Last week, IBM trumpeted its contributions to a rather unusual paper: the production of a molecule with a half-Möbius topology, assisted by an algorithm run in part on a quantum computer. There was, ...
Long before modern computers existed, scientists and philosophers wondered whether machines could imitate human reasoning. This video traces the evolution of that idea from Aristotle’s logic and ...
The alien-like machines, described as ‘legged metamachines’, are built from autonomous modules that can be snapped together in a variety of forms. Researchers say the approach could lead to robots ...