Voice control is everywhere these days, but to hear people effectively from every direction, devices like the Echo must have a whole collection of microphones in them — but they take up space, require extra processing power and restrict ind...
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Researchers from MIT CSAIL are using artificial intelligence to translate how people feel when they talk. The post MIT Made a Wearable That Knows How a Conversation's Going appeared first on WIRED.
MIT Made a Wearable That Knows How a Conversation’s Going
Researchers from MIT CSAIL are using artificial intelligence to translate how people feel when they talk. The post MIT Made a Wearable That Knows How a Conversation's Going appeared first on WIRED.
MIT Made a Wearable That Knows How a Conversation’s Going
Swiss researchers have given a literal twist to the proverbial ticker, designing a clock-like device that could help power pacemakers by harvesting energy from the heart itself — just like an automatic watch harvests movement from the motion of the wrist. Read MoreThis Swiss watch would power, and be powered by, a ...
For years we’ve been skeptical, and rightly so, of the “art filters” you can put on your photos, webcam videos, and so on. But Google may have made them relevant again — or at the very least interesting — by letting you mix and match them in real time using a single specialized neural network. Read MoreDeep learning tool lets you pick your pastiche: Mostly Monet, ...
Generating speech from a piece of text is a common and important task undertaken by computers, but it’s pretty rare that the result could be mistaken for ordinary speech. A new technique from researchers at Alphabet’s DeepMind takes a completely different approach, producing speech and even music that sounds eerily like the real thing. Read MoreGoogle’s WaveNet uses neural nets to generate eerily convincing speech ...
If we’re ever to have things like smart contact lenses and permanent brain implants, one of the things we need to figure out is the power problem. Those devices need energy for collecting, processing and especially transmitting data — but that last one might not be a problem anymore, thanks to a new technique called interscatter communication. Read MoreDevices could recycle radio waves instead of transmitting them with ...
A Master’s Thesis by CMU’s Simon Kalouche posits a new form of robotic leg, one designed for maximum range of motion and, more importantly, an easily control method for force reduction. In other words, this is the kind of leg you want on your robot when you send it to Mars. GOAT stands for Gearless Omni-directional Acceleration-vectoring Topology and uses a single motor and… Read MoreGOAT legs will let future robots handle rough terrain with ...
To say there are a lot of molecules out there is kind of an understatement. So searching for one or two in particular is like looking for a needle in a galaxy-spanning haystack. Fortunately, the science of machine learning and the irrepressible n...
Machine learning and “molecular Tinder” may change the game for ...
The mad roboticists at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne have produced another biomimetic mechanoid — this one based on the lithe locomotion of the salamander. “Pleurobot” imitates the amphibian’s ambulation with its own articulated vertebrae, allowing it to slither along on land or at sea. Read More