Airpeak: Sony’s new AI robotics drone division
The field of AI robotics has been recently joined by Sony’s latest division, Airpeak, who’s focus will be on next generation drones. There has been a decline in drone popularity in recent years, mostly due to increasing restrictions in many countries
Walmart to start delivering COVID-19 test kits by drone in El Paso
Walmart is teaming up with several partners to use drones to deliver COVID-19 test kits to homes in Texas. El Paso is one of the cities that will get a pilot program. The El Paso Walmart Supercentre will launch drone deliveries
This self-driving ferry in Norway aims to revolutionise public transport
In the era of the climate crisis, Norway has taken on the challenge of pioneering an electric, self-driving water taxi that hopes to revolutionise urban public transport. The small, carbon neutral water taxis can be summoned by customers at the
Ocado purchases two robotics firms to boost its grocery picking and packing capabilities
Looking to boost efficiency in its warehouses, UK technology firm Ocado has acquired two US robotics startups. Kindred Systems, based in San Francisco, was purchased for $262m and Haddington Dynamics, based in Las Vegas, was purchased for $25m. The aim
How artificial intelligence is changing the beauty industry
Creator of computer vision tool, Nudemeter, Atima Lui is on a mission to help all people of colour find a perfect skin tone shade match for their cosmetics. In 2017, Rihanna introduced her groundbreaking Fenty Beauty line with 40 shades of
Scientists are using AI to map out every tree on earth
For the first time ever, 1.8 billion individual tree canopies have been mapped out by scientists, across millions of kilometres of the Sahel and Sahara regions of West Africa. Using artificial intelligence (AI), researchers analysed a huge database of satellite images,
New AI from Microsoft will auto-caption images for the visually impaired
Microsoft has created a new artificial intelligence (AI) that will automatically caption images in emails and documents for the visually impaired. Using VIsual VOcabulary (VIVO), the machine learns a visual vocabulary by controlling large amounts of paired image-tag data. The AI
Scientists have given robots a ‘brain’ so they can self-repair when they detect pain
Using artificial intelligence (AI), scientists at the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have developed a way for robots to recognise pain and to self-repair when damaged. The scientists adopted a brain-inspired approach when creating the system and as a result, the robot
Could this be China’s new face of self-driving taxis?
Leading Chinese internet-giant Baidu has recently gained acceleration in the automotive industry with their newly rolled out autonomous taxi service, “Apollo Go”. The fleet of 40 Robotaxis provides reservation-free rides to passengers in the Chinese capital – the first in
Artificial Intelligence can now sharpen blurry pictures up to 60 times
Artificial intelligence now has the capacity to unveil the person behind blurred or pixelated images, making it more difficult to disguise a person’s identity. Software engineers have used machine learning to teach a piece of software to adapt image recognition