Category: AI/ML News

Behold, my new flying machine: this table attached to a bird.

Imagine you’re tasked with sending a team of football players onto a field to assess the condition of the grass (a likely task for them, of course). If you pick their positions randomly, they might cluster together in some areas while completely neglecting others. But if you give them a strategy, like spreading out uniformly …

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Nvidia has released NVLM 1.0, a powerful open-source AI model that rivals GPT-4 and Google’s systems, marking a major breakthrough in multimodal language models for vision and text tasks.Read More

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Miniature robots on the millimeter scale often lack the strength to transport instruments for endoscopic microsurgery through the body. Scientists are now combining several millimeter-sized TrainBots into one unit and equipping them with improved ‘feet’. For the first time, the team was able to perform an electric surgical procedure on a bile duct obstruction experimentally …

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Imaging microscopic samples requires capturing multiple, sequential measurements, then using computational algorithms to reconstruct a single, high-resolution image. This process can work well when the sample is static, but if it’s moving—as is common with live, biological specimens—the final image may be blurry or distorted.

Gov. Gavin Newsom’s veto of SB 1047 has been hailed by some industry veterans as good for open source innovation.Read More

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Engineers developed a system that helps robots quickly map a scene and identify items they need to complete a set of tasks.

Imagine having to straighten up a messy kitchen, starting with a counter littered with sauce packets. If your goal is to wipe the counter clean, you might sweep up the packets as a group. If, however, you wanted to first pick out the mustard packets before throwing the rest away, you would sort more discriminately, …

Read more “New method enables robots to map a scene, identify objects in order to complete a set of tasks”