The environment that the researchers used to run their simulation experiments. Credit: Dergachev, Muravyev and Yakovlev. As mobile robots become more advanced, they also become easier to deploy in a wide range of real-world settings. One of the factors that will enable their large-scale implementation is their ability to autonomously...

If the camera is comparable to the human eye in computer vision, the code is certainly the brain, according to Michael Felsberg. Behind the code, there is a lot of advanced mathematics. Credit: Thor Balkhed Achieving diversity in human vision is one of the major challenges for AI research. In...

Credit: DALL-E How would an artificial intelligence (AI) decide what to do? One common approach in AI research is called "reinforcement learning." Reinforcement learning gives the software a "reward" defined in some way, and lets the software figure out how to maximize the reward. This approach has produced some excellent...

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Electrification of public transport is widely seen as a promising way to save energy and reduce emissions. Electric buses generally have a low range and long charging time, which can lead to "range anxiety" among operators and drivers. Accurate energy consumption estimations of electric buses can...

Example frames of the experiment. The left frame shows the virtual agents looking up. The right frame shows the participant’s response. Credit: iScience (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2022.104891 An Aston University computer scientist has used artificial intelligence (AI) to show that we are not as individual as we may like to think....

Credit: Emad Ibrahim Edge computing is an architecture in which data and processing are placed as close as possible to end users. In cloud computing, in contrast, the computations happen in centralized data storage and processing units in which algorithms enjoy the luxury of complex computations. Edge computing decentralizes such...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain In the 2002 movie Minority Report (based on a short story by Philip K Dick), director Steven Spielberg imagined a future in which three psychics can "see" murders before they happen. Their clairvoyance allows Tom Cruise and his "Precrime" police force to avert nearly all potential...

Credit: IMDEA Networks Institute We are in a fascinating era where even low-resource devices, such as Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, can use deep learning algorithms to tackle complex problems such as image classification or natural language processing (the branch of artificial intelligence that deals with giving computers the ability...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 pandemic has been marked by ever-present fake news surrounding the behavior and effects of the coronavirus, the impact of social distancing, lockdowns, and quarantine, and the medical response in terms of vaccinations and pharmaceuticals. Indeed, even some world leaders led the public astray with...

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The Association for Computing Machinery's global Technology Policy Council (TPC) has released a new Statement on Principles for Responsible Algorithmic Systems authored jointly by its US (USTPC) and Europe Technology Policy Committees (Europe TPC). Recognizing that algorithmic systems are increasingly used by governments and companies to...