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Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance Co. is planning to slash nearly 30 percent of its payment assessment department’s human staff after it introduces an artificial intelligence (AI) system in January 2017 to improve operating efficiency.

A nice roadmap of Ai Cham http://www.forbes.com/sites/gilpress/2016/12/30/a-very-short…1264d4188d

Key milestones in the evolution of artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics.

Apple supplier Foxconn is moving away from human labor and toward full automation — and it’s doing so in three phases. The move is controversial, as the company has already eliminated thousands of jobs.

HUMANS can now control swarms of robots using just their thoughts and eye movements.

In an incredible feat for science, a human has successfully guided a collection of robots using just their brain power.

Cannot wait to get one especially when I need to move my household again.

The elderly may toss their walkers for this robotic suit.

They certainly are off to a great start with the QC satellite communications and their net infrastructure. So, could China indeed dominate AI as the leader of the most advance AI in the world? Maybe as they are on a great start to do so.

After a year of breakthroughs, experts believe they are on the brink of revolutionising our daily lives through artificial intelligence – and Asia can play a leading role in this brave new world.

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The Sino-Israeli Robotics Institute (SIRI) was inaugurated in mid-December when a delegation of nine Israeli companies — led by Ariel University Prof. Zvi Shiller, chair of the Israeli Robotics Association, and Technion Prof. Moshe Shoham, founder of Mazor Robotics and a world leader in medical robotics — participated in the second Sino-Israeli Robotics Innovation Conference in Guangzhou, China.

Intended as “home base” for Israeli robotics companies entering the Chinese market, SIRI is located at the Guangzhou International Robotics Center (ROBOHUB), a government-supported, 4,800-square-meter robotics incubator and demonstration center including a large exhibition and demo area, innovation lab, training center, and corporate offices.

“This is an exciting time for the Israeli robotics industry,” Shiller said. “We are committed to establishing a true partnership with SIRI and ROBOHUB, and we look forward to broadening this strategic cooperation, which will serve as a fast track for transforming ideas into products and for moving products into the Chinese market.”

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Cancer research is an area of medical science that, rightfully, gets considerable attention.

There are nearly 14.5 million Americans with a history of cancer and with more than 13 million estimated new cancer cases each year.

It’s no wonder even artificial intelligence (AI) has gotten into the field. Researchers from the University of Michigan are not getting left behind, with a groundbreaking method that has the potential to eliminate tumours.

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If you thought 2016 was an impressive year for quantum; just wait to see what we have in store you in 2017! Google’s new QC device is coming, AI, the efforts on the Web, etc. Yes, indeed 2017 is going to be a fun and interesting year for QC.

This year has been rollercoaster crash for many with numerous tragedies and crises occurring all over the world, but it doesn’t mean that everything was grim in 2016.

Join IBTimes UK as we take a closer look at the many new developments across various fields of technological research, each with the potential to revolutionise human life for the better.

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