AI, ML, Robots and Brains (31.8. - 6.9.2020)

Society

An embedded ethics approach for AI development

Human-centered redistricting automation in the age of AI

Create your own moody quarantine music with Google’s AI

Algorithms

Intelligent software tackles plant cell jigsaw puzzle

IBM announces AI based chemistry lab: RoboRXN

Finding magnetic eruptions in space with an AI assistant

Q&A: Physical scientists turn to deep learning to improve Earth systems modeling

Researchers study why neural networks are efficient in their predictions

This know-it-all AI learns by reading the entire web nonstop

Finding the ground state of spin Hamiltonians with reinforcement learning

Health

Predictive placentas: Using artificial intelligence to protect mothers' future pregnancies

Robots

ESA selects follow-up AI Earth observatory satellite mission

Kraken Robotics nets $3M to build new 'Thunderfish' autonomous underwater vehicle

Amazon's drone program was cleared by the FAA — take a look at the machines it wants to use to deliver Prime packages to your doorstep

Unmanned aerial vehicles help wheat breeders

Eye of a fly: Researchers reveal secrets of fly vision for rapid flight control

Miniature antenna enables robotic teaming in complex environments

Autonomous robot plays with NanoLEGO

Cars

A small number of self-organizing autonomous vehicles significantly increases traffic flow

Hardware

Nanoparticle-based computing architecture for nanoparticle neural networks

SUTD develops intelligent model simulator that maps complex phenomena of memristor memory

Brains

Repulsion mechanism between neurons governs fly brain structure

Reviewing research about the evolution of complex cognition in birds

New study shows birds can learn from others to be more daring

Scientists show how brain flexibility emerges in infants

Scans reveal how brain adapts to life in space

Keeping the beat: It's all in your brain: Researchers identify neural markers related to beat synchronization

Tel Aviv University study sheds light on brain mechanism activated by uncertainty

Why do you feel lonely? Neuroscience is starting to find answers.

New model explains when the brain becomes aware of information

Is consciousness continuous or discrete? Maybe it's both, argue researchers

Holistic bursting cells might be basis of brain cognition