Drones:
Australian researchers are using drones to sample whale snot.
Brazilian farmers have started using drones to maximize crop yields.
British drone operators will need to pass a test and get a license.
British company, SenSat, set a new record for a civilian drone operation beyond line of sight.
British company, SenSat, set a new record for a civilian drone operation beyond line of sight.
In China, food delivery drones have started work.
The FAA wants drones to have visible license plates.
A science panel is advising the FAA to loosen drone restrictions.
A science panel is advising the FAA to loosen drone restrictions.
Flock, an insurance startup for drones, has just received another round of funding.
A drone was used to save a Hawaiian man's life from the volcanic eruption there.
This drone was designed to detect violence in crowds.
A drone has helped Mexican police reduce crime.
This drone was designed to detect violence in crowds.
A drone has helped Mexican police reduce crime.
Finland successfully tested a drone traffic management system.
GE launched a subsidiary to help management large drone fleets.
Italian and Swiss researchers have built the smallest autonomous drone to date.
A drone will be used to inspect power plants in Italy.
Illinois has a bill submitted to allow law enforcement to use drones more.
Students in India have developed a rapid response, first aid drone.
An MIT algorithm will allow better data updates with the most up to date data for drones.
A Seattle man crashed his drone into the Space Needle and is not suffering the consequences.
UAVs are being used to detect particulates in the Arctic.
Workhorse Group is delivering items via drone in Loveland, OH.
The Zephyr UAV is being worked on.
Zipline is delivering blood by drone in Africa.
Self Driving Cars:
Here's a snarky glossary to the self driving car terminology.
Self driving cars must reduce traffic fatalities by 75% if they want to stay on the road.
Self driving cars could reshape cities.
US Senators are looking into self driving car safety.
Here come self driving scooters.
AAA says Americans still don't trust self driving cars.
Apple signed a deal with Volkswagen (and other German automakers) to work on self driving cars.
Byton unveiled its second self driving, eletric car prototype.
Cadillacs will be getting some self driving capabilities in 2020.
California will allow passengers to be picked up by fully autonomous cars.
Some are rather unhappy with California's regulation of self driving cars.
A company is 'finally' grading self driving cars on safety.
Daimler has unveiled its electric trucks with self driving capabilities.
GM has settled with a motorcyclist that was clipped by a Cruise self driving car.
Softbank invested $2.2 billion into GM's Cruise and its self driving car tech. Japan may get self driving cars for the Olympics as part of the Softbank investment.
Ford is running a faux test of how people will interact with self driving delivery vehicles, but the car really isn't self driving.
Land Rover is developing self driving capabilities for off road.
A Tesla on Autopilot crashed into a parked police car.
Consumer groups are demanding the FTC investigate the Tesla Autopilot.
Tesla's Autopilot is getting an update soon. Supposedly, in August, Tesla will enable more self driving capabilities in Autopilot.
Uber's software had its automatic object avoidance software switched off by design when it hit and killed the woman in Arizona. This was turned off because it kept getting false positives. The NTSB is blaming of the turn off of that system for the crash. The system DID detect the woman 6 seconds prior to the crash. Uber has shut down its Arizona ops. Uber is moving its ops back to Pittsburgh. The mayor there had no idea Uber was coming back.
Uber is signaling it might end up using Waymo self driving tech. Given their own abysmal record, that would probably be a good idea.
Waymo is ordering up to 62,000 Chrysler Hybrid Pacifica Minivans for conversion into self driving cars.
Waymo wants to take its self driving cars to europe to act as taxis, but potentially under another name.
Waymo wants to take its self driving cars to europe to act as taxis, but potentially under another name.
The a week in the future of cars is funky.
3d Printing:
A 3d bioprinter from UCLA.
A 3d bioprinter can now print human corneas.
Flowbuilt Manufacturing can make 3d printed shoes much faster.
3d printed...chinese food?
Sandia National Labs is 3d printing telescopes.
A startup is offering continuous carbon fibre 3d printing.
The University of New South Wales got a $3M grant to work on 3d metal printing.
Robotics:
An autonomous window cleaning bot.
Disney has developed a robot that can backflip.
Some are saying not to expect farm robotics any time soon.
The University of Hong Kong has developed a new, motorless actuator for robots.
Japanese researchers have grown 'muscles' for robots.
The International Maritime Organization is looking to regulate autonomous ships.
The MITO underwater bot is the latest to come out.
Nissan built a robot that can mark up sporting fields, like soccer fields, autonomously.
Robots could have senses far beyond people do.
The race to mine the ocean floor with robots has begun.
Robots are coming for the weeds.
There is even a robot pollinator.
UCSB has developed a soft robot actuator.
Using shape memory alloys as actuators.
Softbank's Pepper robot is a cybersecurity mess.
Spyce, the automated kitchen equipped restaurant, opened for business on May 3rd.
Cyborgism:
MIT found a way to wireless power medical implants.
Cyborgism:
MIT found a way to wireless power medical implants.
Software Bots:
Amazon's Alexa had a weird coincidence where it listened to, recorded and sent a conversation it heard.
A version of Alexa is being targeted for software developers.
How Canada became important in the AI development race.
China is using software bots to see if its students are paying attention.
Cortana can be used to hack PCs.
DeepMind has been watching Youtube videos to learn how to beat Atari games.
Facebook has a bot that turns whistles into musical compositions.
If you think you have fake news now...
Google's Assistant fired a gun. Sorta.
Google's Duplex assistant able to interact with people might actually be breaking the law.
Will Google keep its promises to make only ethical AI?
Google's software bot to translate languages will now do so offline, at least for 59 of them.
Will Google keep its promises to make only ethical AI?
Google's software bot to translate languages will now do so offline, at least for 59 of them.
IBM's Watson Health just had massive layoffs.
Intel is promising its ASIC chips for AI will arrive in 2019.
Microsoft bought an AI company to improve Cortana's conversational skills.
Microsoft also has the equivalent of Google's Duplex. It's called Xiaoice and only available in China.
A New York bill intended to fight deepfake software bots is getting opposed by entertainment companies.
NIST ran a study that found facial recognition experts worked far better with an AI partner.
Nvidia has developed a bot that can learn by watching people.
Physicists are using software bots to assemble atoms.
Samsung wants AI on all its devices by 2020.
Software bots might be useful for IDing useful nanoparticles.
Software bots are being used to design replacement teeth.
Software bots are now being used to help develop solar panels.
Can software bots predict violent protests by analyzing twitter?
Software bots can now detect movement through walls.
A software bot can transfer human expressions from one video to another.
Software bots are being to detect and ID animals seen in camera traps.
A software bot created a movie starring a real actor.
A discussion of software bots.
Ubisoft has an AI helper for its games.
Virtual assistants could be finally arriving.
Zimbabwe is starting to use Chinese facial recognition software.
META:
Welcome to Silicon Valley's version of Transhumanism.
Someone is trying to trick registrants at the NIPS 2018 conference into registering at the wrong site.
Does the US need an AI strategy like Europe et al? Supposedly, the US is pursuing a very aggressive AI strategy.
The Toronto Declaration is an attempt to get software bots to not discriminate and respect human rights.
The fear of automation is one of the driving forces of the recent strikes in Las Vegas.
Thousands of AI researchers are boycotting a new Nature journal.
Eric Schmidt calls shenanigans on Elon Musk's declarations about AI.
Software bots/AI are being deployed in stupid ways in companies by management that doesn't understand it.
The robopocalypse came for warehouse workers in China.
Software bots/AI are being deployed in stupid ways in companies by management that doesn't understand it.
The robopocalypse came for warehouse workers in China.
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