by Ingrid Fadelli | May 1, 2021 | Machine learning & AI, Robotics, TECHXPLORE
RealAnt: an open-source low-cost quadruped robot for real-world reinforcement learning research. Credit: Ote Robotics Ltd, CC BY 4.0 license. Over the past decade or so, roboticists and computer scientists have tried to use reinforcement learning (RL) approaches to...
by Ingrid Fadelli | May 1, 2021 | PHYS.ORG, Physics
Extremely light and weakly interacting particles may play a crucial role in cosmology and in the ongoing search for dark matter. Unfortunately, however, these particles have so far proved very difficult to detect using existing high-energy colliders. Researchers...
by Ingrid Fadelli | May 1, 2021 | PHYS.ORG, Physics, Quantum Physics
The standard model of particle physics only accounts for 20% of matter in the universe. Physicists have theorized that the remaining 80% is made up by so-called dark matter, which consists of particles that do not emit, absorb or reflect light and thus cannot be...
by Ingrid Fadelli | May 1, 2021 | Computer Sciences, Machine learning & AI, TECHXPLORE
Researchers at University of Calgary, Adobe Research and University of Colorado Boulder have recently created an augmented reality (AR) interface that can be used to produce responsive sketches, graphics and visualizations. Their work, initially pre-published on...
by Ingrid Fadelli | May 1, 2021 | Electronics & Semiconductors, Energy & Green Tech, TECHXPLORE
The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a chemical process that leads to the generation of molecular oxygen. This reaction is of key importance for the development of clean energy technologies, including water electrolyzers, regenerative fuel cells and rechargeable...
