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Robomorphic Computing: A New Way to Fight Mismatch Between a Robot's Mind and Body

Contemporary robots can move quickly. "The motors are fast, and they're powerful," says Sabrina Neuman.

22 Jan 2021

Artificial Intelligence can Help Consumers Form Accurate News Assessments

Warnings about misinformation are now regularly posted on Twitter, Facebook, and other social media platforms, but not all of these cautions are created equal. New research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute shows that artificial intelligence can help form accurate news assessments -- but only when a news story is first emerging.

22 Jan 2021

2D Camera-Based System for Automated Drone Landing

Initially earmarked for covert military operations, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) or drones have since gained tremendous popularity, which has broadened the scope of their use. In fact, "remote pilot" drones have been largely replaced by "autonomous" drones for applications in various fields.

22 Jan 2021

New Method can Help AI Find Safer Options More Quickly

According to a new study, a novel approach to reason about uncertainty may help artificial (AI) intelligence to identify safer options more quickly, for instance, in autonomous cars.

22 Jan 2021

New Flexible Underwater Robot Propels Itself in Water like Jellyfish

A flexible underwater robot with the ability to propel itself through the water quite similar to the Aurelia aurita jellyfish—nature’s most efficient swimmer—has been developed by researchers from the University of Southampton and the University of Edinburgh.

21 Jan 2021

Bronson Healthcare System Joins with Meduit for AI Revenue Cycle Management Solutions

Meduit, one of the country’s top five healthcare revenue cycle management (RCM) solutions companies, announced today that Bronson Healthcare System has contracted with Meduit for revenue cycle management solutions that leverage artificial intelligence (AI). Meduit will provide its AI RCM expertise to resolve outstanding claims, determine eligibility and deliver documentation for Bronson Healthcare.

21 Jan 2021

Evolutionary Computation Poised to Provide the Next Generation of Advances in AI

From a pair of simple principles of evolution--chance mutation and natural selection--nature has constructed an almost unfathomable richness of life around us. Despite our scientific sophistication, human design and engineering have struggled to emulate nature's techniques and her inexhaustible inventiveness. But that may be changing.

20 Jan 2021

CloudCommerce Launches Artificial Intelligence Advertising Venture

CloudCommerce, Inc. (CLWD), a leading provider of digital advertising solutions, today announced that it has officially launched aiAdvertising, Inc., its wholly owned subsidiary focused on using artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance its successful SWARM solution with the goal of cutting advertising costs by as much as 50%.

20 Jan 2021

Generating Synthetic Objects to Train Robots

Before he joined the University of Texas at Arlington as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering and founded the Robotic Vision Laboratory there, William Beksi interned at iRobot, the world's largest producer of consumer robots (mainly through its Roomba robotic vacuum).

20 Jan 2021

Robot Picks First Items in Less than 24 Hours

Due to the high demand, the German robotics company Magazino extends its Europe-wide road tour into the first half of 2021. The tour provides interested companies in Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Poland and the UK a product demonstration in their warehouse with the mobile picking robot TORU. New technology like intelligent robots helps fashion, e-commerce and 3PL companies to reduce picking- and process costs.

From Magazino GmbH 20 Jan 2021

OKdo and Google Establish Global Distribution Partnership for Coral Platform

OKdo, the global technology company from Electrocomponents plc, has announced that it is now supplying a full portfolio of products from Coral, Google’s platform for edge AI.

19 Jan 2021

WPI Team Invited to Participate in the Final Round of NASA-Sponsored Space Robotics Challenge

A team of robotics students and faculty from Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) has passed the qualification round in the second phase of the NASA-sponsored Space Robotics Challenge (SRC) and is now officially invited to participate in the final competition round, NASA announced today. The WPI team is seeking to program virtual robots to locate and extract valuable resources from the Moon.

18 Jan 2021

FLIR Systems Joins the Exciting Sponsor Line-Up at the Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems

In recent news, The U.S. Army's heavy common ground robot has reached full-rate production, less than a year after FLIR Systems won the contract to deliver the system. Under the current order, FLIR is delivering 34 systems, however, if all options are exercised in the contract, the firm could deliver approximately 350 robots.

18 Jan 2021

First Professional Basketball Team to Deploy Xenex LightStrike Disinfection Robot

In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis; during the third week of the National Basketball Association's 2021 season, the San Antonio Spurs become the only professional basketball team to debut and deploy the World's First-Proven Coronavirus-Killing UV Ray Robot - the Xenex LightStrike.

18 Jan 2021

Study Shows Strategy of Brain to Store Memories is Superior to that of AI

In the past few decades, artificial intelligence (AI) has been excellent at realizing remarkable goals in various fields.

18 Jan 2021

Robotics News

Robomorphic Computing: A New Way to Fight Mismatch Between a Robot's Mind and Body

Artificial Intelligence can Help Consumers Form Accurate News Assessments

2D Camera-Based System for Automated Drone Landing

New Method can Help AI Find Safer Options More Quickly

New Flexible Underwater Robot Propels Itself in Water like Jellyfish

Bronson Healthcare System Joins with Meduit for AI Revenue Cycle Management Solutions

Evolutionary Computation Poised to Provide the Next Generation of Advances in AI

CloudCommerce Launches Artificial Intelligence Advertising Venture

Generating Synthetic Objects to Train Robots

Robot Picks First Items in Less than 24 Hours

OKdo and Google Establish Global Distribution Partnership for Coral Platform

WPI Team Invited to Participate in the Final Round of NASA-Sponsored Space Robotics Challenge

FLIR Systems Joins the Exciting Sponsor Line-Up at the Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems

First Professional Basketball Team to Deploy Xenex LightStrike Disinfection Robot

Study Shows Strategy of Brain to Store Memories is Superior to that of AI

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NASA and IBM Unveil AI Model That Predicts Solar Flares with 16% More Accuracy

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