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Augmented dexterity: How robots can enhance human surgical skills

These advances have the potential to allow augmented dexterity to make surgery safer, faster, and more reliable for patients worldwide.

November 30, 2024
Augmented dexterity: How robots can enhance human surgical skills
Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough: Revolutionary Gel Turns Sunlight Directly Into Clean Fuel

A new hydrogel developed by Japanese scientists uses sunlight to efficiently produce hydrogen from water, mimicking natural photosynthesis.

November 12, 2024
Artificial Photosynthesis Breakthrough: Revolutionary Gel Turns Sunlight Directly Into Clean Fuel
Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor

The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic surgery closer to true autonomy, where robots could perform complex surgeries without human help.

November 11, 2024
Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor
Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

AI assistance can significantly improve productivity and satisfaction…Because AI tools have an equalizing effect on performance, they may also promote equality in a famously unequal profession….law schools, lawyers, judges, and clients should affirmatively embrace AI tools and plan for a future in which they will become widespread.

November 9, 2024
Lawyering in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million

The portrait depicts the British mathematician Alan Turing as the god of artificial intelligence. Its creator is a robot named Ai-Da that resembles a woman with a bob haircut.

November 8, 2024
Painting by A.I.-Powered Robot Sells for $1.1 Million
AI-driven mobile robots team up to tackle chemical synthesis

…researchers show how mobile robots that use AI logic to make decisions were able to perform exploratory chemistry research tasks to the same level as humans, but much faster.

November 7, 2024
AI-driven mobile robots team up to tackle chemical synthesis
Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch

Rapid advances in applying artificial intelligence to simulations in physics and chemistry have some people questioning whether we will even need quantum computers at all.

November 7, 2024
Why AI could eat quantum computing’s lunch
Artificial intelligence 'spotted' my breast cancer

The 68-year-old's cancerous cells were almost undetectable and had not been spotted before they were found by AI.

November 7, 2024
Artificial intelligence 'spotted' my breast cancer
ChatGPT Can Now Control a Robot Arm

It's a clever demonstration of how AI language models…can be harnessed to do tasks that on the surface have little to do with language…It took the pair of roboticists only four days to teach the robot arms, which were given access only to a regular sponge, to identify a nearby spill.

November 6, 2024
ChatGPT Can Now Control a Robot Arm
Atlas is autonomously moving engine covers between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly.

The robot is able to detect and react to changes in the environment (e.g., moving fixtures) and action failures (e.g., failure to insert the cover, tripping, environment collisions [1:24]) using a combination of vision, force, and proprioceptive sensors.

October 30, 2024
Atlas is autonomously moving engine covers between supplier containers and a mobile sequencing dolly.