We didn’t expect this approach to work as well as it did Computers can mimic the human ability to find visually similar images, such as photographs of a fountain in summer and i... Read more
Now you have an excuse to touch everything. Researchers from Carnegie Mellon University and Microsoft Research have created OmniTouch, a wearable system that turns walls, arms, hands, table... Read more
Although Honda’s ASIMO has been running around at speeds of up to 6 km/h (3.7 mph) since 2004, his style is more of a fast sneak than a true running action. Getting bipedal robot like... Read more
Do you remember those colored building blocks you would use to learn words and numbers, or just construct mighty castles to keep your enemies outside? Well, they’ve now received... Read more
Nancy Sinatra once mused that her boots were made for walking. In these days of global positioning, going walkabout is not as random an event as it might once have been, but there are still... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Give a computer a task that can be crisply defined — win at chess, predict the weather — and the machine bests humans nearly every time. Yet when problems are nuanced or... Read more
Wouldn’t it be great if driving in thick fog, pounding rain or blizzard snow wasn’t a visibility nightmare and road markings or important signage remained clear whatever the cond... Read more
IN an empty fluorescent-lighted hallway on the second floor of Smith Hall here at Carnegie Mellon University, Prof. Paul Rybski and a pair of graduate students showed off their most advanced... Read more