The Indie250 celebrations continue this Indie-Penance Day, as Kotaku celebrates the birth of our great indie nation some ...

A little over a decade ago, AI researchers Joel Lehman and Kenneth O. Stanley set small robots fitted with sensors loose in a ...

Running a booming lemon stand in Sell Lemons is a great way to make cash, but what hides beneath the surface? Drop down the manhole to discover a secret sewer maze filled with levers, twists, and dead ...

Do you remember the exit rules for the "stack" and "queue" we did yesterday? Actually, just that "difference in how they are lined up" completely changes how you search a maze. Today, I've summarized ...

In the Micromouse competition, tiny autonomous robots race to solve complex mazes as quickly as possible. Some of the fastest robots can complete the course in as little as six seconds, using sensors, ...

The study, conducted by Brookhaven theoretical physicist Weiguo Yin and described in a recent paper published in Physical Review B, is the first paper emerging from the "AI Jam Session" earlier this ...

As the world races to build artificial superintelligence, one maverick bioengineer is testing how much unprogrammed intelligence may already be lurking in our simplest algorithms to determine whether ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. If you want to solve a tricky problem, it often helps to get organized. You might, for example, break the problem into pieces and tackle ...

Children as young as 4 years old are capable of finding efficient solutions to complex problems, such as independently inventing sorting algorithms developed by computer scientists. The scientists ...