Saturday, February 23, 2019

Robopocalypse Report #113

Drones:

The AirBoard agro drone is taking aim at crop dusters.

Astigan has a high flying drone for mapping purposes.

The city of Bangkok is using drones spraying water to fight air pollution.

Drone company DJI will take a huge loss due to employee fraud.

DJI also updated its geofencing for europe after the drone incursions at airports.

Drone temporarily shut down the Dubai airport.

Another drone shutdown the Dublin airport.

A disgruntled employee may have been the Gatwick airport shutdown using a drone.

Elroy's drone is for cargo, not people.

In the Galapagos Islands, drones are dropping poison bombs to kill an invasive rat infestation.

Krossblade has made big improvements on its VTOL drone, the Skyprowler 2.

NASA is progressing on its drone traffic control system for cities.

Newark airport had to shut down due to drone sightings.

Quadsat drones test satellite antennas.

Self Driving Cars:

A new report card on self driving cars is not what it seems.

Self driving cars may not park and will instead cruise around to avoid the parking meter.

How to teach self driving cars how to predict pedestrian movements.

Who owns the geospatial data self driving cars rely on?

Amazon is investing in self driving company, Aurora.

A second Apple employee has been accused of trying to steal self driving car technology and sell it to chinese companies.

Japan wants self driving cars to project which direction they are going on the road.

Mclaren imagines a future of AI copilots for cars.

Musk wants Teslas to automatically call a tow truck when they break.

Musk is promising a truly self driving Tesla in 2020.

The report that Tesla's Autopilot prevents 40% more crashes has been called bunk by the Feds.

A driverless tram will debut in Moscow.

Waymo will build its self driving cars in Michigan.

Waymo might end up repeating Xerox's great mistake.

3d Printing:

There's a new form of 3d printing that creates the entire object at once using light in a resin.

3d printed parts can contaminate experiments.

A man with a 3d printed gun had a hit list of lawmakers.

It had to happen: 3d printed potato products (and their additives).

Orbex has made the world's largest 3d printed rocket engine.

The rocket company, Relativity, has been granted a patent for a software bot driven 3d printing technique for metal.

USC has come up with a new self healing material that can be 3d printed.

Virginia Tech has developed a new 3d printing method for piezoelectric materials.

Robotics:

Amazon has created vests so robots can tell if human workers were there.

Amazon also launched Scout, a six wheeled delivery robot.  Some doubt Scout will make much impact.

Antbot navigates the desert through the polarized light of the sun, without GPS.

A Berkeley robot picker shows potential future for warehouses.

Boaty McBoatface will attempt its transatlantic swim shortly.

Brits have made a robot artist that will attempt to portray people in art.

The polar vortex was great for testing Cassie the robot.

China built a semi submersible robo boat that launches rockets to deploy weather instruments.

Eelyume has a new and improved UUV.

Gatwick airport is getting a robotic car valet.

Some argue humanoid robots ought to be made to move more like people.

Italian researchers have made a robot move like a plant grows.

iRobot has introduced its robotic lawnmower, the Terra.  Terra-izing your lawn and pets tomorrow!

An engineer made a 95% 3d printed robotic lawnmower.

Meet Leonardo: the jumping, flying, walking robot.

Micro robots have been developed that change shape so they can swim through your blood vessels.

MIT developed a robot using touch and sight to play the game of jenga.

MIT has developed a system to allow robots to track people with far, far better precision than in the past.

North Carolina State University researchers 3d printed 'robotic' meshes that are manipulated by magnetic fields.

Nuro received a $1B investment from Softbank.

More on the robot being used for experimental paleontology.

The robot dog learns to stand up after falling.

Another robot was given a self image to model and teach itself.

A robot crawled all over a 737 to inspect it.

A robot squeezes possible nuclear fuel at the Fukushima disaster site.

A robot science museum will be at least partially built by robots.

Snowbot Pro is an autonomous snow clearing robot.

Starship's delivery robot is making deliveries for $2 at George Mason University.

Soft robots have a new perception system inspired by humans.

Researchers are using shape memory polymers to improve stiffness of soft robots.

Meet Sophia.  The Uncanny Valley Robot Companion for kids.

The Titan underwater robot had arms added.

Uber wants self driving scooters and bikes.

A UUV found the sunk USS Hornet.

Vicarious AI has developed a system to allow robots to learn on their own.

Cyborgism:

Artificial skin could help burn victims or more.

A brain implant shows promise for stopping seizures.

Chinese scientists created rats with brain implants - cyborgs - that people can control with their minds.

Columbia University can translate brain signals directly to speech.

Elon Musk is funding a brain computer interface.

Self powered, smart knee replacements are coming.

A teenager built a prosthetic arm from legs.

A new material strengthens like muscles and could lead to better prosthetics.

Software Bots:

Consciousness for AI is the wrong idea, some say.  The Consu would approve.

Facebook's chief scientist says AI work needs a more flexible language than Python.

Is this the real reason tech can't filter out algorithmic bias?

AirHelp has a software bot to help passengers get compensation from the airlines.

America and China are dominating the AI revolution according to the UN.

Amazon has launched the AI RE:mars event.

Apple replaced the Siri team lead as part of an AI shift.

Budweiser is using sensors and software bots to detect when machines need maintenance.

In China, caterers are using software bots to detect unhygienic cooks.

China's use of AI was attacked by George Soros as a mortal danger.

One of the 'godfathers' of deep learning is deeply concerned about how china is using software bots.

The European Union is advocating regulating software bots.

Google thinks AI should be regulated by industry with a few exceptions.

Google's DeepMind beat pro Starcraft players in Starcraft II.  Was it a fair fight?  Or is it showing why AI will clobber humans in such scenarios every time.

Google Assistant is getting more Orwellian and will scan your face for what personalized commands it should be using.

Google is using software bots made using Tensorflow to block spam from gmail.

Google and Microsoft warned AI may do stupid things.

Heathrow Airport is turning to software bots to cut 20 seconds off between each flight.

IBM's software bot was beaten in a debate attempt.

IBM's Watson services will run on any cloud service now.

Kite raised $17M for its AI infused development platform.

Mathematicians are working on creating a framework to make neural net results more predictable.

Measuring software bots ability to learn.

Microsoft is using software bots to blur the background in skype calls.

MIT hopes to unbias software bots.

Nuance has a new technology to make chat bots smarter.

ORNL used its Summit supercomputer to test run a machine learning based climate simulation.

Software bots have gotten to be better bluffers than people are.

Adding a sense of uncertainty to software bots might make them more ethical.

Software bots might be able to prevent dangerous tailored organisms from being created in professional gene tailoring labs.

Software bots are being used to send people to jail?!

A new software bot called ARTIST is being used in material science.

Could software bots help improve care for the British NHS?

Using software bots for error correction in single cell analyses.

Can software bots help doctors and patients have better conversations?

Software bots show potential for triaging x ray pictures.

Will software bots allow us all to be filmmakers?

Could software bots be used to supplement human instructors?

Are software bot powered apps going to make us more creative?  Or less human?

A new software bot system is 4 times better at predicting ovarian cancer survival than other methods.

Some of the most widely used machine learning systems can give misleading results.

A new text generating software bot is too dangerous to release to the public, according its creators at OpenAI.

This software bot generates faces for nonexistent people.

An app run by a software bot has been developed to advise and guide cancer patients.

Software bots developed by German scientists can help with earth science.  Some are not impressed.

Unsupervised software bots end up colluding.

Software bots in China are being used by some teachers to check homework.

A new software bot can tell you are angry in 1.2 seconds.

Software bots are using pictionary to learn how the world works.

Software bots are trying to come up with new flavors for spices.

A new software bot is intended to watch for pathogens.

Software bots are being used to improve weather forecasts.

Software bots are being used to ID microorganisms.

Could software bots develop new diamond derived materials for computer chips?

Are software bots the best way to ID trauma patients who abuse alcohol?

Software bots may be the best at detecting radar signals.

Salvador Dali's 'clone' that is really a software bot will be greeting people at his museum.

Be careful about using bots on Telegram.

The Trump Administration unveiled an order to promote AI development.

Ubisoft and Mozilla announced their coding software bot called Clever-Commit.

Unity Technologies created a game to test its software bots.

The Veteran's Administration wants to use Google's DeepMind to prevent kidney disease.

Automation:

ORNL has used automation extensively to speed the production of Plutonium-238 for use in space probes.

META:

The robopocalypse will be worse for men than women, but also youth and minorities.

25% of all jobs are on the chopping block due to the robopocalypse according to a study.

Under some circumstances, people will allow themselves to be hurt to protect a robot.

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