AI, ML, Robots and Brains (26.4. - 2.5.2021)

Society

Deepfake satellite images pose serious military and political challenges

NYPD stops using Boston Dynamics' robodog following backlash

The EU's proposed AI laws would regulate robot surgeons but not the military

Algorithms

Sounds familiar: A speaker identity-controllable framework for machine speech translation

Computer vision inches toward 'common sense' with Facebook's latest research

Computer vision in AI: The data needed to succeed

Using AI to gauge the emotional state of cows and pigs

Neural nets used to rethink material design

Toward new solar cells with active learning

Machine learning algorithm helps unravel the physics underlying quantum systems

Health

Innovative rapid COVID-19 test platform pairs mass spectrometry with machine learning

New machine learning-based tool to help physicians determine best test for chest pain

Researchers use AI to detect wrist fractures

Personalizing cancer treatment through machine learning

The robot surgeon will see you now

Robots

Israel developing AI 'super-brain' to run automated attacks in battlefield

Army technique enhances robot battlefield operations

Product features of robotic lawn mowers determine danger to hedgehogs

Successful deployment of autonomous lander to deepest part of global ocean

Counting flying foxes by using drones equipped with thermal cameras

Wingcopter debuts a triple-drop drone to create 'logistical highways in the sky'

Exyn Technologies' drones achieve autonomy milestone with on-board mapping

Future drones likely to resemble 300-million-year-old flying machine

New law of physics helps humans and robots grasp the friction of touch

How to level up soft robotics

DNA-inspired 'supercoiling' fibers could make powerful artificial muscles for robots

Smart dielectric elastomers for self-healing soft robots

Helping robots analyze their surroundings

Cognitive neuroscience could pave the way for emotionally intelligent robots

Cars

Luminar will bring its LiDAR tech to Airbus planes and helicopters

UK says basic self-driving cars could be allowed by the end of 2021

Hardware

New brain-like computing device simulates human learning

Brains

Transparent fish without a skull roof becomes a model organism for neurophysiology

Do fish feel pain? Research team says it's likely

Mammals evolved big brains after big disasters

‘Big-brained’ mammals may just have small bodies, study suggests

Brain development is surprisingly similar between humans and other primates

Can a newborn's brain discriminate speech sounds?

How the brain encodes social network structure

A new theory for what's happening in the brain when something looks familiar

How does the brain flexibly process complex information?

Study identifies diverse spectrum of neurons that govern movement

Ultra-high field MRI detects differences in brain's 'hippocampus'

Navigating the squircle: Hippocampal maps predict context-dependent behavior

Study examines experience-dependent contextual codes in the hippocampus

Subtle differences in structure and function of the hippocampus in people with Down syndrome

Anesthesia doesn't simply turn off the brain, it changes its rhythms