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Not so simple machines: Cracking the code for materials that can learn
December 09, 2024
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, Dec. 9 -- The University of Michigan issued the following news:

University of Michigan researchers showed how mechanical neural networks--the black lattices of triangles--could be trained to solve problems. credit: Shuaifeng Li

Study: Training all-mechanical neural networks for task learning through in situ backpropagation (DOI:10.1038/s41467-024-54849-z)

It's easy to think that machine learning is a completely digital phenomenon, . . .

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