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Sep 5, 2018
Lockheed’s drone challenge: create an AI pilot that beats pro racers
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: drones, robotics/AI
While autonomous drones exist, they’re not usually what you’d call speedy when many skilled pilots could beat them in a race. Lockheed Martin and the Drone Racing League want to do better. They’re launching an AlphaPilot Innovation Challenge that will encourage the public to develop drone AI that can not only race at high speeds, but win. Competitors will have to build an NVIDIA Jetson-based AI system that can swiftly move through the League’s Artificial Intelligence Robot Racing circuit.
Sep 5, 2018
Volvo’s 360c concept car is a fully autonomous bedroom on wheels
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The Volvo 360c fully autonomous, all-electric concept car is a conversation starter. It envisions the replacement of short-haul flights with luxuriously comfortable car travel, while also proposing ideas for a more efficient work commute.
Sep 5, 2018
Robots on the Rise: 5 Examples of Innovations in Industrial Robotics
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: innovation, robotics/AI
From picking fruit to driving architectural progress, innovations in industrial robotics could launch a new machine age—one that could help humanity solve some of its biggest challenges.
Sep 5, 2018
Labor Day 2040: What Happens When Robots Do All the Work?
Posted by TJ Wass in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Sep 5, 2018
An Insider’s Look Into The Summer School Training The World’s Top AI Researchers
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: education, robotics/AI
Students benefit from classes by the leading experts in each subset of AI research. Students learn about techniques like computational reinforcement learning by one of the inventors of the technique (Richard Sutton). The list of over 28 AI experts allows students to develop a deeper intuition about AI techniques from often the people who are at the forefront or have invented a particular AI technique.
Aside from the world-class instruction, AI companies sponsor dinners and rooftop socials meant to facilitate future collaborations among research labs.
The CIFAR deep learning and reinforcement learning school has been training the world’s top AI researchers since 2005. Here we take an insider’s look at the school.
Sep 4, 2018
How Self-Driving Supergroup Aurora Plans to Make Robocars Real
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
One of the most respected—and quietest—teams in the race for autonomy reveals its approach to a problem that’s much harder than everybody hoped.
Sep 3, 2018
It’s the year 2038–here’s how we’ll eat 20 years in the future
Posted by Alex Vikoulov in categories: 3D printing, food, genetics, robotics/AI
It’s the year 2038. The word “flavor” has fallen into disuse. Sugar is the new cigarettes, and we have managed to replace salt with healthy plants. We live in a society in which we eat fruit grown using genetics. We drink synthetic wine, scramble eggs that do not come from chickens, grill meat that was not taken from animals, and roast fish that never saw the sea… Here’s a futurist outlook at the next two decades of food developments, from robot farmers to 3D-printed meals to AI monitoring of your daily calorie intake.
Sep 3, 2018
Cancer-tracking AI could save lives
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Knowing what a cancer will do next could help doctors treat patients or prolong their lives with pre-emptive treatments.
Sep 2, 2018
Activists urge killer robot ban ‘before it is too late’
Posted by Nicholi Avery in categories: geopolitics, robotics/AI, treaties
Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots “before it is too late”, activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN.
They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the UN body hosting the talks—the Convention of Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW)—for moving too slowly.
“Killer robots are no longer the stuff of science fiction,” Rasha Abdul Rahim, Amnesty International’s advisor on artificial intelligence and human rights, said in a statement.
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