Aigen’s solar-powered autonomous robots aim to take the chemicals and toil out of industrial weeding. Oblivious to the punishing midday heat, a wheeled robot powered by the sun and infused…
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Chatbots are on the rise, but customers still trust human agents more
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Customers contact companies regularly to purchase products and services, inquire about orders, make payments and request returns. Until recently, the most common way for customers to…
Blurry Beginnings Shape Brain’s Visual Pathways
Summary: New research reveals how early-life blurry, low-color vision may help shape the brain’s visual pathways into specialized systems. Using computational models trained on low-quality images followed by high-quality ones,…
Police in Brazil arrest a suspect over $100M banking hack
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Police in Brazil arrested a suspect in connection with a cyberattack that diverted more than 540 million Brazilian reais (about $100 million) from the country’s banking…
Pilot program integrates AI-generated notes with human community notes on X platform
A research agenda for LLM-powered Community Notes. (1) Customized LLMs for note generation; (2) AI ‘co-pilots’ for human writers; (3) AI assistance for human raters; (4) Intelligent note ‘matching’ adapts…
Robotic probe quickly measures semiconductor properties to accelerate solar panel development
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists are striving to discover new semiconductor materials that could boost the efficiency of solar cells and other electronics. But the pace of innovation is bottlenecked…
Playing games with robots makes people see them as more humanlike
Cozmo, a small interactive robot with a vivid, expressive personality. Credit: University of East Anglia The more we interact with robots, the more human we perceive them to become—according to…
Open-source engine enables high-performance data processing for Internet of Things devices
Credit: CC0 Public Domain The Berlin Institute for the Foundations of Learning and Data (BIFOLD) announces the open-source release of NebulaStream, a next-generation stream processing engine built for the unique…
3D-printed magnetoelastic smart pen may help diagnose Parkinson’s
A schematic showing the structure of the smart pen used to capture handwriting signals for Parkinson’s diagnostics. Credit: Jun Chen Lab/UCLA Every year, tens of thousands of people with signs…
What to know about buying electric vehicles after the federal tax incentives end
Credit: Kindel Media from Pexels The massive tax and spending cut bill that Congress passed Thursday ends federal tax incentives for electric vehicles. Buyers have until Sept. 30 to qualify…
