A home robot trained to perform household tasks in a factory may fail to effectively scrub the sink or take out the trash when deployed in a user’s kitchen, since this new environment differs from its training space.
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Harvard Researchers Solve the Puzzle of Mars’ Ancient Rivers and Lakes
Did Mars have lakes and rivers during a single period or over separate periods? This is what a recent study published in Nature Geoscience hopes to address as an international team of researchers investigated…
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Yes, you can blame climate change for the LA wildfires
A wicked convergence of blustery wind and prolonged drought has prompted devastation in Southern California, as wildfires in Los Angeles have killed at least 28 people and destroyed more than 16,000 structures. According to a new…
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1,900-Year-Old Papyrus Reveals Criminal Case from Roman Empire
Written in Greek, this papyrus is a memorandum for a judicial hearing before a Roman official in the province of Judea or Arabia in the reign of the Roman emperor Hadrian, after his visit to the region in 129/130 CE and before the outbreak of…
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Scientists Investigate How Titan Keeps Its Dense Atmosphere Intact
Saturn’s largest moon, Titan, is the only moon in the solar system with a dense atmosphere which is comprised of thick hazes of 95 percent nitrogen (N2) and 5 percent methane (NH4) that require radar…
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Strategic corporate social responsibility can create social, economic value
Strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts that are directly related to a hospitality company’s core business operations and competencies can help companies create both social and business value, according to researchers in the Penn…
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Transformer Crisis: Deepak Divan Sounds the Alarm
I first became aware of the looming transformer crisis in 2022, when IEEE Spectrum contributing editor Robert N. Charette was reporting on the infrastructure improvements required to make the transition to electrical vehicles possible. Modern
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Dwarf Planet Ceres’ Organic Matter Was Originally Delivered by Impactors from Main Belt: Study
Ceres is the largest object in the main asteroid belt, and the only potential ocean world in the inner Solar System.
A global scan for organic-rich sites on Ceres using a deep neural network revealed two new sites close to the well-known…
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Physics – Quantum Learning Made Efficient
• Physics 18, s17
An algorithm allows the states of certain quantum systems to be determined from data more quickly than was previously possible.
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Learning the state of a…
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Expanding robot perception | MIT News
Robots have come a long way since the Roomba. Today, drones are starting to deliver door to door, self-driving cars are navigating some roads, robo-dogs are aiding first responders, and still more bots are doing backflips…
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