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  • December 12, 2018

    Elowan: A Plant-Robot Hybrid

    Elowan is a combination of robotics and a living plant, it's a cybernetic plant. The system was created by some researchers from MIT's Media Lab who had the goal of creating a machine that was in direct dialogue with a...

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  • December 5, 2018

    The First Interactive AI Rendered Virtual World

    Researchers at NVIDIA recently showcased an interactive world created and rendered using an AI model. They achieved this by combining machine learning and computer graphics to perform image generation using deep learning based neural networks. The model was trained using...

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  • November 27, 2018

    The electrical plane with no moving parts...

      Researchers from MIT have achieved flight in their project to create a plane with no moving parts. The small-scale plane has a wingspan of 5 meters and weighs only 2.5kg but has absolutely no moving parts. The plane was...

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  • November 21, 2018

    Cassie - The next generation of bipedal robots

      We love our robots but when we first came across Cassie even we were surprised at how well the system could stand and move being a bipedal robot. The above video shows how the universities sub-company Agility Robotics developed the robot...

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  • November 14, 2018

    China Unveil AI News Presenter

      The Chinese state-run press agency Xinhua recently debuted their first AI news anchor. They state that it is created from digital models of their human news presenters but other than that they have said very little about the technology behind...

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  • November 7, 2018

    The Supercomputer With One Million Processors

    A supercomputer at Manchester University recently had its 1 millionth processor added. The Spiking Neural Network Architecture which is more commonly known as "SpiNNaker" is a supercomputer which was built and designed to operate like the human brain. The system...

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  • October 30, 2018

    The AI Generated Portrait That Sold For Over $400,000

    A portrait created using artificial intelligence recently sold for $432,000 when it was auctioned at a New York auction house. The piece entitled Portrait of Edmond Belamy was created by the French company Obvious who specialise in AI research. Over 15,000 pictures...

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  • October 23, 2018

    The Ultimate Paper Plane Resource

    Everyone's made a paper aeroplane before and we've all been disappointed when they barely fly. Well, we've found a website that has 40 different paper aeroplane designs each with detailed step by step instructions. Fold N Fly even tags each design to...

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  • October 16, 2018

    The robot that can do Parkour...

    Your favourite robotics company Boston Dynamics released an update video for their internet-famous robot "Atlas". The video shows the Atlas running and jumping over obstacles, it even shows it jumping up three 40cm steps without breaking stride. It uses a...

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