A new system helps robots adapt to articulated objects like microwaves, drawers and cabinets
08/07/2025 Mallory Lindahl
Robots may one day work alongside us in our homes, helping with chores like unloading the dishwasher….
Category: Engineering
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Imagination Meets Automation With BrickGPT
07/24/2025 Marylee Williams
Fusing artificial intelligence and imagination, researchers from Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Computer Science have developed a tool that uses text…
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AI cracks a meteorite’s secret: A material that defies heat
Crystals and glasses have opposite heat-conduction properties, which play a pivotal role in a variety of technologies. These range from the miniaturization and efficiency of electronic devices to waste-heat recovery systems, as well as the…
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AI just found 5 powerful materials that could replace lithium batteries
Researchers from New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) have used artificial intelligence to tackle a critical problem facing the future of energy storage: finding affordable, sustainable alternatives to lithium-ion batteries.
In research…
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After 50 years, scientists finally catch elusive neutrinos near a reactor
Neutrinos are extremely elusive elementary particles. Day and night, 60 billion of them stream from the Sun through every square centimeter of the Earth every second, which is transparent to them. After the first theoretical prediction of their…
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Digital twins are reinventing clean energy — but there’s a catch
As the world grapples with the urgent need to reduce carbon emissions and combat climate change, researchers at the University of Sharjah are turning to a cutting-edge technology that could reshape the future of energy: AI-powered digital twins.
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Trapped by moon dust: The physics error that fooled NASA for years
When a multimillion-dollar extraterrestrial vehicle gets stuck in soft sand or gravel — as did the Mars rover Spirit in 2009 — Earth-based engineers take over like a virtual tow truck, issuing a series of commands that move its wheels or…
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Interview with Kate Candon: Leveraging explicit and implicit feedback in human-robot interactions
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. Kate Candon is a PhD student at Yale University…
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Google’s deepfake hunter sees what you can’t—even in videos without faces
In an era where manipulated videos can spread disinformation, bully people, and incite harm, UC Riverside researchers have created a powerful new system to expose these fakes.
Amit Roy-Chowdhury, a professor of electrical and computer…
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Robot, know thyself: New vision-based system teaches machines to understand their bodies | MIT News
In an office at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), a soft robotic hand carefully curls its fingers to grasp a small object. The intriguing part isn’t the mechanical design or…