Machine learning is capable of doing all sorts of things as long as you have the data to teach it how. That’s not always easy, and researchers are always looking for a way to add a bit of “common ...

This improved motion and touch sensing would allow SCI patients to regain autonomy and ownership over their paralyzed limbs and more easily control them while completing tasks in their everyday lives.

The complexity, and importance, of our sense of touch is huge. Just think about reaching out for a piece of fruit on the table – you need touch to know when your fingers have reached, you need to ...

A new haptic interface based on magnetic levitation to give computer users a feel for what's on the screen. They can perceive textures, feel hard contacts, and sense the heft of a heavy block as they ...

Some of the first pieces of common sense a computer ever learned, like the fact that helicopters are found on airfields and babies have eyes, are now available for the public to see online. Nobody had ...

Neuroscientists have developed a computer model that can simulate the response of nerves in the hand to any pattern of touch stimulation on the skin. The tool reconstructs the response of more than 12 ...

The system at Carnegie Mellon University is called NEIL, short for Never Ending Image Learning. In mid-July, it began searching the Internet for images 24/7 and, in tiny steps, is deciding for itself ...

Computers at Carnegie Mellon University are running a program that analyses images in a bid to learn common sense A computer program is trying to learn common sense by analysing images 24 hours a day.

The device advances medicine toward a future that might see tiny robots sent into the body to rewire damaged nerves, deliver ...

Tradeoffs of price vs. performance as well as computing capability influence the decision of whether to purchase a new or refurbished computer. What’s involved in refurbishing a computer? Limitations ...