Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 2267
Jun 9, 2016
Living computers and nano-robots: what’s the future for DNA manipulation?
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, computing, nanotechnology, robotics/AI
Jun 9, 2016
Intelligence experts approach industry for UUV networks for covert surveillance of shipping
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: robotics/AI, surveillance
WASHINGTON, 9 June 2016. U.S. intelligence experts are asking industry for ideas on developing networks of unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV) for covert surveillance of international ship traffic in important harbors, waterways, and choke points.
Officials of the U.S. Intelligence Advanced Projects Agency (IARPA) in Washington issued a sources-sought notice Tuesday (IARPA-BAA-16–09) for the UnderWatch project.
The IARPA UnderWatch project seeks to use UUV networks to monitor ships and maneuver to inspect contacts of interest. IARPA is the research arm of the U.S. Director of National Intelligence.
Jun 9, 2016
3000 Engineers Might Get Fired At Wipro After Artificial Intelligence Learns To Do Their Work!
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: employment, robotics/AI
Today’s reminder that you are definitely living in the future — 3,000 engineers have an “uncertain future” after Holmes, an artificial intelligence (AI) tool at Wipro which can automate these projects.
The Prostitutes Of The Future Will Be Robots, According To This Study
According to the Mint, it will free up 3,000 engineers from “mundane” software maintenance jobs, and save save the company about $46.5 million.
Jun 8, 2016
This candy store 3D prints your wildest candy dreams
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: 3D printing, food, robotics/AI
Jun 8, 2016
The Elderly May One Day Swap Their Motorized Scooters for Robotic Suits
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, cyborgs, robotics/AI, wearables
Robotic exoskeletons, long a staple of sci-fi novels, comic books, and movies, are now part of the real world—and they’ve mostly followed the sci-fi model. That is, exoskeletons are wearable robots. All metal, all the time. But metal suits are heavy and power hungry, and the human body isn’t metal. If you actually plan to use an exoskeleton for an extended period of time, this can be a bit of a design flaw.
That’s where a new exosuit developed by SRI International is looking to flip the script. Instead of working to build exoskeletons—which are rigid like their namesake—SRI is using soft robotics to make lightweight, wearable “exomuscles” and “exotendons.”
Instead of a human-shaped heavy metal frame, SRI’s exosuit is soft, pliable, and intelligent. The suit learns and adapts to its wearer’s movements to give them a boost when needed. It’s quick to put on and relatively energy efficient.
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Jun 8, 2016
Artificial Intelligence ‘outsmarts cancer’
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI
Promising.
Early trial data shows a drug developed using artificial intelligence can slow the growth of cancer in clinical trials.
The data, presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology conference, showed some tumours shrank by around a quarter.
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Jun 8, 2016
Our Skynet Moment: Debating Morality Of AI – Analysis
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: computing, robotics/AI, security
The rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI) has serious implications for our future. The issues and their oversight are not just the domain of computer engineers, technologists and AI experts. Policymakers, Smart Nation experts and security officials too should come together with them to ponder implications and set out the parameters, if needed, for future research and development.
By Shashi Jayakumar(
In March this year, AlphaGo, a machine created by Google’s artificial intelligence (AI) arm, DeepMind, trounced Lee Sedol, a grandmaster at Go, the ancient Chinese game. AlphaGo used cutting-edge AI to beat a player acknowledged to be one of the greatest ever.
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Jun 7, 2016
China embarks on tech shopping spree for German robots and pianos
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: business, economics, robotics/AI
China has been on a shopping tour of Germany, splurging on a string of key industrial companies in the past few weeks as Beijing moves to acquire the country’s fabled technological know-how and turn its own products into global brands.
But resistance to the offensive is growing following a 5 billion euro ($7.7 billion) bid last month by Chinese home appliance group Midea for leading German industrial robot maker Kuka.
The size of the play set alarm bells ringing across the business and political establishment of Europe’s biggest economy.
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Jun 7, 2016
White House Challenges Artificial Intelligence Experts to Reduce Incarceration Rates
Posted by Karen Hurst in category: robotics/AI
A new twist on AI.
On Tuesday, June 7, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Lynn Overmann, who also leads the White House Police Data Initiative, stressed the severity of the nation’s incarceration crisis while asking a crowd of data scientists and artificial intelligence specialists for aid.
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