Ceiling robots can reconfigure room lights and curtains
10 May 2023
Robots that magnetically attach to the ceiling can rearrange living and working spaces by controlling different objects
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DeepMind AI uses deception to beat human players in war game Stratego
1 December 2022
An AI has learned to deceive human opponents in the war-themed board game Stratego, which involves imperfect information and a huge number of possible game scenarios
AIs built by Meta beat human experts at Diplomacy
18 October 2022
In a tournament of the first world war strategy game Diplomacy, two AIs built by Facebook's parent company Meta outplayed humans
Quantum computers would be better at Wordle than classical ones
5 August 2022
A player using a quantum algorithm will win the codebreaking game Mastermind, which has the same underlying principles as Wordle, more often and in fewer moves than someone using a classical algorithm
First ever quantum chess tournament won by Amazon researcher
10 December 2020
Quantum chess – a complicated game in which pieces can be in more than one place at the same time – has had its first tournament, and a player from Amazon won
Virtual reality game lets you play with hypercubes in four dimensions
14 May 2020
Imagining how four-dimensional objects would behave in our 3D world is hard, but an interactive simulation of how those objects move and interact could help
People who grow up outside of cities have a better sense of direction
6 February 2020
A mobile video game called Sea Hero Quest has been used to test navigation abilities, showing that people who grew up in cities are worse navigators than others
We finally know the odds of winning a game of solitaire
17 November 2019
What are the chances of winning a game of solitaire? It was once called an “embarrassment” of mathematics that we didn't know, but a computer has now found the answer
Rock, paper, scissors with 100 people could last a quadrillion rounds
1 November 2018
Playing a game of rock, paper, scissors with 100 people would take more than 100,000,000,000,000,000 rounds before there's a winner
Chit-chat makes humans and robots work together better
17 January 2018
Introducing some chatter between humans and artificial intelligence improved the amount of collaboration – and results – across hundreds of games
