A robot on a factory floor can carry parts, scan shelves, and move around people with growing skill. What it still struggles ...

Abstract: This article aims at presenting an introductory overview of the theoretical framework of control barrier functions (CBFs) and of their application to the design of safety-related controllers ...

Fish stranded on shore often look helpless, all flops and wriggles. But that clumsy scramble may follow a surprisingly ...

Since 2017, Iason Gabriel has worked at the tech giant, trying to anticipate – and think through – the impact of AI. But as commercial and geopolitical pressures escalate, can ethicists make any ...

A bicycle robot from the Robotics and AI Institute (RAI) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has become the first to perform an unassisted acrobatic front flip. RAI calls the bicycle robot an ultra-mobility ...

Abstract: Continuum robots have gained significant attention for endoluminal deployment due to their ability to operate in constrained environments. However, the complexity of many continuum robotic ...

While Build Canada may smugly note its AI MP “won’t knock on doors,” human MPs will. When they do, those representing the ...

After helping build some of the world's most widely used open AI datasets at Hugging Face, Guilherme Penedo and Hynek ...

Of the more than 624,000 highway bridges in the U.S., an estimated 220,000 need repairs. Quantum sensors could help engineers ...

Mark Pincus advocates gamification, journaling, rapid experimentation, and AI-assisted innovation for entrepreneurs.