Practise makes perfect – it is an adage that has helped humans become highly dexterous, and now it is an approach that is being applied to robots. Computer scientists at the University are... Read more
Computer scientists at The University of Texas at Austin have taught an artificial intelligence agent how to do something that usually only humans can do—take a few quick glimpses around and... Read more
Blue looks a little bit like a child’s drawing of a robot: its made from bulky, 3D-printed parts, and it has a pair of humanoid robot arms with pincers for hands. It can be controlled... Read more
Is it a computer program or a living being? At TU Wien (Vienna), the boundaries become blurred. The neural system of a nematode was translated into computer code – and then the virtual worm... Read more