Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 1326
How do you teach a robot dog new tricks? Spotâs API makes it simple to create new behaviors like this machine learning-inspired game of fetch. Read the blog to see how it works. https://bit.ly/34GAJTe
Jun 22, 2021
Itâs a Bird! Itâs a Plane! Itâs a Boeing MQ-25 Stingray!
Posted by Heather Blevins in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The U.S. Navy successfully conducted its first-ever aerial refueling between a manned aircraft and an unmanned tanker. The unmanned tanker was being flown from the ground control station.
The Illinois-based mission lasted about four and a half hours and validated that an unmanned tanker could successfully use the Navyâs standard probe-and-drogue aerial refueling method.
Jun 22, 2021
Robots are stacking shelves in Tokyoâs convenience stores
Posted by Jason Blain in category: robotics/AI
Jun 21, 2021
Tesla to hold artificial intelligence event (NASDAQ: TSLA)
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Tesla (TSLA) CEO Elon Musk says the company is looking at holding a Tesla AI Day in about a month or so. Read details.
Jun 21, 2021
Scientists Built a Walking Mars Rover That Can Climb Steep Hills
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, space
Engineers from ETH Zurich in Switzerland and the Max Planck Institute in Germany built a small quadrupedal robot meant to leap around on the surface of the Moon, much like the Apollo astronauts did half a century ago.
Now SpaceBok, named after the bounding springbok antelope, is getting a Mars upgrade â on the Red Planet, it will have to weather much stronger gravity than on the Moon and face more treacherous terrain, as Wired reports.
The concept is a strong one. If it were to ever land on Mars, a walking robot could explore terrain that has so far been off limits to wheeled rovers â and maybe even the planetâs mysterious caves.
Jun 21, 2021
Evolution, rewards, and artificial intelligence
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Last week, I wrote an analysis of Reward Is Enough, a paper by scientists at DeepMind. As the title suggests, the researchers hypothesize that the right reward is all you need to create the abilities associated with intelligence, such as perception, motor functions, and language.
This is in contrast with AI systems that try to replicate specific functions of natural intelligence such as classifying images, navigating physical environments, or completing sentences.
The researchers go as far as suggesting that with well-defined reward, a complex environment, and the right reinforcement learning algorithm, we will be able to reach artificial general intelligence, the kind of problem-solving and cognitive abilities found in humans and, to a lesser degree, in animals.
Jun 21, 2021
EU data watchdogs want ban on AI facial recognition
Posted by SaĂșl Morales RodriguĂ©z in categories: biotech/medical, privacy, robotics/AI
The EUâs data protection agencies on Monday called for an outright ban on using artificial intelligence to identify people in public places, pointing to the âextremely highâ risks to privacy.
In a non-binding opinion, the two bodies called for a âgeneral banâ on the practice that would include ârecognition of faces, gait, fingerprints, DNA, voice, keystrokes and other biometric or behavioural signals, in any contextâ.
Such practices âinterfere with fundamental rights and freedoms to such an extent that they may call into question the essence of these rights and freedoms,â the heads of the European Data Protection Board and the European Data Protection Supervisor said.
Jun 21, 2021
At last, a way to build artificial intelligence with business results in mind: ModelOps
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, robotics/AI
Is there a way for IT leaders to be proactive about AI and machine learning without ruffling and rattling an organization of people who want the miracles of AI and ML delivered tomorrow morning? The answer is yes.
Jun 21, 2021
Tesla unveils its new supercomputer (5th most powerful in the world) to train self-driving AI
Posted by Jason Blain in categories: robotics/AI, supercomputing
Tesla has unveiled its new supercomputer, which is already the fifth most powerful in the world, and itâs going to be the predecessor of Teslaâs upcoming new Dojo supercomputer.
It is being used to train the neural nets powering Teslaâs Autopilot and upcoming self-driving AI.
Over the last few years, Tesla has had a clear focus on computing power both inside and outside its vehicles.