South China Morning PostAbout 2,100 artificial intelligence (AI) researchers from 29 European countries have announced a joint research alliance and are soliciting funding from the European Union (EU) to counter progress in such research in the U.S. and China. The Confederation of Laboratories for AI Research in Europe (CLAIRE) is calling on the European Commission to deploy an EU-wide AI strategy similar to U.S. and Chinese initiatives, to cultivate and retain AI talent by establishing […]

HPCwireResearchers at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) have developed the Supercomputer PACKage manager (Spack), an open source package manager optimized for high-performance computing (HPC). Spack is one of the most popular pieces of software the lab has ever released to the GitHub open source community, becoming the go-to package manager at LLNL, as well as at Argonne, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, and Sandia national laboratories. Spack also is being used at Lawrence Berkeley […]

YaleNewsYale University researchers have developed "Robotic Skins," allowing users to turn inanimate objects into robots. The skins are made from elastic sheets embedded with sensors and actuators. When these sheets are placed on a deformable object, the skins animate the object from its surface, allowing the makeshift robot to perform different tasks depending on the properties of the soft object and how the skins are applied. In addition, using more than one skin at a time allows for more […]

Kazan Federal University (Russia)Researchers at Russia's Kazan Federal University (KFU) and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology have developed recurrent neural networks using semantic vector word representation to match medical complaints such as "cannot fall asleep" or "a little giddy" in social networks with formal medical terms such as insomnia or vertigo. The researchers uploaded medical texts to the software platform to create a special vocabulary. The software used this data to […]

Technology ReviewNimbRo, a two-legged robot developed at the University of Bonn in Germany, won the soccer World Cup for adult-size robots this summer in Montreal, Canada. NimbRo is 135 centimeters tall and weighs almost 40 pounds. The robot's exoskeleton is made up of a few simple parts which are three-dimensionally (3D) printed from nylon. NimbRo is equipped with a vision system that performs object detection, robot localization, task planning, and actuator control. These functions give the […]