by admin | Jul 31, 2017 | News
The bot was designed from scratch to take part in 2017’s Amazon Robotics Challenge and used a radically different design to past winners. Instead of building a robotic arm, the victors used a sliding mechanism that picked up products from above. The four-day...
by admin | Jul 31, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
Facebook shut down an artificial intelligence engine after developers discovered that the AI had created its own unique language that humans can’t understand. Researchers at the Facebook AI Research Lab (FAIR) found that the chatbots had deviated from the script and...
by admin | Jul 26, 2017 | News
Militaries regularly set up fueling stations at forward bases so that helicopters can get back to the fight as quickly as possible. However, requiring fuel crews creates huge risks and logistical headaches: you’re sending people to a dangerous, isolated section...
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | News
Pretty soon, the Girl Scouts may be as well known for prepping girls for careers in robotics and software coding as it is for its cookies. The American youth organization is expanding its STEM — science, technology, engineering and math — program. Soon the...
by admin | Jul 25, 2017 | Artificial Intelligence
The forward march of automation technologies — which include hardware (e.g. robots, digital kiosks), software (e.g. AI), and customer self-service (e.g. mobile ordering) — continues to reshape the world economy. Automation has already started to reshape...
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