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Aug 15, 2016
DARPA wants your help to take down drones
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: drones, military, robotics/AI
DARPA recently put out a Request for Information on new ways to protect military forces from small unmanned air systems (sUAS).
Aug 15, 2016
Legions of nanorobots target cancerous tumours with precision
Posted by Gerard Bain in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Researchers from Polytechnique Montréal, Université de Montréal and McGill University have just achieved a spectacular breakthrough in cancer research. They have developed new nanorobotic agents capable of navigating through the bloodstream to administer a drug with precision by specifically targeting the active cancerous cells of tumours. This way of injecting medication ensures the optimal targeting of a tumour and avoids jeopardizing the integrity of organs and surrounding healthy tissues. As a result, the drug dosage that is highly toxic for the human organism could be significantly reduced.
This scientific breakthrough has just been published in the prestigious journal Nature Nanotechnology in an article titled “Magneto-aerotactic bacteria deliver drug-containing nanoliposomes to tumour hypoxic regions.” The article notes the results of the research done on mice, which were successfully administered nanorobotic agents into colorectal tumours.
“These legions of nanorobotic agents were actually composed of more than 100 million flagellated bacteria — and therefore self-propelled — and loaded with drugs that moved by taking the most direct path between the drug’s injection point and the area of the body to cure,” explains Professor Sylvain Martel, holder of the Canada Research Chair in Medical Nanorobotics and Director of the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory, who heads the research team’s work. “The drug’s propelling force was enough to travel efficiently and enter deep inside the tumours.”
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Aug 15, 2016
Step-by-Step Machine Learning
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: information science, robotics/AI
Deep Learning and Machine Learning: Get the most out of your training and scoring, and algorithms and frameworks on Intel® architecture.
Aug 15, 2016
Facebook’s 10-Year Plan: Connectivity, Artificial Intelligence, And Virtual Reality
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: internet, robotics/AI, transportation, virtual reality
Earlier this year at Facebook’s F8 conference, the company revealed three innovation pillars that make up the company’s ten-year vision: connectivity, artificial intelligence (AI), and virtual reality (VR). Facebook’s Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer is responsible for leading each of them. Despite the fact that the vision is ten-years in duration, the company has made significant progress in each.
Facebook’s progress in AI can been seen in everything from the company’s news feed to the way in which people are tagged. The virtual reality innovations are best demonstrated through the Oculus Rift, which I demo’d last Thursday. More recently, the company made a great flight forward on the connectivity pillar as Acquila, a long-endurance plane that will fly above commercial aircraft and the weather, took flight in Arizona. The goal is for this v-shaped aircraft that has a wingspan longer than a Boeing 737, but weighs under 1,o00 pounds to bring basic internet access to the developing world.
I met with Schroepfer at Facebook’s headquarters in Menlo Park, and we discussed these three pillars and a variety of other topics, including the company’s recruiting methods, how the company maintains its innovative edge, and the logic behind its headquarters — one of the largest open-space offices in the world.
Aug 15, 2016
NASA’s Asteroid Redirect Mission Completes Robotic Design Milestone
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: robotics/AI, space
After completing mission development milestone, the Asteroid Redirect Mission proceeds toward robotic launch in 2021.
Aug 14, 2016
Another Tesla Autopilot Crash, This Time in China
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: government, robotics/AI, sustainability, transportation
One more of these; we may see government step in at the consumer’s urging.
Nobody was killed or even injured. But a minor accident involving a Tesla Model S running on Autopilot in China is again raising questions about exactly how the feature works.
The electric car company said Wednesday that it is investigating the Aug. 2 incident. The driver’s Tesla sideswiped a Volkswagen that was parked halfway in the lane of a busy Beijing highway. The company said Autopilot was engaged and the driver was not holding the steering wheel.
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Aug 14, 2016
The head of Google’s Brain team is more worried about the lack of diversity in artificial intelligence than an AI apocalypse
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
Something that I have shared many times as an issue/ gap with robotics and other AI technology.
Lack of diversity is more than a public relations issue, people.
Aug 13, 2016
DeepDrive: People at research labs are supposedly playing around with testing their AI’s in current gen
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: entertainment, neuroscience, robotics/AI
Video games. The last i heard AI had been up to playing and Mastering Atari 2600 games, and that was a few years ago. Figured it was only a matter of time til they started playing around with current gen stuff.
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