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AI can detect serious neurologic changes in babies in the NICU using video data alone

A team of clinicians, scientists, and engineers at Mount Sinai trained a deep learning pose-recognition algorithm on video feeds of infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) to accurately track their movements and identify key neurologic metrics. Findings from this new artificial intelligence (AI)-based tool, published November 11 in Lancet’s eClinicalMedicine, could lead to a minimally invasive, scalable method for continuous neurologic monitoring in NICUs, providing critical real-time insights into infant health that have

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A milestone in the study of octopus arms

Mechanical engineering PhD candidate Arman Tekinalp, fellow graduate student Seung Hyun Kim, Professor Prashant Mehta, and Associate Professor Mattia Gazzola, all from the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). Their interdisciplinary collaboration also included Assistant Professor Noel Naughton (formerly a Beckman fellow) from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Virginia Tech alongside researchers from the Department of Molecular

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Robot that watched surgery videos performs with skill of human doctor, researchers report

A robot, trained for the first time by watching videos of seasoned surgeons, executed the same surgical procedures as skillfully as the human doctors. The successful use of imitation learning to train surgical robots eliminates the need to program robots with each individual move required during a medical procedure and brings the field of robotic surgery closer to true autonomy, where robots could perform complex surgeries without human help. “It’s really magical to have this

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Where’s My Robot Butler?

Here’s how we could finally build humanoid robots that do all our domestic chores By Erico Guizzo & Randi Klett Published 11/11/2024 This is a non-interactive version of our story “Where’s My Robot?” — it includes all text, images, and videos (note that videos have no audio). This story is part of IEEE Spectrum’s “Reinventing Invention” special issue. See the interactive version on our site by using a browser with JavaScript enabled → A new generation

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This Mobile 3D Printer Can Print Directly on Your Floor

3 min read Kohava Mendelsohn is an editorial intern at IEEE Spectrum. MobiPrint can 3D print structures directly onto a wide variety of surfaces. Waiting for each part of a 3D-printed project to finish, taking it out of the printer, and then installing it on location can be tedious for multi-part projects. What if there was a way for your printer to print its creation exactly where you needed it? That’s the promise of MobiPrint,

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Korea University Medicine shares single-port robotic thymectomy comparative results – The Robot Report

Listen to this article A graphical abstract of the research. | Source: Korea University Medicine A joint research team from the Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at the Korea University College of Medicine last week announced comparative results of single-port robotic thymectomy using a single-port robotic system.  The team compared and analyzed the perioperative outcomes of 110 cases of robotic thymectomy using the single-port robotic system and conventional video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) thymectomy from

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Machine Learning Might Mean Less Chip Testing

2 min read Samuel K. Moore is IEEE Spectrum’s semiconductor editor. AnnaStills/iStock Finished chips coming in from the foundry are subject to a battery of tests. For those destined for critical systems in cars, those tests are particularly extensive and can add 5 to 10 percent to the cost of a chip. But do you really need to do every single test? Engineers at NXP have developed a machine-learning algorithm that learns the patterns of

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DeepRoute.ai closes $100M Series C1 led by Great Wall Motor – The Robot Report

Listen to this article [embedded content] DeepRoute.ai announced a strategic Series C1 funding round raising $100 million, led by Chinese automotive manufacturer Great Wall Motor. The company said it plans to use the funding will enhance research and development in its DeepRoute IO “end-to-end” model. It also plans to scale collaborations with global automakers, explore future robotaxi business, and support the recruitment of more AI-native talent. “The strategic investment from the automaker is a significant

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Who let the robodogs out? Meet Swiss-Mile’s wheeled quadruped

In Episode 171 of The Robot Report Podcast, co-hosts Steve Crowe and Mike Oitzman examine the latest video from XPENG, showing the Iron humanoid robot operating on the floor of the company‘s automation manufacturing plant. [embedded content] Featured interview with Swiss-Mile In the featured interview this week, Oitzman and Eugene Demaitre interview Marko Bjelonic, co-founder and CEO of Swiss-Mile, discussing its quadruped robot that combines wheels and legs for enhanced mobility. They explore the evolution

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How Agility Robotics crosses the Sim2Real gap with NVIDIA Isaac Lab – The Robot Report

When you encounter a Sim2Real gap like this, there are two options. The easy option is to introduce a new reward, telling the robot not to do whatever bad thing it is doing. But the problem is that these rewards are a bit like duct tape on the robot — inelegant, missing the root causes. They pile up, and they cloud the original objective of the policy with many other terms. It leads to a

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