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Artificial Intelligence

On a busy freeway, how does a self-driving car make the right decision? | iStock/Art Wager

Sep 27, 2019

Marco Pavone: Autonomous cars will have to manage unpredictable road behavior

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

Modern robotic technologies could help people with artificial limbs walk with less effort, more quickly and with better balance. | iStock/JohnnyGreig

Sep 23, 2019

Steven H. Collins: New prosthetics should be better than the real thing

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Materials

The freedom we have in designing technology requires more intentional decisions about how we want to interact with it. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jul 15, 2019

James Landay: What’s next in human-computer interaction?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

The team's work provides a step toward better understanding what people want or expect from a robot. | Getty Images/filo

Jul 5, 2019

Can we make it easier for humans to communicate clearly with robots?

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

Virtual assistants could one day have more centralized access to a user’s personal data than Facebook, Amazon and Google combined. | Unsplash/penmax

Jun 4, 2019

Monica Lam: Privacy in the age of virtual assistants

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

A decision maker might think they are evaluating just the data and making decisions free from bias, but is this always true? | Reuters/Mike Segar

Jun 3, 2019

Sharad Goel: How hidden bias affects the criminal justice system

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society

QuizBot is more conversational and more fun and makes students feel like they have a true study partner. | Video courtesy of Bryce Tham, Kevin Craft

May 8, 2019

Move over flashcards. QuizBots prove better at testing your memory

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

The standard way to test new battery designs is time-consuming and expensive. This new method aims to change that. | iStock/anilyanik

Apr 5, 2019

Could AI be used to predict the useful life of batteries?

Artificial Intelligence, Materials, Technology & Society

An app developed by Wall could help children with autism learn to understand facial expressions. | iStock/Joan Vincent Cantó Roig

Apr 2, 2019

Dennis Wall: The changing face of autism diagnosis and treatment

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Health

A new generation of risk assessment tools could make bail decisions more equitable. | Reuters/Morteza Nikoubazl, Unsplash/Markus Spiske, Drea Sullivan

Mar 19, 2019

Can AI help judges make the bail system fairer and safer?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

Gender equality in science isn’t only about fairness; it’s about producing better outcomes. | iStock/solarseven and Drea Sullivan

Mar 12, 2019

Londa Schiebinger: Why does gender matter?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

The OceanOne robot that can dive and recover objects at depths where humans can’t operate. | Image courtesy of Frederic Osada and Teddy Seguin/DRASSM

Mar 5, 2019

Oussama Khatib: My group has always been inspired by the human example

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

At the STAN (Society, Technology, Art and Nature) event in 2011, Ng spoke about his work with autonomous helicopters. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 5, 2019

Andrew Ng: Deep learning has created a sea change in robotics

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Lentink holds an example of the models his students are making to simulate birds in flight. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

David Lentink: We want to fly anywhere, regardless of turbulence

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Salomon Trujillo, John Ulmen, Alan Asbeck, and Cutkosky observe the Stickybot III in a trial run on a glass surface. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

Mark Cutkosky: The work in my lab centers around bio-inspired robots

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society, Transportation & Robotics

Okamura, left, celebrates a successful project with students. | Photo credit: L.A. Cicero

Mar 4, 2019

Allison Okamura: I wasn’t one of those kids that always loved robots

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Transportation & Robotics

Artificial intelligence could be used to tune 5G wireless signals and prevent them from taking dangerous dips. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Feb 28, 2019

Can AI prevent mobile devices from dropping calls?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data

A Stanford-led team figured out how to pack many of the functions of an entire computer onto a single chip. | Pexels/jéshoots and Drea Sullivan

Feb 20, 2019

Engineers create prototype computer-on-a-chip

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Electronics & Networking

But first, researchers must train algorithms to recognize images of orbiting satellites. | Pixabay

Feb 14, 2019

Artificial intelligence may one day guide ‘tow trucks’ in space

Artificial Intelligence, Transportation & Robotics

How could machine learning enable hospitals and doctors to make more informed decisions and improve care? | Reuters/Mario Anzuoni

Jan 9, 2019

Nigam Shah: Artificial intelligence transforms health care

Artificial Intelligence, Health, Technology & Society

How will companies manage the positive and negative impacts of artificial intelligence in the hiring process? | Reuters/Mike Segar

Jan 7, 2019

Adina Sterling: How will artificial intelligence change hiring?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

The intricacies of languages are hard to learn even for human children and non-native speakers. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

Jan 7, 2019

Is language the ultimate frontier of AI research?

Artificial Intelligence, Technology & Society

In terms of research and development, China and the U.S. have very different attitudes toward artificial intelligence. | Reuters/Yuri Gripas

Jan 7, 2019

Who is winning the artificial intelligence race?

Artificial Intelligence

Is there less trust and more deception today or does it just seem that way? | Unsplash/Noah Buscher

Dec 3, 2018

Can we tell truth from fiction in the age of social media?

Artificial Intelligence, Computation & Data, Technology & Society