Animal Robot

Scientists, including UVM's Josh Bongard, have used AI to create self-replicating living robots dubbed Xenobots. Watch this new Scientific American video about Xenobots, "Animal Robot."

UVM Artist Uses Research and Artificial Intelligence to Create

Utilizing the VACC to produce artwork via various machine learning processes, Lecturer Jenn Karson explores the crossroads between art and artificial intelligence.

UVM's Hedonometer Used to Measure Russian Sentiment Over War in Ukraine

What do Russians think about the war in Ukraine? Scientists from UVM’s Computational Story Lab collaborated with data journalists at The Economist to find out.

Using the lab’s Hedonometer, they analyzed sentiment in Russian-language Twitter and discovered that “mood has worsened eight times more than at the start of the covid-19 pandemic.”

See “The war in Ukraine has made Russian social-media users glum.” (NOTE: This article is behind a paywall.)

For more about the Hedonometer, see Invention: The Storywrangler.