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Researchers hope to develop robots to help patients dress and undress. How do we teach them skills that children must learn? | Stocksy/Amanda Worrall

Jan 15, 2021

Karen Liu: How robots perceive the physical world

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data Issue #109

Hardware and software innovations give eight chips the illusion that they’re one mega-chip working together to run AI. | Stocksy/Javier Pardina

Jan 11, 2021

New hybrid chips can run AI on battery-powered devices

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data Issue #110

Researchers trained the learning robot — the goalie — to block more than 90% of the shooter robot’s attempts. | Image courtesy of Dorsa Sadigh

Nov 20, 2020

To cooperate better, robots need to think about hidden agendas

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #106

Scholars were able to determine that Texas high school history books mostly focus on white men. | TONL

Nov 18, 2020

AI uncovers who gets attention in high school textbooks

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #107

Occupancy caps on reopened stores can lower the risks. | Unsplash/Lucas Santos

Nov 10, 2020

Researchers create a computer model to predict how COVID-19 spreads

Health, Technology & Society Issue #106

How can AI influence medicine and biology? | Stocksy/Sergio Marcos

Nov 3, 2020

Daphne Koller: How machine learning is transforming drug discovery

Artificial Intelligence, Health

Advances in robotic automation allow for more precise, intuitive movement. | Photo by Drew Kelly

Oct 28, 2020

Assistive Feeding: How AI can improve the control of robot arms

Transportation & Robotics Issue #104

An AI tool spotted 80% of fakes by noting when “visemes,” or mouth formations did not match “phonemes,” or phonetic sounds. | Image by Agrawala lab

Oct 21, 2020

AI can detect seemingly perfect deep-fake videos

Technology & Society Issue #105

In the end, says a legal scholar, all voters just want to know: Are our elections legitimate? | Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Oct 9, 2020

How to hold a secure election

Security, Technology & Society Issue #103

What will happen at the critical instant a rocket engine ignites? Stanford engineers will help answer that question. | Image courtesy of Javier Urzay

Oct 1, 2020

Interdisciplinary team develops ‘exascale’ computing for spaceflight

Technology & Society Issue #104

The complexity of bedside care | iStock/Jennifer Kosig

Sep 9, 2020

AI-controlled sensors could save lives in ‘smart’ hospitals and homes

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health Issue #101

A new interactive tool uses AI techniques to automatically measure who is on cable news and what they talk about. | Shutterstock/Conchi Martinez

Aug 27, 2020

A team of researchers launch an AI-powered TV news analyzer

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

“We’re in the middle of something really unusual here.” | Unsplash/visuals

Aug 20, 2020

John Mitchell and Maxwell Bigman: How can we improve online learning?

Technology & Society Issue #99

An AI-based robotics system could help predict and prevent falls. | Unsplash/Lindsay Henwood

Aug 10, 2020

Building a wearable that can catch you when you stumble

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society

Can an AI system help students learn open-ended tasks like coding? | Photo by Linda A. Cicero

Aug 10, 2020

How an AI-based “Super Teaching Assistant” could revolutionize learning

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Research shows advanced AI systems can learn linguistic principles on their own, similar to how human children learn languages. | iStock/z_wei

Aug 6, 2020

How AI systems use Mad Libs to teach themselves grammar

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society Issue #102

Could great storytelling help us meet our fitness goals? | Unsplash

Aug 6, 2020

A fitness app with a story to tell: Can narrative keep us moving?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

How can we train AI systems while using less energy? | Stocksy/Jetta Productions

Jul 10, 2020

AI’s carbon footprint problem

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Environment Issue #97

“Delivery drones are the future.” | iStock/krugli

Jun 30, 2020

Could drones deliver packages more efficiently by hopping on the bus?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics Issue #97

A technique called COSMOS captures movies of neural activity throughout the curved cerebral cortex of a mouse brain. | Image by Isaac Kauvar and Timothy Machado

Jun 5, 2020

Stanford researchers show how decisions light up the brain

Computation & Data, Health Issue #98

A way to reduce side effects in psychedelics, antihistamines, beta blockers, opioids and other drugs | Unsplash/Paweł Czerwiński and Drea Sullivan

May 27, 2020

What if we could design powerful drugs without unwanted side effects?

Computation & Data, Health Issue #98

A new algorithm pushes out only as much data as the viewer’s internet connection can receive without degrading quality. | Adobe Stock/PerlaStudio

Apr 17, 2020

Computer scientists create a ‘laboratory’ to improve streaming video

Computation & Data

Visit SocialDistancing.Stanford.edu to provide information about local shelter-in-place policies. | Stocksy/CACTUS Creative Studio

Apr 13, 2020

When can we ease social-distancing?

Computation & Data, Technology & Society Issue #93

The goal: finding the best method for charging an EV battery in 10 minutes that maximizes the battery’s overall lifetime. | Stocksy/Melanie Kintz

Feb 28, 2020

How we could supercharge battery development for electric vehicles

Artificial Intelligence, Energy, Environment Issue #89