JANE, Mo. — For the McDonald County School District — it’s being touted as a story of innovation, leadership and the future of education. What’s more — it involves robots. And — students doing the ...

In cellular automata, simple rules create elaborate structures. Now researchers can start with the structures and reverse-engineer the rules. Alexander Mordvintsev showed me two clumps of pixels on ...

While Tesla Inc. (NASDAQ:TSLA) has struggled in recent months to show demand for its electric vehicles around the world, CEO Elon Musk isn't worried, with a focus on other company segments to drive ...

Abstract: Distributed optimization provides a framework for deriving distributed algorithms for a variety of multi-robot problems. This tutorial constitutes the first part of a two-part series on ...

As temperatures rise this week, so do the concerns about wildfire risk. To help cut these risks, Congressman Sam Liccardo announced the Wildfire Resilience Partnership, a new initiative aimed at ...

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In a world where automation is advancing by leaps and bounds, collaboration between robots is no longer science fiction. Imagine a warehouse where dozens of machines transport goods without colliding, ...

Toronto-based Xaba is integrating its generative AI-powered software into automation. The startup promises scalable, flexible and cost-effective benefits that meet even stringent aerospace ...

Chris R. Reid receives funding from the Australian Research Council and Macquarie University. He is secretary of both the Australasian Society for the Study of Animal Behaviour, and the Australasian ...

The treatment of gastrointestinal and urinary system diseases has long been plagued by limitations of traditional drug delivery methods, such as low drug concentration at target sites, lack of ...

Certified kitchen knife nerd Scott Heimendinger used a robot arm on multiple chef’s knives to collect 100,000 data points about which blades cut most efficiently. He’s ranked them from best to worst.