virtual friend, is listen without making any judgment or getting bored of your questions. Adam A.I. stands up to its uniqueness as the empathetic conversational bot distinctive from others, symbolizing the first human being, thanks to Generative Pre-trained…

Quantized ColumnsBy Robbert DijkgraafOctober 20, 2021 Today’s powerful but little-understood artificial intelligence breakthroughs echo past examples of unexpected scientific progress. Maggie Chiang for Quanta Magazine Is artificial intelligence the new alchemy? That is, are the powerful algorithms that control so much of our lives — from internet searches to social…

This is a season absolutely spoiled for mecha series, which makes this entire cour a unicorn in the modern landscape. While the discourse around the “death” of the subgenre itself is tiresome and myopic, it's undeniable that the options for cool robot fighting have been pretty limited in the last…

A team of U.S. researchers has developed a reconfigurable swarm of identical low-cost four-legged robots — with directionally flexible legs and tail — that can be linked on demand and autonomously. Ozkan-Aydin & Goldman showed through a series of experiments that a swarm of chainable legged robots is capable of…

From new Artificial Intelligence-enabled software to track movements of Chinese patrols to integrating a range of ground and air-based sensors that look deep across the Line of Actual Control, the Army is stepping up surveillance capabilities in the Eastern Sector in the face of an increasingly aggressive PLA. As part…