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Caregivers for Dementia Patients Design Robots to Reduce Emotional Stress and Handle Daily Tasks

Caregivers for Dementia Patients Design Robots to Reduce Emotional Stress and Handle Daily Tasks. For a long time, roboticists have aimed to design robots that can help people with dementia.

20 Mar 2019

RightHand Robotics Collaborates with PALTAC to Introduce New Piece-Picking Solution to the Japanese Market

RightHand Robotics, a leader in providing integrated robotic piece-picking solutions, has partnered with PALTAC CORPORATION, Japan’s largest wholesaler of consumer packaged goods. The collaboration will introduce RightHand’s newest piece-picking solution to the Japanese market, with multiple workstations to be installed in PALTAC’s newest facility, RDC Saitama, opening later in 2019 in Sugito, Saitama Prefecture, Japan.

20 Mar 2019

Massive Analytic Wins DASA Competition to Help Win the Invisible Battlespace

Private UK based artificial intelligence pioneer, Massive Analytic Limited, has won a Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA) competition to investigate the application of its patented leading edge AI technology, Artificial Precognition, to identify new ways to enable defence and security forces to effectively conduct electromagnetic (EM) operations across multiple domains.

From Massive Analytic Limited 20 Mar 2019

New Robotic Arms Gain Flexibility of Elephant’s Trunk with Artificial “Muscles”

In contrast to traditional robot arms with their hinged and swivel joints, the flexible arms being created by Professor Stefan Seelecke and his research team at Saarland University are built using “muscles” made from shape-memory wires that possess the potential to twist in nearly any direction and to coil themselves around corners.

19 Mar 2019

Older Adults with Cognitive Impairments Benefit from Robot-Guided Video Game

Wearing watch-style devices on their wrists, two residents of Elmcroft Senior Living sat next to one another facing a huge screen, lifting their hands together as these devices managed the avatars in front of them.

19 Mar 2019

UvA Professors Launch AI Research Lab to Use AI for Medical Image Analysis

Cees Snoek and Marcel Worring, UvA professors, are launching a new public-private research lab in collaboration with scientists from the Inception Institute of Artificial Intelligence Ltd. from the United Arab Emirates, headed by Professor Ling Shao.

19 Mar 2019

New AI-Based System Developed to Detect and Assess Noisy Activities from Social Networks Data

Scientists from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM) have designed a system of text analysis that, applied to comments posted in social media, is able to automatically pull up grievances on noise pollution and categorize them based on their origin.

19 Mar 2019

XACT Robotics Expands Patents Portfolio to Include Robotic System in Ultrasound-Guided Interventional Procedures

XACT Robotics Ltd. today announced that the European Patent Office will grant a patent expanding the Company’s patent portfolio to include the use of its robotic system in ultrasound-guided interventional procedures.

19 Mar 2019

Silicon Valley-Based Food Robotics Company Expands Health Facility Footprint

Silicon Valley-based food robotics company Chowbotics created Sally the Robot to serve nutritious food anytime, anywhere. By partnering with Chowbotics to bring Sally on campus, hospitals around the country are expanding foodservice options, offering vibrant, forward-thinking meals made on-demand that can be personalized to meet each individual's dietary needs.

19 Mar 2019

Interface System Using Augmented Reality Technology Could Help People with Severe Motor Impairments

An interface system that employs augmented reality technology could assist individuals with extreme motor impairments to operate a humanoid robot to feed themselves and carry out daily personal care tasks like applying skin lotion and scratching an itch.

18 Mar 2019

A New Electronic Circuit to Solve Complex Problems and Transform AI Technology

A research team at Politecnico di Milano has created an electronic circuit that can solve a system of linear equations in a single operation in the timescale of few tens of nanoseconds.

18 Mar 2019

Hannover Messe 2019: AI-Based Dialog Systems for Business

The Fraunhofer Institute for Computer Graphics Research IGD will be showcasing Data@Hand at the 2019 Hanover Trade Fair, which is a simple automated data analysis technology for a range of application settings.

18 Mar 2019

New Robot Hand Can Grasp Wide Array of Delicate and Heavy Objects

Five decades ago, the first industrial robot arm (called Unimate) assembled a basic breakfast of coffee, toast, and champagne. While it might have appeared like a seamless achievement, every movement and placement was coded with meticulous consideration.

18 Mar 2019

Artificial Intelligence Used for Examining Archaeological Sites

An experimental research led by scientist Abel Moclán, from the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), has recently been published in the Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences journal, which suggests a new technique to comprehend how the faunal assemblages were created in archaeological sites, and how they could have interacted with groups of carnivores and humans in the places they occupied.

18 Mar 2019

Research Report on Global AI in Games Market 2019–2023

Artificial intelligence (AI), sometimes called machine intelligence, is intelligence demonstrated by machines, in contrast to the natural intelligence displayed by humans and other animals.

18 Mar 2019