Deep Neural Nets Can Now Recognize Your Face in Thermal Images
Matching an infrared image of a face to its visible light counterpart is a difficult task, but one that deep neural networks are now coming to grips with. One problem with infrared surveillance videos...
View ArticleOpen letter petitions UN to ban the development on weaponized AI
The Future of Life Institute has presented an open letter signed by over 1,000 robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) researchers urging the United Nations to impose a ban on the development of...
View ArticleResearch grasps how brain plans gripping motion
A new study significantly advances neuroscientists' understanding of how a region of the brain formulates plans for the hand to grip an object. The findings could lead to direct application to...
View ArticleNanoscale device emits light as bright as an object 10,000 times its size
Amplifying light a few hundred times with magnifying lenses is easy. Amplifying light by altering the resonant properties of light itself is a much more difficult proposition. However, if recent...
View ArticleESA expands virtual tour of the International Space Station
Just before ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti left the International Space Station after 199 days, she took up to 15 pictures inside each module. Now, the images have been stitched together to...
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World's first white lasers demonstrated
This schematic illustrates the novel nanosheet with three parallel segments created by the researchers, each supporting laser action in one of three elementary colors. The device is capable of lasing...
View Article#14 Avatar Technology Digest / Nanorobots, Soft robots for microsurgery,...
A very warm welcome to #14 Avatar Technology Digest. As always we bring you the latest news on Technology, Medical Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence from the most trusted sources. 1) Researchers...
View ArticleExploring The Brain: New Technology Produces Images Of Neural Connections At...
A new imaging tool allows scientists to generate images of the brain and its many neuronal connections at a previously unattainable nanoscale resolution. While the inventors’ immediate aim is to turn...
View ArticleNon-invasive spinal cord stimulation gets paralyzed legs moving voluntarily...
Five men with complete motor paralysis have regained the ability to move their legs voluntarily and produce step-like movements after being treated with a non-invasive form of spinal cord stimulation....
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A bionic hand in five days: how tech innovation is changing lives
In the UK, more than 11 million people live with a limiting long-term illness, impairment or disability, according to government statistics. More than one in four disabled people, meanwhile, say that...
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Could Artificial Intelligence Lose Its Mind?
The DeepDream algorithm Google made public this month is a strange offshoot of image recognition technology based on artificial intelligence. It can turn mundane images into hallucinatory worlds, and...
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What would the world look like to someone with a bionic eye?
The black and white images show visual distortions that might result from electric prostheses that enable vision by stimulating the retina. Credit: Ione Fine and Geoffrey Boynton / University of...
View ArticleArtificial blood vessels become resistant to thrombosis
Scientists from ITMO University developed artificial blood vessels that are not susceptible to blood clot formation. The achievement was made possible by a new generation of drug-containing coating...
View ArticleScientists grow human serotonin neurons in petri dish
Serotonin, a neurotransmitter involved in regulating mood and mental states, has been linked to numerous neurological and mental illnesses, including depression. But because there has been no way to...
View ArticleFly catcher robot to speed up insights into Alzheimer's
PALO ALTO, California - Stanford University researchers are using the most sophisticated fly catcher in the world with the potential to speed up the rate of scientific insight into diseases like...
View Article3D printed brain tissue could help fight brain disorders
The brain is amazingly complex, with around 86 billion nerve cells. The challenge for researchers to create bench-top brain tissue from which they can learn about how the brain functions, is an...
View ArticleDARPA is teaching artificial intelligence software to play jazz
Cinema of late has become littered with themes related to artificial intelligence, but arguably one of the most provocative moments from this genre comes in the movie Her when the intelligent OS begins...
View ArticleHow to Live to 100: Scientists Crack the Secrets of Centenarians
For the first time, a team of experts from Newcastle University’s Institute for Ageing and Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, explored which biological and pathological processes may be the...
View ArticleHERMES robot and operator can share life-saving moments (w/ video)
A robot's task performance can be tuned to work in dangerous disaster settings when controlled by a human master, in a project under the watchful eyes of an MIT team. Robot researchers from MIT's...
View ArticleThe brain is not as cramped as we thought
Using an innovative method, EPFL scientists show that the brain is not as compact as we have thought all along. To study the fine structure of the brain, including its connections between neurons, the...
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