As robotics researchers seek to develop more sophisticated and natural means for humans to interact with robots, they are also seeking to develop systems that will...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | November 23, 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
The swipe--without actually needing to touch a screen with a finger--will be the next dominant computer interface method, according to researchers in Germany. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | October 7, 2015
Typing six words per minute may not sound very impressive. But for paralyzed people typing via a brain-computer interface (BCI), it's a new world record.IEEE Spectrum From ACM News | September 30, 2015
A special session at the IEEE International Conference on Intelligence Transportation Systems dealt with intelligent pedestrian traffic and evacuation dynamics.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 21, 2015
The euRathlon 2015 Grand Challenge is designed to assess how well cooperative robot systems perform as part of a simulated emergency-response operation.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 18, 2015
Laser-ranging (lidar) systems that most self-driving cars use to detect obstacles can be hacked by a setup costing about $60.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 9, 2015
New technological developments are fomenting an explosion in the diversity and application of robotics.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | September 2, 2015
Two Ph.D. students are seeking to determine how soon artificial intelligence might exceed the capabilities of the human brain. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 31, 2015
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation collaborated with the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology to find a better way to search for matching tatoos...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 20, 2015
University College London researchers have developed a system that can sense people moving behind masonry walls 25 centimeters thick using only passive radiation...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 13, 2015
A team at Stanford University's Center for Design Research has developed the Real Road Autonomous Driving Simulation that fools human participants into thinking...IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 12, 2015
An experiment to see how mall patrons react to a social robot surprisingly found children were hostile toward the robot. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 7, 2015
As big data technologies advance and the challenges of extracting meaning from these data sets shift, computer scientists will need new vocabulary. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | August 3, 2015
Argonne National Laboratory researcher Stephen Wu has found it may be possible to generate spin current from insulators without a magnetic material.IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 31, 2015
ETH Zurich researchers sought to bypass some of the limitations of evolutionary robotics by training a "mother robot" to autonomously assemble children robots. IEEE Spectrum From ACM TechNews | July 22, 2015