For millions of stroke survivors, walking again is the single most consequential milestone on the long road back to independence. Robotic exoskeletons promise to accelerate that journey, but the machines face a deceptively hard problem: to assist a leg safely, they must know, in real time, exactly which phase of the gait cycle that leg

Deep learning has now peered inside nearly five thousand human hips, and what it found could reshape how scientists think about one of the most common degenerative conditions in the world. In a study published in the Annals of Biomedical Engineering, researchers in the Netherlands developed and validated a fully automated, MRI-based method for analyzing

Google and chipmaker Synaptics are previewing a microcontroller designed to bring multimodal AI to devices constrained by power, memory and cost, from wearables to industrial sensors. Synaptics CEO Rahul Patel outlined the chip’s capabilities Oct. 14 at Google Research’s annual Research@ event in Mountain View, ahead of its formal launch Oct. 20. It combines Google’s

The North Star Every organization racing to deploy AI agents faces the same reckoning: an agent that demos beautifully can quietly degrade in production, and by the time a human notices, the trust is already broken. Where traditional software fails loudly, agents fail softly. They return an answer that looks confident, reads fluently, and is

Five US robotics and AI teams will test Proof of Quality against their own datasets and expert judgments, with 72 hours for each evaluation. Sapien is inviting US robotics, world model and physical AI teams to test its evaluation system, Proof of Quality (PoQ), on some of their most difficult datasets. Five organizations will be

Assessing breast MRI scans, pathology and clinical data, the AI-powered TumorSight Risk software reportedly provides five- and 10-year risk for breast cancer recurrence for women with HR+, HER2-negative stage I-IIIA breast cancer. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued 510(k) clearance for TumorSight Risk, an AI-enabled software that can provide long-term assessments of breast

Adobe Stock Key insight: When banks use AI chatbots to provide customer support on decisions about mortgages and loans, they can risk violating consumer-protection laws. Supporting data: Corporations remain liable when chatbots give wrong answers, create endless doom loops, or fail to solve problems, former regulators argue in  a new report.  Banks that use AI

As an embryo develops from a small cluster of stem cells, those once “blank slate” cells begin to take on more specialized roles like brain, liver, or muscle cells, and organize themselves into three-dimensional structures such as tissues and organs. The fate of each cell — what type of specialized cell it will become —