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Robo-dog Sets New Guinness World Record

HOUND, a novel four-legged robotic dog, recently set a new Guiness World Record for the fastest 100-meter dash by a quadruped robot. Designed by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s (KAIST) Dynamic Robot Control and Design Laboratory, HOUND ran…

AI Avatars Replace Human Anchors in News Channel

Channel 1, a news channel with only Artificial Intelligence avatars as virtual anchors and reporters, will launch in February. A demo episode from the Channel was released on X (formerly Twitter) by the owners. In the released episode, a realistic…

Novel Mind-reading AI Converts Thoughts to Texts

For the first time, a research team at the GrapheneX-UTS Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) developed a non-invasive portal system which can decipher thoughts and convert them into text. This technology would be particularly…

New Tool Defends Against Deepfakes

The emergence of deepfakes -where synthesized speech can be used to mimic machine and human voices for malicious purposes- is a serious problem in the current world. The advances in generative artificial intelligence were geared towards improving personalized voice assistants.…

Drones With Defibrillators Save Cardiac Arrest Patients

Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet have been studying the concept of drones fitted with Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for emergency cardiac arrest patients, rather than sending only an ambulance. They discovered that in over 50% of the cases, the drones…

AI as a Tool for Constructing New Bridges and Buildings

Engineers are currently using artificial intelligence to develop lighter concrete blocks for construction in Pennsylvania where about 13% of the bridges have been declared structurally deficient. Artificial intelligence is also being used to develop a highway wall capable of absorbing…