On Fridays I post here my favorite stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find inspirational.
Researchers are using drones with ultrasonic detectors to study the airborne habits of bats:
Image: New Scientist
Amazon’s driverless tech team focuses not on building autonomy, but on how to use it:
Image: Amazon
An AI learned to play a video game from plain English instructions, not reinforcement learning:
Image: “Get the key!”, Atari
Caltech scientists have discovered the first 3D quantum liquid crystals:
Image: Didier Descouens – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0
UK startup Babylon Health is working to build technology to diagnose diseases without a doctor using AI:
Image: Babylon Health
Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk “flying car” had a successful test flight – and there’s video (of course):
Image: Kitty Hawk
Fetal lambs lived inside an artificial womb for weeks, a potential breakthrough for human preemies:
Image: Partridge E.A. et al. Nature Communications
Boston Dynamics has been using its robot dog Spot to deliver packages in Boston:
Image: Boston Dynamics
Brown researchers made a robot that knows when it’s confused and can ask for help:
Image: Brown University
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