AI Technology & Industry Review
Interactive sensors and actuators, with the “intelligence” of sensing the environment and responding accordingly, are essential for human-machine interaction. However, it remains a critical challenge for a long time.
Facing a shortage of seasonal workers and rising labour costs, kiwifruit growers may get some relief from robots equipped with a new AI-powered fruit detection system.
Cruciform Thin-film Microrobot (CTM) could realize double-modal motion and environmental adaptive functions through a programmable external magnetic field.
The Synced Machine Intelligence Awards 2019 focus is on “the power of industry,” and the selection process keyed in on AI products, application cases and industry landings, with choices based on verifiable industry performance.
“We’ve made huge progress, much more than even my friends and I expected a few years ago. But (the progress) is mostly about perception, things like computer vision and speech recognition and synthesis of some things in natural processing. We’re still far from human capabilities.”
SoftBank-owned robot-maker Boston Dynamics is once again wowing the internet. Its latest creation is a robodog named SpotMini which can deftly open doors with its head-mounted gripper arm…
In the article “Memory, attention, sequences”, the author predicts that future work on neural networks will emphasize understanding complex spatio-temporal data from the real world, which is highly contextual and noisy.