Month: June 2017

Scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab have already developed an application where a person can guide robot with their brainwaves.  For now though, the MIT technology is limited to simple binary activities such as guiding a robot deciding between two choices. With the goal of complex human-robot interaction is the next major frontier for robotic research,  it appears that Carnegie Mellon University’s  latest research led by Marcel Just, builds on the pioneering use of machine learning algorithms with brain imaging technology to “mind read.”  The study offers new proof that the neural dimensions of concept representation are...

18 years after the original breakthrough, a team of engineers have a universal algorithm for folding origami shapes that guarantees a minimum number of seams.  In a 1999 paper, Erik Demaine, then an 18-year-old PhD student at the University of Waterloo, in Canada, described an algorithm that could determine how to fold a piece of paper into any conceivable 3-D shape.  It was a milestone paper in the field of computational origami, but the algorithm wasn’t  very inefficient. Oragami Algorithm Perfected Dr Demaine, now an MIT professor of electrical engineering and computer science, teamed up with Tomohiro Tachi of the University...