Matthew and Thomas Pidden from the UK designed a robot that solved a 4x4x4 cube in 45.30 seconds, smashing a 10-year-old ...

Scientists estimate there may be more than 20 quadrillion ants on Earth. Yet despite their abundance, studying the fine details of ant anatomy has always been slow work. Each specimen typically has ...

Sci-fi stories ask “what if,” and they answer “then what.” Whether the film is an exciting blockbuster, a tiny and ambitious ...

SCS researchers, including CSD's Guying Lin (shown), have developed a new scene-generation framework that creates physically realistic, simulation-ready 3D scenes from text prompts. PAT3D generates 3D ...

SCS seniors Claire de Saint Phalle (seated) and Tanisha Saxena have received this year's Stehlik Scholarship for their excellence beyond the classroom.

This frames the plot of “The Evitable Conflict,” a short story from “I, Robot,” Isaac Asimov’s seminal collection published in 1950. In the background of the nuclear age, technology was quietly ...

Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using sound to help people with hand tremors, cerebral palsy, nervous system damage, and other fine-motor limitations enjoy video games.

Indian AI researcher Devendra Singh Chaplot announces he is joining SpaceX and xAI to work with Elon Musk on advancing superintelligence.

Devendra Singh Chaplot is an IIT Bombay Computer Science graduate who has a PhD in Machine Learning from Carnegie Mellon ...

POMDP, an AI framework inspired by dogs that allows robots to use human gestures and language to find objects with 89% accuracy.

Whether in the kitchen or on a workshop floor, robot assistants that can fetch items for people could be extremely useful.

By incorporating insights from canine companions, researchers enable robots to use both language and gesture as inputs to help fetch the right objects.