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Google Mini captures top spot in connected speaker market: survey
Sep 19, 2018 (AFP)
The Strategy Analytics report for the second quarter of 2018 showed the smallest device from Google captured 20 percent of the market with sales of 2.3 million....
Machines will do more tasks than humans by 2025: WEF
Sep 17, 2018 (AFP)
The sharp increase could also see a net gain in "new roles" for humans, who will have to revamp skills to keep pace with the "seismic shift" in how we work with...
Digital assistants hone skills to deliver the news
Sep 16, 2018 (AFP)
Devices such as Amazon's Alexa-powered speakers, Google Home and Apple HomePod are increasingly delivering news flashes and summaries, and giving users the opti...
Novel flying robot mimics rapid insect flight
Sep 14, 2018 (SPX)
Flying animals both power and control flight by flapping their wings. This enables small natural flyers such as insects to hover close to a flower, but also to ...
A cyborg cockroach could someday save your life
Sep 11, 2018 (SPX)
Scientists have spent the better part of the past decade exploring ways to tether live insects to miniaturized computer hardware so they can manipulate an insec...
Robot can pick up any object after inspecting it
Sep 10, 2018 (SPX)
More recently, breakthroughs in computer vision have enabled robots to make basic distinctions between objects, but even then, they don't truly understand objec...
Lockheed Martin Partners with Deakin University to Further Develop Industrial Exoskeleton
Sep 10, 2018 (SPX)
The FORTIS is an unpowered, lightweight exoskeleton designed by Lockheed Martin that makes tools weighing up to 36 pounds feel weightless - reducing user fatigu...
If military robot falls, it can get itself up
Sep 04, 2018 (SPX)
Based on feedback from Soldiers at an Army training course, ARL researcher Dr. Chad Kessens began to develop software to analyze whether any given robot could g...
Robot teachers invade Chinese kindergartens
Aug 29, 2018 (AFP)
Just under 60 centimetres (two feet) high, the autonomous robot named Keeko has been a hit in several kindergartens, telling stories and challenging children wi...
Activists urge killer robot ban 'before it is too late'
Aug 27, 2018 (AFP)
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 hosti...
UNC builds better particle tracking software using artificial intelligence
Aug 27, 2018 (SPX)
Single-particle tracking involves tracking the motion of individual particles, such as viruses, cells and drug-loaded nanoparticles, within fluids and biologica...
Sony to release AI-infused robotic pups in the US
Aug 23, 2018 (AFP)
The sixth-generation mechanical pup combines robotics with image sensors and artificial intelligence, enabling it to learn behaviors and recognize faces, accord...
Must do better: Japan eyes AI robots in class to boost English
Aug 21, 2018 (AFP)
The education ministry plans a pilot project costing around 250 million yen ($227,000) to improve Japanese students' notoriously weak oral and written English, ...
Robot wars: China shows off automated doctors, teachers and combat stars
Aug 19, 2018 (AFP)
The popular stars of this year's World Robot Conference, which ends Sunday, were undoubtedly the small, amateur-made "battle bots" which smashed, hammered and s...
Soft multi-functional robots get really small and spider-shaped
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
A team of researchers at Harvard's Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEA...
UCLA-developed artificial intelligence device identifies objects at the speed of light
Aug 10, 2018 (SPX)
Numerous devices in everyday life today use computerized cameras to identify objects - think of automated teller machines that can "read" handwritten dollar amo...
A system to synthesize realistic sounds for computer animation
Aug 09, 2018 (SPX)
"There's been a Holy Grail in computing of being able to simulate reality for humans. We can animate scenes and render them visually with physics and computer g...
A kernel of promise in popcorn-powered robots
Aug 07, 2018 (SPX)
You can also eat it with a little butter and salt. "Popcorn-Driven Robotic Actuators," a recent paper co-authored by Steven Ceron, mechanical engineering doctor...
Chip labour: Robots replace waiters in China restaurant
Aug 05, 2018 (AFP)
The futuristic restaurant concept is the latest initiative in Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba's push to modernise service and retail in a country where robotic...
Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems
Aug 03, 2018 (SPX)
But research by Brown University scientists shows that computers fail miserably at a class of tasks that even young children have no problem with: determining w...
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