I love this story about a new
ultra-efficient robot cheetah developed at MIT for at least three reasons.
Firstly, it shows we're close to breaking another
better-than-nature barrier when it comes to robotics and AI. This time in the guise of a metallic quadruped that sports a running efficiency similar …
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For an expert radiologist a computed tomography (CT) scan provides a wealth of information, and helps to establish diagnoses such as lung cancer. Because forming a diagnosis often requires finding anomalies in a scan, you would think that radiologists are best equipped to detect
any anomaly.
However, a recent study by a team of scientists at …
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Science, art, philosophy: rational appreciation of the natural world