In a preliminary study, researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology have found that they can program a robot to understand when it gains a human’s…
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology found that when robots move in a more human-like fashion, with one movement leading into the next, that…
But the fact that researchers in the various disciplines formulate the problems differently and use different scientific methods means that they often reach…
Monica W. Tracey, Ph.D., associate professor of instructional technology and administrative and organizational studies in WSU's College of Education and…
“The striking similarities in such catastrophes necessitates a broader perspective to better understand such failures,” said Venkat Venkatasubramanian, a…
It would seem that there are striking chronological parallels between significant variations of climate and major historical epochs, such as the Migration…
Or at least that’s not too far off from what University of Vermont roboticist Josh Bongard has discovered, as he reports in the January 10 online edition of…
Five UW-Madison professors, including two of the campus’s most-lauded ecologists, recently received a five-year, nearly $5 million grant from the NSF to study…
Devices that translate brain activity into the movement of a computer cursor or an external robotic arm have already proven successful in humans. But in these…
More than 170 participants gathered this week for the eighth annual National Academies Keck Futures Initiative (NAKFI) conference in Irvine, Calif. This year's…
Salvatore Torquato, a professor of chemistry, has shown that two abstract puzzles in geometry — known as the “covering” and “quantizer” problems — can be…
To help unravel the mysteries of human cognitive development and reach new the frontiers in robotics, University of Miami (UM) developmental psychologists and…
They call it a universal gripper, as it conforms to the object it's grabbing rather than being designed for particular objects, said Hod Lipson, Cornell…
Extreme events, such as floods or droughts, are caused by multiple factors – and must therefore be studied from many different perspectives. This is what…
The swan robot´s just over four-minute-long dance has so far been seen only by a select few. But it has already made a big impression. Tearful eyes and words…
The author, Claude Sammut, from the ARC Centre of Excellence for Autonomous Systems in Sydney, reviewed the technology demonstrated at the RoboCup…