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Apr 13, 2022

Engineers enlist AI to help scale up advanced solar cell manufacturing

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, solar power, sustainability

Perovskites are a family of materials that are currently the leading contender to potentially replace today’s silicon-based solar photovoltaics. They hold the promise of panels that are far thinner and lighter, that could be made with ultra-high throughput at room temperature instead of at hundreds of degrees, and that are cheaper and easier to transport and install. But bringing these materials from controlled laboratory experiments into a product that can be manufactured competitively has been a long struggle.

Manufacturing perovskite-based involves optimizing at least a dozen or so variables at once, even within one particular manufacturing approach among many possibilities. But a new system based on a novel approach to could speed up the development of optimized production methods and help make the next generation of solar power a reality.

The system, developed by researchers at MIT and Stanford University over the last few years, makes it possible to integrate data from prior experiments, and information based on personal observations by experienced workers, into the machine learning process. This makes the outcomes more accurate and has already led to the manufacturing of perovskite cells with an energy conversion efficiency of 18.5 percent, a competitive level for today’s market.

Apr 13, 2022

What Do Aliens Look Like?

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What would Aliens look like? We should not expect aliens to look like us — they might even be completely mechanical.

See my blog on BigThink.com.

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Apr 13, 2022

California start-up sending tiny robots on fantastic voyage into brains

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

Sending miniature robots deep inside the human skull to treat brain disorders has long been the stuff of science fiction—but it could soon become reality, according to a California start-up.

Bionaut Labs plans its first on humans in just two years for its tiny injectable robots, which can be carefully guided through the using magnets.

“The idea of the micro robot came about way before I was born,” said co-founder and CEO Michael Shpigelmacher.

Apr 12, 2022

How to build brain-inspired neural networks based on light

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

Supercomputers are extremely fast, but also use a lot of power. Neuromorphic computing, which takes our brain as a model to build fast and energy-efficient computers, can offer a viable and much-needed alternative. The technology has a wealth of opportunities, for example in autonomous driving, interpreting medical images, edge AI or long-haul optical communications. Electrical engineer Patty Stabile is a pioneer when it comes to exploring new brain-and biology-inspired computing paradigms. “TU/e combines all it takes to demonstrate the possibilities of photon-based neuromorphic computing for AI applications.”

Patty Stabile, an associate professor in the department of Electrical Engineering, was among the first to enter the emerging field of photonic neuromorphic computing.

“I had been working on a proposal to build photonic digital artificial neurons when in 2017 researchers from MIT published an article describing how they developed a small chip for carrying out the same algebraic operations, but in an analog way. That is when I realized that synapses based on analog technology were the way to go for running artificial intelligence, and I have been hooked on the subject ever since.”

Apr 12, 2022

At long last, a radio telescope on the moon’s far side

Posted by in categories: robotics/AI, space

The Lunar Crater Radio Telescope is now moving into Phase 2 of development. It’ll be built by robots, into a natural bowl-shaped crater on the moon’s far side. If completed, it’ll be the largest radio telescope in the solar system.

Apr 12, 2022

AI predicts if and when someone will experience cardiac arrest

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

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The work, led by Johns Hopkins University researchers, is detailed today in Nature Cardiovascular Research.

Apr 12, 2022

Israeli startup Viz.ai nabs $100m for AI tech that detects brain conditions in scans

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, cybercrime/malcode, finance, media & arts, robotics/AI

Medical tech company Viz.ai, a developer of an AI-powered stroke detection and care platform, has pulled in a new investment of $100 million at a valuation of $1.2 billion, making it Israel’s newest unicorn (a private company valued at over $1 billion).

The company said Thursday that the Series D funding will be used to expand the Viz platform to detect and triage additional diseases and grow its customer base globally.

Viz.ai’s newest round was led by Tiger Global Management, a New York-based investment firm focused on software and financial tech, and Insight Partners, a VC and private equity firm also based in New York. Tiger Global has invested in Israeli companies such as cybersecurity companies Snyk and SentinelOne as well as payroll tech companies Papaya Global and HoneyBook. Insight Partners is a very active foreign investor in Israeli companies, with at least 76 local portfolio startups to its name including privacy startup PlainID, bee tech startup Beewise, and music tech startup JoyTunes.

Apr 12, 2022

Which Industries Will Profit From The Robot Revolution?

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

We are already living in the future. Our everyday lives are influenced by robots in many ways, whether we’re at home or at work. As artificial intelligence, open source algorithms, and cloud technology have been developed in recent years, they have contributed to creating favorable conditions for robot revolution, which is closer than you might expect.

Apr 11, 2022

Computers as Poets: OpenAI’s Algorithmic Poetry

Posted by in categories: information science, internet, robotics/AI

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The growth potential of intelligent machines is attaining milestones almost every other day. Each day, new publications and media houses are reporting the new achievements of AI. But there were still questions about the creative potential of AI. Experts believe that artificial intelligence machines will never be able to achieve the creative consciousness that human intelligence possesses. Well, AI has again proved them wrong! The technology is now capable of creating its own art, out of its own imagination, and also poetry, that only the most deeply conscious human brains can do.

There have been several instances where programming and poetry have converged into generating some of the most outstanding pieces in the history of tech. Programming itself has its own set of minimalist aesthetics that does not take up much space and does not take too long to execute. Also, there have been many programmers who had links to poetry and art, which makes it easier for them to curate a mindblowing tech that can yield the same standard of results. Nowadays, companies like OpenAI create futuristic technology that is not only advanced but also boldly creative. In fact, its poetry-writing AI has made huge strides over the internet!

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Apr 11, 2022

Android banking malware takes over calls to customer support

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, finance, robotics/AI

A banking trojan for Android that researchers call Fakecalls comes with a powerful capability that enables it to take over calls to a bank’s customer support number and connect the victim directly with the cybercriminals operating the malware.

Disguised as a mobile app from a popular bank, Fakecalls displays all the marks of the entity it impersonates, including the official logo and the customer support number.

When the victim tries to call the bank, the malware breaks the connection and shows its call screen, which is almost indistinguishable from the real one.

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