A research team from MIT created a trajectory-planning system called Robust MADER that can allow drones working together in the same airspace to pick safe paths forward without crashing into each other. The algorithm is an updated version of MADER, a 2020 project that worked well in simulation but didn’t hold up in real-world testing.  […]

By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory. Source: A Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears to Violate a Law of Physics | Quanta Magazine

Researchers say we’re on the cusp of “GoPro physics,” where a camera can point at an event and an algorithm can identify the underlying physics equation. Source: ‘Machine Scientists’ Distill the Laws of Physics From Raw Data | Quanta Magazine

Language processing programs are notoriously hard to interpret, but smaller versions can provide important insights into how they work. Source: Researchers Glimpse How AI Gets So Good at Language Processing | Quanta Magazine