Researchers at Australian start-up Cortical Labs have taught human neurons grown on a chip to play the classic Doom game. In 2021, they had already used 800,000 neurons to play Pong. Now, with four ...

Indie studio Human Computer announced today that it had raised $5.7 million in its seed funding round, bringing its total funding to date up to $7.7 million. Makers Fund participated in the round, ...

With many millions of Americans suffering from Alzheimer’s and dementia, cognitive decline is a major issue. The cost of dementia care is a rude awakening for many families, and patients experiencing ...

Human pose estimation stands as a pivotal area within computer vision, dedicated to identifying and localising human body keypoints in images or video sequences. This technology underpins a multitude ...

The 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS) in Madeira, Portugal, features work from ten ATLAS community members representing three labs. This year’s event has five focus areas: ...

Images generated by the system that were most highly ranked by humans (all images courtesy Ahmed Elgammal/Rutgers University) The results of this study were published last month in a paper penned by ...

Last week, I discussed how generative AI and Large Language Models enable a fundamental shift away from the search bar and website link list that dominated how we have conducted internet search for ...

As the body’s most external organ, skin is privileged for human-computer interfaces because it can be accessed non-invasively. Despite much progress on thin flexible devices that conform to skin for ...

On Thursday, February 12, the Lex Fridman Podcast, featured Peter Steinberger, a software engineer and the creator of the viral AI agent OpenClaw. The episode touched on the psychological evolution of ...