Teaching a robot new skills used to require coding expertise. But a new generation of robots could potentially learn from just about anyone.
Engineers are designing robotic helpers that can “learn from demonstration.”…
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How an ancient marine predator snuck up on its prey
A past predator of the seas may have had a secret weapon: noise-cancelling flippers that helped it sneak up on prey.
Scientists analyzed a fossilized impression of a front flipper ascribed to the large marine reptile…
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Faster, Smarter, More Open: A New Way to Accelerate AI Models – Math & Computer Science | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Just as people from different countries speak different languages, AI models also create various internal “languages” – a unique set of tokens understood only by each model. Until recently, there was no way for models developed by different…
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Protein signatures may one day tell brain diseases apart before symptoms
A large-scale study of proteins in blood and cerebrospinal fluid could pave the way for improved blood tests to diagnose multiple brain diseases — and potential early warning signs of disease risk — researchers report July 15 in…
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Tackling the 3D Simulation League: an interview with Klaus Dorer and Stefan Glaser
A screenshot from the new simulator that will be trialled for a special challenge at RoboCup2025.
The annual RoboCup event, where teams gather from across the globe to take part in competitions…
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Meet Your Digital Twin – Math & Computer Science | Weizmann Wonder Wander
Before an important meeting or when a big decision needs to be made, we often mentally run through various scenarios before settling on the best course of action. But when it comes to our health – be it choosing a treatment for an ailment or…
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How fast did dinosaurs really go? Birds walking in mud provide new clues
Over a video call from a dig site near Oxford, England, Peter Falkingham points his phone down to show a fossilized footprint of what was probably a large sauropod.
Stepping inside the long-necked dinosaur print, which could fit both…
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This AI-powered lab runs itself—and discovers new materials 10x faster
Researchers have demonstrated a new technique that allows “self-driving laboratories” to collect at least 10 times more data than previous techniques at record speed. The advance – which is published in Nature Chemical Engineering – dramatically…
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Simulation-based pipeline tailors training data for dexterous robots | MIT News
When ChatGPT or Gemini give what seems to be an expert response to your burning questions, you may not realize how much information it relies on to give that reply. Like other popular generative artificial intelligence…
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Gut microbes may flush ‘forever chemicals’ from the body
Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes.
Some microbes found in the human gut can absorb some per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, researchers report July 1 in…
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