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This “robot bird” flies at 45 mph through forests—With no G…
Unlike birds, which navigate unknown environments with remarkable speed and agility, drones typically rely on external guidance or pre-mapped routes....
Guardrails, education urged to protect adolescent AI users
The effects of artificial intelligence on adolescents are nuanced and complex, according to a new report that calls on developers to prioritize featur...
Self-powered artificial synapse mimics human color vision
Despite advances in machine vision, processing visual data requires substantial computing resources and energy, limiting deployment in edge devices. N...
Engineers develop self-healing muscle for robots
Students recently unveiled their invention of a robotic actuator -- the 'muscle' that converts energy into a robot's physical movement -- that has the...
Horses 'mane' inspiration for new generation of social robo…
Interactive robots should not just be passive companions, but active partners -- like therapy horses who respond to human emotion -- say researchers.....
Mid-air transformation helps flying, rolling robot to trans…
Engineers have developed a real-life Transformer that has the 'brains' to morph in midair, allowing the drone-like robot to smoothly roll away and beg...
AI meets game theory: How language models perform in human-…
Large language models (LLMs) -- the advanced AI behind tools like ChatGPT -- are increasingly integrated into daily life, assisting with tasks such as...
Solitonic superfluorescence paves way for high-temperature …
A new study in Nature describes both the mechanism and the material conditions necessary for superfluorescence at high temperature....
Emotional responses crucial to attitudes about self-driving…
When it comes to public attitudes toward using self-driving cars, understanding how the vehicles work is important -- but so are less obvious characte...
AI is here to stay, let students embrace the technology, ex…
A new study says students appear to be using generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) responsibly, and as a way to speed up tasks, not just boost th...
Could AI understand emotions better than we do?
Is artificial intelligence (AI) capable of suggesting appropriate behavior in emotionally charged situations? A team put six generative AIs -- includi...
Scientists discover class of crystals with properties that …
By twisting atom-thin sheets of graphene in just the right way, Rutgers researchers created intercrystals, a new form of matter where geometry alone c...
MIT scientists develop tool that makes underwater scenes cr…
MIT and WHOI scientists have unveiled SeaSplat, a system that makes underwater scenes look as if the ocean had been drained away. The tool cancels out...
World's first petahertz-speed phototransistor in ambient co…
Researchers demonstrated a way to to manipulate electrons using pulses of light that last less than a trillionth of a second to record electrons bypas...