Wami Ogunbi opens up about the importance of advocates and mentors in enabling her to achieve—and delivers a message about the importance of inclusion.
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An effort to create a control model that moves seamlessly between different activities like standing, walking and climbing stairs is renewed by the National Institutes of Health.
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A new tool to measure essential properties of the ankle joint—and an exploration of whether botulinum toxin injections are helpful—could help survivors walk better.
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We know more about Mars than our own oceans and lakes. Could artificial intelligence provide answers?
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The study aims to help society, including regulators considering AI safety regulations and organizations considering adopting AI, understand the societal implications of ever-smarter machines.
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And that tracks with the way our motor circuits work—we’re not that complicated.
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Bones that are separate in small jerboas are fully fused in large ones, but the bone structures that are best at dissipating the stresses of jumping are only partially fused.
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New mathematical model links up slithering with some kinds of swimming and walking, and it could make programming many-legged robots easier.
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A way to expand training data sets for manipulation tasks improves the performance of robots by 40% or more
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Highlights include the New York Times.
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