The Robot That Can Grip Without Touching
ETH Pioneer Fellow Marcel Schuck is developing a robotic gripper that can manipulate small and fragile objects without touching them. The technology is based on sound waves. The small installation that Marcel Schuck has assembled on his workbench is reminiscent of a school physics lesson: an arrangement, comprising two semi-spheres and resembling a pair of …
Using AI To Enrich Digital Maps
A model invented by researchers at MIT and Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) that uses satellite imagery to tag road features in digital maps could help improve GPS navigation. Showing drivers more details about their routes can often help them navigate in unfamiliar locations. Lane counts, for instance, can enable a GPS system to warn …
Darktrace AI Is Cyber ‘Guard Dog’ For Fast-Growing Restaurant Franchise
Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company, has announced that Freddy’s Frozen Custard & Steakburgers, one of America’s favorite restaurant chains, has implemented Darktrace as its go-to security solution for detecting and responding to advanced attacks and insider threats. Based in Wichita, Kansas, Freddy’s has over 375 locations across the U.S. and Dubai and is …
U.S. Army And Air Force Team Up For Multi-Domain Operations
U.S. Air Force F-35s were integrated with the U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS), providing an airborne sensor capability to successfully detect, track and intercept near simultaneous air-breathing threats in a test at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. The December 2019 test marked the first time F-35s were used …
ABB And Ericsson Pave The Way For Digital Transformation Of Industries
ABB and Ericsson, together with Swisscom, showcase for the first time, how easily and effectively robots can be controlled over wide distances utilizing the real-time communication capabilities of 5G. Sami Atiya, President of ABB Robotics and Discrete Automation, and Börje Ekholm, CEO of Ericsson During WEF 2020, world leaders will witness the potential of no-latency …
Azure Data Explorer and Stream Analytics For Anomaly Detection
Anomaly detection plays a vital role in many industries across the globe, such as fraud detection for the financial industry, health monitoring in hospitals, fault detection and operating environment monitoring in the manufacturing, oil and gas, utility, transportation, aviation, and automotive industries. Anomaly detection is about finding patterns in data that do not conform to …
Darktrace Cyber AI Distinguishes Real Emails From ‘Digital Fakes’ Where Humans Cannot
Darktrace, the world’s leading cyber AI company, has today announced that, due to customer demand, it has expanded its platform to cover additional email systems including G Suite and Microsoft Exchange. Antigena Email, launched in February 2019 for Office 365, has proven a powerful defense against a wide variety of ‘digital fakes’ as well as …
Counting Antarctic Penguins With AI
Antarctica’s penguin populations are at serious risk. According to a 2019 study from the British Antarctic Survey, the world’s largest Emperor penguin colony has suffered unprecedented breeding issues for the past three years, is uniquely vulnerable to ongoing and projected climate change, and could virtually disappear by the year 2100. In order to study penguin populations, researchers …
Want To Use AutoML Tables From A Jupyter Notebook? Here’s How
While there’s no doubt that machine learning (ML) can be a great tool for businesses of all shapes and sizes, actually building ML models can seem daunting at first. Cloud AutoML—Google Cloud’s suite of products—provides tools and functionality to help you build ML models that are tailored to your specific needs, without needing deep ML …
Supporting AI Skills Training In Molenbeek, Belgium
MolenGeek started in 2015 in Molenbeek, Belgium, as a coding school for anyone to learn digital skills. But unlike many other schools, MolenGeek is driven by a social mission of fostering inclusion, integration and community development in this culturally diverse suburb of Brussels. In five years, it’s become a co-working space for young people from …