Less is more: Efficient pruning for reducing AI memory and computational cost

Deep learning and AI systems have made great headway in recent years, especially in their capabilities of automating complex computational tasks such as image recognition, computer vision and natural language processing. Yet, these systems consist of billions of parameters and require great memory usage as well as expensive computational cost.

‘Optical neural engine’ can solve partial differential equations

Partial differential equations (PDEs) are a class of mathematical problems that represent the interplay of multiple variables, and therefore have predictive power when it comes to complex physical systems. Solving these equations is a perpetual challenge, however, and current computational techniques for doing so are time-consuming and expensive.

Robotic hand with unprecedented tactile sensitivity achieves human-like dexterity in real-world tasks

Researchers have unveiled a robotic hand, the F-TAC Hand, which integrates high-resolution tactile sensing across an unprecedented 70% of its surface area, allowing for human-like adaptive grasping. This pioneering development, published in Nature Machine Intelligence today, represents a significant leap forward in robotic intelligence and its ability to interact with dynamic real-world environments.