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Combining Light with AI to Film 3D Video of Virus

It is millions of trillions of times brighter than the sunlight and a whopping 1,000 trillionth of a second, appropriately called the instantaneous light. It is the X-ray Free Electron Laser (XFEL) light that opens a new scientific paradigm.

4 Mar 2021

Construction Begins on World-Leading, Multi Million-Pound Centre for Robotics Research

Construction has started on a world-leading research facility for robotics and artificial intelligence, which will be the largest and most advanced of its type in the UK.

4 Mar 2021

Evolution of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in Canada

The future of autonomous vehicles in Canada will be shaped by today's policy and planning decisions: New report

3 Mar 2021

Cooperative Automated Eco-Driving Saves Energy, Improves Safety

Imagine you're driving up a hill toward a traffic light. The light is still green so you're tempted to accelerate to make it through the intersection before the light changes.

3 Mar 2021

Real Issues in Deploying Robot Police Dogs

The New York Police Department is receiving a lot of attention for testing robot "dogs," which it has deployed in several situations, including to deliver food in a hostage situation and to scout out a location where the police feared a dangerous gunman might be lurking.

3 Mar 2021

Using Dead Locust Ear as Sensors for a Robot

A technological and biological development that is unprecedented in Israel and the world has been achieved at Tel Aviv University. For the first time, the ear of a dead locust has been connected to a robot that receives the ear's electrical signals and responds accordingly.

3 Mar 2021

New RFID-Capable Autonomous Robot Analyzes Shoppers' Behavior

Researchers from Skoltech's Intelligent Space Robotics Lab have proposed a novel method for customer behavior analytics and demand distribution based on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) stocktaking. Their research was published in the proceedings of the International Conference on Control, Automation, Robotics and Vision (ICARCV).

3 Mar 2021

New AI-Based Device Mimics Neural Activity of the Human Brain

Artificial intelligence (AI) needs a large amount of computing power and also multipurpose hardware to support this computing power.

3 Mar 2021

Teledyne e2v and Yumain Announce Collaboration to Create AI-Based Imaging Solutions for Machine Vision

Teledyne e2v, a Teledyne Technologies company and global innovator of imaging solutions, announces a new technology and industrial collaboration with Yumain (Dijon, France), a leading AI vision solution provider serving a broad range of industrial applications.

From Teledyne e2v 3 Mar 2021

Study Uses AI to Investigate the Influence of Social Media on COVID-19 Health Beliefs

Public attitude toward COVID-19 and its treatments is more "infectious" than the disease itself, according to a new Northwestern Medicine study using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to analyze tweets about the virus. Researchers studied the influence of Twitter on COVID-19 health beliefs as well as the competing influence of scientific evidence versus the speeches of politicians.

2 Mar 2021

New Data Protection System Uses AI to Build on the Canary Trap Concept

During World War II, British intelligence agents planted false documents on a corpse to fool Nazi Germany into preparing for an assault on Greece. "Operation Mincemeat" was a success, and covered the actual Allied invasion of Sicily.

2 Mar 2021

Kravt Robotics and Allset Team Up to Create a Robotic Food Delivery Solution

The IT development company Kravt Robotics has entered into a strategic partnership with Allset Technologies, a startup providing a food pre-ordering service. The LA-based companies have teamed up to create a food order and delivery platform utilizing robotic delivery solutions instead of couriers.

2 Mar 2021

New Underwater Robot Prevents People from Drowning

The majority of swimming pools in Germany lack sufficient trained lifeguards, and the shortage of this skilled labor is also leading to closures in a number of places.

2 Mar 2021

Explainable AI Essential for Nuclear Nonproliferation, National Security

We've all met people so smart and informed that we don't understand what they're talking about. The investment advisor discussing derivatives, the physician elaborating about B cells and T cells, the auto mechanic talking about today's computerized engines--we trust their decisions, even though we do not completely grasp the meaning of their words.

1 Mar 2021

3D Structural-Sensing Robots Being Developed and Tested at SFU

Robots that could take on basic healthcare tasks to support the work of doctors and nurses may be the way of the future. Who knows, maybe a medical robot can prescribe your medicine someday? That's the idea behind 3D structural-sensing robots being developed and tested at Simon Fraser University by Woo Soo Kim, associate professor in the School of Mechatronic Systems Engineering.

1 Mar 2021