Need a hug and no one familiar to wrap your arms around? A doctoral student at the "Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems" is developing a hugging robot that could once alleviate loneliness.

An artificial intelligence (AI)-based image recognition method is detecting planets outside our solar system that remain invisible using conventional approaches.

Microchips are becoming smaller and smaller: hard drives write entire encyclopedias on discs the size of a fingernail. Many processes take place at the atomic level - and little is known about them. Now PSI researchers have reached a milestone.

Researchers at MIT have developed a method that helps users understand how a machine learning model thinks and compare it to how a human thinks.

Scientists in Singapore have developed a low-cost device that can harness the energy of light breezes and store it as electricity.

Many bridges are getting on in years and need renovation. Empa has optimised a strengthening method that allows concrete to withstand 77 percent more pressure.

Never before have flexible solar cells been so efficient: A team from the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (Empa) has created a flexible thin-film solar cell with a record-breaking efficiency of 20.8 percent.

The IFA in Berlin is a window on the future. The key trend in 2019: the smart home. Kitchens are growing ears and monsters are moving into our bathrooms.

Inrecent years, few technologies have evolved at the speed of Artificial Intelligence, and in particular at that of Neural Networks. This exponential growth has been achieved mainly due to two factors:

Researchers have developed a drone that can locate missing people in dense forests. It performs all calculations on board, flies fully autonomously and continuously optimizes its flight path.