Researchers have demonstrated how to teach a PR2 robot to perform simple repairs on itself by tightening its own screws.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 12, 2019
Researchers have developed a hand-tracking system to determine how long it would take a driver to assume control of a self-driving car in an emergency.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2019
Researchers have developed a method of detecting malicious apps that sneak through Apple's App Store screening process and onto some users’ phones.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 2, 2019
Researchers in South Korea have developed a biometric system that uses a transducer to generate vibrations and sound waves that can be used to identify individuals...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 11, 2019
Researchers at Maimonides Medical Center found that medical drones carrying emergency supplies can reach 911 callers in New York City significantly faster than...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 6, 2019
Researchers have developed a teleoperation system that allows a two-legged robot to "borrow" a human operator's physical skills to move with greater agility.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 5, 2019
A National Aeronautics and Space Administration Astrobee robot is now up and running on the International Space Station (ISS).
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2019
Baylor University researchers have developed a free smartphone app that uses machine learning to flag eye disease from personal photos, as much as a year ahead...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2019
The U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne and Lawrence Livermore national laboratories will be among the first organizations to deploy artificial intelligence computers...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 26, 2019
The present state of software engineering education at universities does not meet the needs of technology-based software startups, according to a new study.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 28, 2019
Researchers are using deep internal learning, in which a machine learning algorithm ascertains the internal structure of a single image from scratch, to edit photos...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 15, 2019
A new method of tracking unfamiliar drones leverages consumer smartphones to detect the Wi-Fi signals of nearby drones.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | June 28, 2019
Georgia Institute of Technology researchers have developed an augmented reality interface to help disabled individuals control complex assistive robots.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 22, 2019
Security researchers from Tencent have demonstrated a way to use physical attacks to spoof Tesla's autopilot.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | April 4, 2019
A survey on the love/hate relationships between software engineers and coding languages found Google's Go language was the global leader.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 8, 2019
Researchers at Mitsubishi Electric have developed sensor-security technology for detecting inconsistencies in sensor measurements when a system is under attack....IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 1, 2019
The Zillow Prize competition pitted nearly 4,000 teams against one another in an effort to develop a computerized system that could predict the future sale price...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 6, 2019
Drones flying over the Galapagos island of North Seymour dropped rat poison in an effort to eliminate invasive black and brown rats.
IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2019
The Open Group information technology consortium has announced the establishment of a data scientist certification program to address the shortage of data scientists...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 1, 2019