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CB Insights Recognizes Petuum for Work in AI Standardization and Accessibility

Petuum, Inc., a machine learning (ML) infrastructure platform, was today named to CB Insights’ 2018 AI 100 list. This is the second consecutive year Petuum has been named to the list, which recognizes leading private companies employing artificial intelligence (AI) across a variety of fields, including auto, robotics and healthcare.

13 Dec 2017

Aromyx, Rewired Partner to Explore Novel Applications of Taste and Smell for Smart Robots

Aromyx Corp., maker of the EssenceChip™, the digital platform for measuring taste and scent, today announced a strategic partnership with Rewired, the robotics-focused venture studio and fund based in London and Lausanne, Switzerland.

13 Dec 2017

PolySync Technologies Partners with 10 Organizations Spanning the Autonomous Vehicle Development Industry

PolySync Technologies, Inc.—a company that provides tools and software to enable the development of autonomous vehicle technology — is pursuing strategic partnerships aimed at accelerating the development of safe driverless cars.

13 Dec 2017

Vecna Robotics Awarded First Place in DHL & Dell Robotics Mobile Picking Challenge 2017

Vecna Robotics, a leader in intelligent, next-generation, robotic material handling autonomous ground vehicles (AGVs), was awarded first place in the DHL & Dell Robotics Mobile Picking Challenge 2017. The event was held last week at the DHL Innovation Center in Troisdorf, Germany.

13 Dec 2017

Komatsu Selects NVIDIA as Partner to Bring AI to Jobsites

Komatsu, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of construction and mining equipment, has selected NVIDIA as its partner to bring AI to jobsites, making them safer and more efficient, NVIDIA announced today.

13 Dec 2017

D-Wave Systems Announces Involvement in a Grant-Funded AI Planning Optimization Project

D-Wave Systems Inc., the leader in quantum computing systems and software, today announced its involvement in a grant-funded UK project to improve logistics and planning operations using quantum computing algorithms.

13 Dec 2017

New Drone-Based Method Helps Estimate Crop Damage

An increasing number of agricultural lands in Europe are being damaged by the rising numbers of wild boar (Sus scrofa L.), needing hundreds of thousands of Euros to offset this problem. Now, an innovative drone-based method makes it possible to estimate crop damage in a rapid, objective, and standardized way.

12 Dec 2017

Black Box Recorder Measures a Surgeon's Proficiency in Robotic-Assisted Prostate Cancer Surgery

A new study carried out by Keck Medicine of USC discovers that data obtained from a unique recorder can be used for objectively measuring a surgeon’s proficiency in robotic-assisted prostate cancer surgery.

12 Dec 2017

Leoni Announces Certification as Platinum Partner System Integrator for Cognex

Leoni Engineering Products & Services, Inc., North America's leading automation solution provider in robotic cable management, automation training, and machine vision systems, is pleased to announce its certification as a Platinum Partner System Integrator for Cognex in North America.

11 Dec 2017

'Robot Dog' Improves Medical Training Capabilities of Canine Handlers

Multipurpose canine handlers with U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Special Operations Command, used a robotic canine training mannequin for the first time during hands-on medical training at Stone Bay here between Nov. 30 and Dec. 1.

11 Dec 2017

Researchers Develop Interpretive Technique to Analyze Neural Network’s Mind

Neural networks, which learn to perform computational tasks by analyzing huge sets of training data, have been responsible for the most impressive recent advances in artificial intelligence, including speech-recognition and automatic-translation systems.

11 Dec 2017

Google DeepMind AI Self-Teaches Chess And Defeats Champion In Just Hours

One of the main goals of creating an artificial intelligence is to make a system that is able to self-teach so it can be used in varying situations. In the case of Google’s DeepMind, which is working on just that goal, it has made a huge leap towards the realization of its ambition.

By Luke Edwards 8 Dec 2017