In a brick-and-mortar retail store, you have the opportunity to really get to know your customers. You can ask each shopper who walks through your doors what they’re looking for and provide them with ...

Formless 'slime' robots that shape-change to complete complex tasks – it sounds like science fantasy. However, MIT researchers have developed a machine-learning technique that brings shape-changing ...

Machine learning is a subfield of artificial intelligence, which explores how to computationally simulate (or surpass) humanlike intelligence. While some AI techniques (such as expert systems) use ...

People can be conditioned to associate images with particular pain responses -- such as improved tolerance to pain -- even when they are not consciously aware of the images, research suggests. In a ...