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Huawei Oil & Gas Virtual Summit 2020 Explores Application of 5G, AI, and Big Data

Today, the Huawei Oil & Gas Virtual Summit 2020 — exploring 'Data to Barrel' — was successfully hosted online.

17 Jul 2020

Mobile App Uses Artificial Intelligence to Detect Sidewalk Hazards

As part of a year-long project with Carnegie Mellon University's Master of Software Engineering (MSE) program, pathVu is developing pathCollect. pathCollect is a mobile app that will use machine learning and artifici...

16 Jul 2020

New Hearwear Technology Launched with Mask Setting, AI Assistant and Remote Care Features

Introducing Styletto X hearing aids from Signia: Delivering great speech understanding and instant 24/7 support in a consumer-preferred design.

16 Jul 2020

USC Scientists Use Improv Dialogues to Produce Engaging Chatbots

What would conversations with Alexa be like if she was a regular at The Second City? Jonathan May, research lead at the USC Information Sciences Institute (ISI) and research assistant professor of computer science at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering, is exploring this question with Justin Cho, an ISI programmer analyst and prospective USC Viterbi Ph.D. student, through their Selected Pairs Of Learnable ImprovisatioN (SPOLIN) project.

16 Jul 2020

New Technology to Help Self-Driving Cars Better Detect Nearby Fast-Moving Objects

A self-driving car has a hard time recognizing the difference between a toddler and a brown bag that suddenly appears into view because of limitations in how it senses objects using lidar.

16 Jul 2020

Military Robotics And Autonomous Systems Conference Announced as Fully Interactive Virtual Meeting

With the continued uncertainty surrounding large gatherings in the UK, SMi Group have made the decision to turn the 3rd annual Military Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference on the 2nd-3rd September 2020 into a fully interactive virtual meeting.

16 Jul 2020

MIT Engineers Envision Robots More Like Home Helpers

Wouldn't we all appreciate a little help around the house, especially if that help came in the form of a smart, adaptable, uncomplaining robot? Sure, there are the one-trick Roombas of the appliance world.

16 Jul 2020

Exploring Complex Oceanic Phenomena Using AI Technologies

Large-scale oceanic phenomena are complicated and often involve many natural processes. Tropical instability wave (TIW) is one of these phenomena.

16 Jul 2020

New App Uses AI Algorithms to Combat Trolling and Bullying Online

Computer scientists from Aston University, Birmingham, have launched an app that uses novel artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms to combat trolling and bullying online.

16 Jul 2020

Artificial Neural Network-Based Technique to Optimize Complex Systems

At École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), researchers have developed a new technique to automatically work out the data that must be fed to a complex system such as a fiber-optic network to achieve the preferred outcome.

16 Jul 2020

New Robotic Prosthetic Leg is Quieter and More Energy Efficient

Researchers have developed a prototype of robotic prosthetic leg that provides a more natural gait, works noiselessly and more efficiently when compared to other kinds of designs.

16 Jul 2020

Sensory Integrated Robotic System Mimics Biological Neural Networks

Researchers have created a sensory integrated artificial brain system that simulates biological neural networks, which can work using a power-efficient neuromorphic processor such as Intel’s Loihi chip.

16 Jul 2020

Tethered Unmanned Aerial Vehicles can Improve Cellular Phone and Internet Networks

The use of tethered unmanned aerial vehicles (TUAVs) has been modeled as a powerful new tool for improving cellular phone and internet networks. When employed as flying base stations with a cable connection, multirotor drones promise to quickly ramp up coverage, increase the efficiency of urban networks and provide much needed access in remote rural areas.

16 Jul 2020

Artificial Intelligence and Drones can Help Conserve Farmland Bird Species

Mechanical operations, like sowing and plowing, inadvertently destroy a huge number of ground-nests of farmland birds every spring.

15 Jul 2020

Robot with Built-in Humanoid Jaws Could Help Develop Medicated Chewing Gum

Researchers have recognized that medicated chewing gum is a novel, sophisticated drug delivery approach. However, at present, there is no gold standard for in vitro testing of drug release from chewing gum.

15 Jul 2020