Researchers are developing an "artificial robot nervous system to teach robots how to feel pain" and quickly react in order to avoid potential damage. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 25, 2016
The Watch-bot robot can independently learn a user's household activity patterns to provide helpful reminders. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 24, 2016
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology are developing control algorithms that enable small-scale autonomous cars to race around dirt tracks at high...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 23, 2016
Despite changes to the law, the U.S. National Security Agency can still request metadata from tens of thousands of private phones if they are indirectly connected...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | May 17, 2016
The HoloFlex is a flexible smartphone with a holographic lightfield display that can simultaneously project glasses-free three-dimensional images to multiple users...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | May 11, 2016
Swiss researchers have developed a graphene filter for microchips that could lead to wireless transmission rates 10 times as fast as what chips deliver today. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | April 12, 2016
Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's GRASP Laboratory have designed a robot called Picobug that can fly and walk, and soon will be able to grab things...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 31, 2016
Linux kernel creator Linus Torvalds reflects in an interview on what the past wrought and what the future holds for Linux. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 30, 2016
A robot developed at Stanford University is the first to combine flying, perching with passive attachment technology, and climbing. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | March 23, 2016
A cognitive psychology experiment has revealed differences in how humans and computers see images, says Weizmann Institute of Science professor Shimon Ullman. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 22, 2016
The late computer science pioneer and ACM A.M. Turing Award recipient Marvin Minsky left behind a wealth of ideas.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 19, 2016
A recent study found the adoption of social robots into people's lives is complicated by humans' tendency to view human-like robots as a threat to their identity...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 10, 2016
Sean Andrist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison has developed algorithms to help robots look at people at the right times and in the right ways. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | February 4, 2016
A recurrent neural network developed at the University of California, San Diego can mine patterns in reviews and write its own contextually relevant reviews. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 28, 2016
University of Illinois researchers have developed flexible sensors that can operate accurately inside the human body for at least five days before dissolving. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | January 20, 2016
In a recent contest, three Artificial Intelligence programs played against a Russian player in StarCraft: Brood War.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | December 9, 2015
Researchers at Iran's University of Tehran have unveiled a humanoid robot that can walk, mimic a person's arm gestures, and stand on one foot while bending backwards...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 20, 2015
A joint research project has yielded an interactive design system that enables hobbyists to create custom walking robots that can be printed in three dimensions...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 16, 2015
When Earth's rotation gets far enough out of sync with the drumbeat of atomic time, a leap second is added to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the world’s clocks...IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | October 29, 2015