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Clever little cubes automate robotic craft projects for kids

Affectiva’s Rana El-Kaliouby says our devices need to get a lot more emotionally intelligent

At the intersection of two challenging computational and technological problems may lie the key to better understanding and manipulating quantum randomness

When teams of humans row boats, they all sync up, but robots are testing whether that's really the fastest way to go

Researchers have now demonstrated that a single layer of a 2D material can exhibit an intrinsic magnetism all on its own

Instant photo sharing celebrates its 20th birthday today, proving that building a prototype when your wife is in labor is sometimes a good idea

The human neocortex learns and recognizes new songs with amazing efficiency. See how it works

Researchers publish taxonomy of trolls, sybils, and other online troublemakers

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos

This octocopter uses hybrid gasoline-electric propulsion to fly two people 110 miles on a single tank.

The Pied Piper of Silicon Valley's fictional quest to reinvent the Internet trails MaidSafe's and the University of Michigan's progress

The Japanese telecom giant picks up two of the most talented and innovative robotics companies in the world

Georgia Tech's Miniature Autonomous Blimp can recognize and follow humans, and it's gentle enough to fly in your home

If machine learning systems can be taught using simulated data from Grand Theft Auto V instead of data annotated by humans, we could get to reliable vehicle autonomy much faster

DeepMind's training data set of 300,000 YouTube clips finds AI struggles to recognize actions such as eating doughnuts or face-planting

Senate Bill 2658 sheds light on how at least some people wanted to regulate drones

A machine-learning algorithm picked up differences in brain connections in kids as young as six months old

A laser-based light source that earned its inventors the 2005 Nobel Prize in physics could prevent future bottlenecks on vital fiber-optic Internet links.

With the ability to both increase and decrease the capacitance of magnetic tunneling junctions, spintronics will never be the same

With a solid-fuel rocket and internal gyro stabilizer, this little robot can make a highly targeted long-distance leap

Graphene sheets could replace gallium arsenide and aluminum gallium arsenide in quantum Hall effect ohm standard

Nannycams? So yesterday. Startup Lighthouse's computer vision and AI will tell you everything you miss when you’re not home

Reading out 100 words per minute from the brain? Yes, Facebook knows it's ambitious

Adversarial grasping helps robots learn better ways of picking up and holding onto objects

IBM says their stacked nanosheet transistors will give circuit designers more flexibility

AI experts hunt for the secrets of intelligence in 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue

The best robot videos of the week, ICRA edition

Neuroscience will give us what we’ve sought for decades: computers that think like we do

Detecting and modifying the spins of electrons on a 2-D material's surface could enable quantum computing and data storage

Why the merger of the Raspberry Pi and CoderDojo foundations makes sense—and why it doesn’t

Leaders of major tech companies say they have good reason to stay the course—even if the federal government won't

Machines won’t become intelligent unless they incorporate certain features of the human brain. Here are three of them

The Japanese company believes it has created speech separation technology good enough to solve the cocktail party problem

Large-scale brainlike systems are possible with existing technology—if we’re willing to spend the money

With a clever mechanism that allows it to efficiently take off and land on water, this drone could use solar charging to travel around lakes all summer

Advances in one technology help the other, too

MIT scientists selectively excite neurons deep in the brain without implanting electrodes

Afghan Wireless has overcome many challenges in its efforts to bring wireless service to the country

Running algorithms that mimic a rat’s navigation neurons, heavy machines will soon plumb Australia’s underground mines

A live dragonfly with a cybernetic backpack and optical implants is now airborne

The increasing complexity of gadgets baffles even their designers, but we are not all doomed

Ray Kurzweil, Rodney Brooks, and others weigh in on the future of artificial intelligence

Massive efforts to better understand the human brain will deliver on the original promise of computer science: machines that think like us

Newly flexible and transparent nanogenerators could enable artificial skin and soft robots

Relax and watch this robot arm carefully stack rocks one on top of another

It’s time for a new breed of engineer, former Stanford dean tells IEEE leaders and honorees at first IEEE Summit

These origami-inspired robotic structures are complex, soft, and easy to make

After 3 months, 75 percent of subjects saw improvement; the number continued to climb months later

Reverse engineering 1 cubic millimeter of brain tissue could lead to better artificial neural networks