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The self-learning model identifies drug regimens that shrink tumors while minimizing side effects AlphaGo became the first household AI name by teaching itself to play the ancient Chinese game Go and then beating the world’s bestRead more

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for theRead more

A novel encryption method devised by MIT researchers secures data used in online neural networks, without dramatically slowing their runtimes. This approach holds promise for using cloud-based neural networks for medical-image analysis and other applicationsRead more

The inaugural volume of the Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems is now available online! The Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems highlights the theoretical and applied research in control andRead more

The Honda Research Institute gives an in-depth look at the design of their newest social robot prototype Social robots have had it tough recently. There are lots of reasons for this, but a big partRead more