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Deep-Diving Robots Deployed to Measure Carbon Uptake by Marine Life

A fleet of new-generation, deep-diving ocean robots will be deployed in the Southern Ocean, in a major study of how marine life acts as a handbrake on global warming.

4 Dec 2020

Robot Hands One Step Closer to Human Thanks to WMG AI Algorithms

The Shadow Robot Dexterous Hand is a robot hand, with size, shape and movement capabilities similar to those of a human hand. To give the robotic hand the ability to learn how to manipulate objects researchers from WMG, University of Warwick, have developed new AI algorithms.

4 Dec 2020

Robot Operating System Drivers Enhance PI Hexapod Functionality

The Robot Operating System (ROS) by ROS.org is a flexible framework for robotics software development. PI’s release of ROS drivers is the company’s latest addition to its H-811 high performance hexapod 6-axis miniature robot, allowing fast, seamless integration into a ROS environment, with comfortable control using their well-known mechanisms.

From PI (Physik Instrumente) LP 3 Dec 2020

Automated AI Measurement of Abdominal Fat Predicts Heart Disease, Stroke

Automated deep learning analysis of abdominal CT images produces a more precise measurement of body composition and predicts major cardiovascular events, such as heart attack and stroke, better than overall weight or body mass index (BMI), according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

3 Dec 2020

Aurora Mobile Enters into Partnership with Ecovacs Robotics to Improve Smart Home Solutions

Aurora Mobile Limited (“Aurora Mobile” or the “Company”), a leading mobile developer service provider in China, today announced that it has entered into a partnership agreement with Ecovacs Robotics Co., Ltd. (“Ecovacs Robotics”), a leader in smart home robotics.

3 Dec 2020

Baumer Vision Sensors Win Top Award for Helping Robots 'See'

Providing the right vision sensor for robotic applications which provide maximum functional and operational flexibility combined with easy process integration has become an increasingly important focus for sensing and instrumentation specialists BAUMER.

From Baumer 3 Dec 2020

AI-Powered Teaching Assistant Allows Students to Learn at Their Own Pace

SMU Office of Research & Tech Transfer - When Singapore emerged from a two-month long COVID-19-imposed Circuit Breaker (CB), AI Singapore, a national Artificial Intelligence (AI) programme set up by the National Research Foundation (NRF) to anchor deep national capabilities in AI, launched the AI vs COVID-19 Ideation Challenge.

2 Dec 2020

Machine Learning Reduces Computational Time to Study the Dynamics of Photoinduced Processes

Light-induced processes are critical in transformative technologies such as solar energy harvesting, as well as in photomedicine and photoresponsive materials.

2 Dec 2020

New AI Tool to Automatically Calculate the Volume of Cerebral Ventricles on MRIs in Children

Researchers from multiple institutions in North America have developed a fully automated, deep-learning (DL), artificial-intelligence clinical tool that can measure the volume of cerebral ventricles on magnetic resonance images (MRIs) in children within about 25 minutes.

2 Dec 2020

Novel AI Model Could Help Treat Cancer More Efficiently

Healthcare experts who treat patients battling advanced cancers often have to use a mixture of therapies. Besides cancer surgery, the patients are usually treated with medication, radiation therapy, or both.

2 Dec 2020

Amphibious iFROG Robot Leaps Ahead in Ability to Inspect and Maintain Offshore Assets

iFROG, an amphibious robot capable of working in teams to clean and inspect monopiles above water level and up to 60 metres below (~6 bar), has successfully completed trials at the Offshore Renewable Energy (ORE) Catapult’s National Renewable Energy Centre in Blyth.

2 Dec 2020

Why Soft Skills Could Power the Rise of Robot Leaders

What would the world look like if socially-skilled robots stepped into the roles normally reserved for humans?

2 Dec 2020

Cartesiam Transforms Edge AI Development for Industrial IoT

Cartesiam, a company that creates artificial intelligence (AI) software for embedded systems, today announced the availability of NanoEdge™ AI Studio V2, the first integrated development environment (IDE) that simplifies creation of machine learning, inference, and nowclassification libraries for direct implementation on Arm Cortex-M microcontrollers (MCUs).

1 Dec 2020

iCAD Showcases Expanded Suite of Leading Breast Health AI Solutions at Virtual RSNA 2020

iCAD, Inc., a global medical technology leader providing innovative cancer detection and therapy solutions, today announced that the Company is showcasing its leading Breast Health Solutions, including the expanded ProFound AI® platform powered by Panorama, at the 106th Scientific Assembly and virtual Annual Meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA), November 29 – December 5.

1 Dec 2020