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AI Scheduling System Takes Over Telescope for Autonomous Stargazing

Scientists from Northwestern University, the University of Chicago, and Fermilab have developed an AI scheduling system that can take control of a telescope and plan its viewing direction, marking a step toward 'autonomous observatories.' The AI has been installed on the Victor M. Blanco 4-meter Telescope in Chile and is already matching human dispatchers in decision-making capability.

36Kr03.08 · 03:01

Robotics 🇺🇸

Nearly Invisible Drone Phantom Twist Developed

Robotics engineers at Northwestern University have introduced the Phantom Twist drone, which becomes nearly invisible to the human eye by spinning at 15–25 Hz. The device uses the persistence of vision effect: rapid rotation turns it into a transparent blur. The design was optimized using a computational method that minimizes the LPIPS metric (Learned Perceptual Image Patch Similarity) for image similarity with the background.

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IEEE Spectrum AI27.07 · 01:05