by Ingrid Fadelli | Dec 23, 2023 | Machine learning & AI, TECHXPLORE
Artificial intelligence (AI) tools are now widely employed worldwide, assisting both engineers and non-expert users with a wide range of tasks. Assessing the safety and reliability of these tools is thus of utmost importance, as it could ultimately help to better...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Dec 23, 2023 | Genetics, MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
Humans and other mammals can produce a wide range of sounds, while also modulating their volume and pitch. These sounds, also known as mammalian vocalizations, play a central role in communication between both animals of the same and of different species.
by Ingrid Fadelli | Dec 23, 2023 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
In recent years, roboticists and computer scientists have introduced various new computational tools that could improve interactions between robots and humans in real-world settings. The overreaching goal of these tools is to make robots more responsive and attuned to...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Dec 23, 2023 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
To best move in their surrounding environment and tackle everyday tasks, robots should be able to perform complex motions, effectively coordinating the movement of individual limbs. Roboticists and computer scientists have thus been trying to develop computational...
by Ingrid Fadelli | Dec 23, 2023 | MEDICALXPRESS, Neuroscience
The orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), a subsection of the brain’s frontal lobe, is known to play a part in value-based decision-making, the process of mentally weighing the outcome of different decisions and then selecting one. Value-based decisions include, for...