Boxi shares their experiences working as a program specialist on the ethics & society team to support ethical, safe and beneficial AI development, highlighting the importance of interdisciplinary and sociotechnical thinking. Read More
Current AIs are very accurate but inflexible at image recognition. Exactly why this is remains a mystery. Researchers have developed a method called ‘Raw Zero-Shot’ to assess how neural networks handle elements unknown to them. The results have the potential…
In a step toward robots that can learn on the fly like humans do, a new approach expands training data sets for robots that work with soft objects like ropes and fabrics, or in cluttered environments. Read More
FuseBot is a new robotic system that fuses visual information and radio-frequency signals to efficiently find hidden items buried under a pile of objects, whether or not the targeted item has an RFID tag. Read More
Computer scientists develop a method that allows humans to help complex robots build efficient solutions to ‘see’ their environments and carry out tasks. Read More
Researchers studied the effect of the ‘attitudes’ of a semi-autonomous telepresence robot on its human operator. They found that when a person controlled only a part of the body of a semi-autonomous robot, its expressed opinions affected him or her.…
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Posted by Sara Beery, Student Researcher, and Jonathan Huang, Research Scientist, Google Research, Perception Team Over four billion people live in cities around the globe, and while most people interact daily with others — at the grocery store, on public…
Posted by Jarrod McClean, Staff Research Scientist, Google Quantum AI, and Hsin-Yuan Huang, Graduate Student, Caltech In efforts to learn about the quantum world, scientists face a big obstacle: their classical experience of the world. Whenever a quantum system is…
Engineers devised a recipe for improving any autonomous robotic system. Their optimization code can automatically identify how and where to tweak a system to improve a robot’s performance. Read More