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Jun 30, 2021

Autonomous excavators ready for around the clock real-world deployment

Posted by in categories: materials, robotics/AI

Researchers from Baidu Research and the University of Maryland have developed a robotic excavator system that integrates perception, planning, and control capabilities to enable material loading over a long duration with no human intervention.

Jun 30, 2021

David Rolnick

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

He’s employing artificial intelligence in the fight against climate change.

Jun 30, 2021

Dell’s versatile UltraSharp 4K webcam uses AI to keep you in the frame

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

It costs $199.99 and includes a monitor and tripod mount.


Dell has launched a high-end UltraSharp webcam that costs $199.99 and is available now worldwide. Its cylindrical design is reminiscent of Apple’s old but iconic iSight external webcam, but its features are aimed to compete with Logitech’s Brio and other modern 4K-ready webcams. In addition, it aims to serve as a more affordable and easier-to-set up alternative to mounting a DSLR camera behind your monitor.

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Jun 29, 2021

Microsoft and OpenAI have a new A.I. tool that will give coding suggestions to software developers

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Microsoft is looking to simplify the process of programming, the area where the company got its start in 1975. That could keep programmers who already use the company’s tools satisfied and also attract new ones.

The system, called GitHub Copilot, draws on source code uploaded to code-sharing service GitHub, which Microsoft acquired in 2018, as well as other websites. Microsoft and GitHub developed it with help from OpenAI, an AI research start-up that Microsoft backed in 2019.

Researchers at Microsoft and other institutions have been trying to teach computers to write code for decades. The concept has yet to go mainstream, at times because programs to write programs have not been versatile enough. The GitHub Copilot effort is a notable attempt in the field, relying as it does on a large volume of code in many programming languages and vast Azure cloud computing power.

Jun 29, 2021

A Hippocratic Oath for your AI doctor

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

A new WHO reports lays out ethical principles for AI in medicine, but applying them won’t be easy.

Jun 29, 2021

DataRobot raises $250 million for enterprise AI

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

The Boston-based company is now worth more than $6 billion.

Jun 29, 2021

GitHub and OpenAI launch a new AI tool that generates its own code

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It can assist coders by generating and autocompleting code for their projects.


GitHub and OpenAI have launched a technical preview of a new AI tool called Copilot, which lives inside the Visual Studio Code editor and autocompletes code snippets.

Copilot does more than just parrot back code it’s seen before, according to GitHub. It instead analyzes the code you’ve already written and generates new matching code, including specific functions that were previously called. Examples on the project’s website include automatically writing the code to import tweets, draw a scatterplot, or grab a Goodreads rating.

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Jun 29, 2021

New AI Can Make Actors Look Like They’re Speaking Any Language

Posted by in categories: entertainment, robotics/AI

A new AI dubbing technology syncs actors’ mouths with recorded dialogue to make the experience of watching a movie in an unknown language less jarring.

The challenge: If you want to watch a movie in a language you don’t understand, you have two choices: you can either read subtitles, which can be distracting, or you can watch a dubbed version of the film.

During the dubbing process, voice actors who do speak your language record all of the film’s dialogue in a sound booth. The original dialogue is then replaced with that audio.

Jun 29, 2021

‘Edge of chaos’ opens pathway to artificial intelligence discoveries

Posted by in categories: nanotechnology, robotics/AI

Scientists at the University of Sydney and Japan’s National Institute for Material Science (NIMS) have discovered that an artificial network of nanowires can be tuned to respond in a brain-like way when electrically stimulated.

The international team, led by Joel Hochstetter with Professor Zdenka Kuncic and Professor Tomonobu Nakayama, found that by keeping the network of in a brain-like state “at the edge of chaos”, it performed tasks at an optimal level.

This, they say, suggests the underlying nature of neural intelligence is physical, and their discovery opens an exciting avenue for the development of artificial intelligence.

Jun 28, 2021

Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have claimed the world’s first use of AI & supercomputing in war!

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

I doubt they were the first to use artificial intelligence in war. But it does discuss the AI technologies used in the recent conflict.

They used AI technology to identify targets for air strikes, specifically to counter the extensive tunnel network of their opponents.

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