Menu

Blog

Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 1387

Jan 28, 2021

Congressional Panel: Please, Let Us Build Killer Robots

Posted by in categories: food, military, robotics/AI

“Don’t knock it until you try it” should be for tasting new foods, not building robots capable of ending human life.

Jan 28, 2021

Has Google’s DeepMind revolutionized biology?

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

DeepMind figures out protein folding using artificial intelligence.

Jan 28, 2021

AI comes of age; consumers prefer to talk to machines than humans: Pega survey

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

78% respondents said they were comfortable interacting with AI for business-related queries.


Artificial intelligence has come of age. Customers in the country seem to prefer to get responses from a machine than interacting with humans. The reason, according to a survey, answers given by an AI-system is backed with voluminous data that it crunches to deliver right responses.

A study commissioned by Pegasystems, a Nasdaq-listed digital transformation solutions company, has found that 60 per cent of people in the country are more likely to tell the truth to an AI system or chatbot as compared to a human, Suman Reddy, Managing Director of Pega India, told BusinessLine.

Continue reading “AI comes of age; consumers prefer to talk to machines than humans: Pega survey” »

Jan 28, 2021

Google’s using AI to plan electric car trips because EV charging is still a nightmare

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation

Google is using artificial intelligence to help EV owners plan their routes. Charging an electric vehicle can be very confusing, with stations offering different plugs and different speeds. Google wants to take some the guesswork out of it.

Jan 27, 2021

Launch Event: Meet Spot’s Expanded Product Line

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Boston Dynamics event on Feb. 22021.


We’re excited to reveal the latest in Spot’s expanded product line. Join us live on Tuesday, February 2nd @ 11 am EST, to hear how these products will extend Spot’s value for autonomous inspection and data collection.

Jan 27, 2021

US has ‘moral imperative’ to develop AI weapons, says panel

Posted by in categories: ethics, government, robotics/AI

Draft Congress report claims AI will make fewer mistakes than humans and lead to reduced casualties.

Jan 27, 2021

Humans wouldn’t be able to control a superintelligent AI, according to a new study

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Not only does the research suggest humans wouldn’t be able to control machines — we may not even know when superintelligent machines have arrived.

Jan 27, 2021

Kenyan inventors create bio-robotic arm controlled by brain signals

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

It was invented by David Gathu and Moses Kinyua and is powered by brain signals.

The signals are converted into an electric current by a “NeuroNode” biopotential headset receiver. This electrical current is then driven into the robot’s circuitry, which gives the arm its mobility.

The arm has several component materials including recycled wood and moves vertically and horizontally.

Continue reading “Kenyan inventors create bio-robotic arm controlled by brain signals” »

Jan 27, 2021

Tiny bio-inspired swarm robots for targeted medical interventions

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, nanotechnology, robotics/AI

Micro-sized robots could bring a new wave of innovation in the medical field by allowing doctors to access specific regions inside the human body without the need for highly invasive procedures. Among other things, these tiny robots could be used to carry drugs, genes or other substances to specific sites inside the body, opening up new possibilities for treating different medical conditions.

Researchers at ETH Zurich and Helmholtz Institute Erlangen–Nürnberg for Renewable Energy have recently developed micro and nano-sized robots inspired by biological micro-swimmers (e.g., bacteria or spermatozoa). These , presented in a paper published in Nature Machine Intelligence, are capable of upstream motility, which essentially means that they can autonomously move in the opposite direction to that in which a fluid (e.g., blood) flows. This makes them particularly promising for intervening inside the .

“We believe that the ideas discussed in our multidisciplinary study can transform many aspects of medicine by enabling tasks such as targeted and precise delivery of drugs or genes, as well as facilitating non-invasive surgeries,” Daniel Ahmed, lead author of the recent paper, told TechXplore.

Jan 27, 2021

Center for Applied Data Ethics suggests treating AI like a bureaucracy

Posted by in categories: ethics, robotics/AI

A new research paper suggests AI practitioners adopt anthropology terms to assess large machine learning models that harm people.