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A New Class of AI Ethics
The ethics of artificial intelligence is increasingly part of school curricula. Will it lead to a better world?
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Engineers Develop Low-Cost, High-Accuracy System for Flexible Medical Robots
Roboticists developed a low-cost system to track the location of flexible surgical robots operating inside the human body.
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Comedy Club Performances Provide Insights on How Robots, Humans Connect via Humor
Two studies evaluated a robot comedian's performance at comedy clubs to gather data to enable more effective robot-human interplay through humor.
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Coding for Covid-19: Contest Calls on Developers to Help Fight the Pandemic
One track in this year's IBM Call for Code challenge focused on the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Algorithm Helps Analyze Images to Improve Health Care, Manufacturing
A new algorithm makes it easier for humans to recognize and analyze patterns that appear in both natural and manufactured systems.
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Using Crowdsourced Computing to Fight the Coronavirus
Folding@Home is more powerful than the world’s top seven supercomputers combined.
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Elderly Home Turns to Wearables for Contact Tracing, Sidestepping Apple-Google Limits
The Legacy at Town Square senior living facility in Amarillo, TX, recently accelerated contact tracing by having staffers and residents wear high-tech wristbands...
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This Robot Can Guess How You're Feeling by the Way You Walk
A new algorithm enables a small four-wheeled robot to perform real-time gait analysis in order to determine a walker's emotional state.
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Scientists Develop Tool to Improve Disease Model Accuracy
A new embedded discrepancy operator could help scientists deliver more accurate predictions of how diseases such as COVID-19 spread through populations around the...
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Laser Loop Couples Quantum Systems Over a Distance
Researchers have created strong coupling between quantum systems using a laser loop, enabling nearly lossless exchange of information and strong interaction between...
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Meet the Uninfectables
Hospital wards, grocery stores, and food delivery services are turning to robotic devices to better navigate the pandemic.
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Inside Big Tech’s High-stakes Race for Quantum Supremacy
Quantum computers used to be an impossible dream. Now, after a decade of research by some of the world's biggest tech companies, they're on the verge of changing...
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AI Technique Detects, Classifies Galaxies in Astronomy Image Data
A new artificial intelligence program can analyze image data to detect and classify galaxies and stars in large datasets from astronomical surveys.
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