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Jan 29, 2021

Here’s what happened when AI and humans met in a strawberry-growing contest

Posted by in categories: food, robotics/AI

A fruitful experiment.


Top strawberry growers were pitted against data scientists in a smart-agriculture competition organized by Chinese e-commerce platform Pinduoduo.

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Jan 29, 2021

NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover landing will be must-see TV

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

The next robot on Mars will touch down in a few weeks, and the views will be truly otherworldly.

Jan 28, 2021

Deep learning-based assessment of student engagement could aid classroom research

Posted by in categories: education, robotics/AI

Past research has identified student engagement, or the extent to which students participate and are involved in classroom activities, as a crucial factor determining both the quality of education programs and the academic performance of individual students. As a result, many educators worldwide are actively trying to devise courses that maximize student engagement.

Jan 28, 2021

Using artificial intelligence to predict which women will develop breast cancer

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

A team of researchers with members from institutions in the U.S., Sweden and Taiwan has developed an artificial intelligence system for predicting breast cancer years before tumors appear. In their paper published in the journal Science Translational Medicine, the group describes how they developed and trained their system and how well it worked when tested.

Jan 28, 2021

The Marines Are Loading This Mean-Looking Boat With Kamikaze Drones

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

If the U.S. and China ever come to blows, this vessel will play a big part in the battle.


The U.S. Marine Corps is taking a completely new tack to providing fire support during amphibious landings: unmanned boats stocked full of suicide drones.

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Jan 28, 2021

Singapore launches new self-driving bus trial

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, transportation

Singapore has moved a step closer to a driverless public transport network with the launch of a new trial of self-driving buses.

Jan 28, 2021

Scientists publish a blueprint to apply artificial intelligence to extend human longevity

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

The international team of artificial intelligence experts and medical doctors propose a framework for the application of next-generation AI to extend human longevity.

Deep Longevity Ltd.

Research News

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.

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