
Cable, Components And Critical Space Exploration
ABB provides Ty-Rap™ cable ties for NASA Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mission. As NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover begins exploring its new planetary home after landing on February 18, 2021, it’s operating with the world’s most advanced technology while being equipped with Ty-Rap™ cable ties from ABB, the same ties that are widely used on earth. …

2021 Habitat Challenge Launches To Advance Embodied AI Research
Facebook AI is excited to launch the third Habitat Challenge, an open research initiative that invites AI experts around the world to teach machines to navigate real-world environments. The Habitat Challenge 2021, implemented in collaboration with Georgia Tech, asks participants to train embodied agents to perform PointGoal navigation (“Go 5 meters north, 3 meters west”) …

Machine Learning Blazes Path To Reliable Near-term Quantum Computers
Using machine learning to develop algorithms that compensate for the crippling noise endemic on today’s quantum computers offers a way to maximize their power for reliably performing actual tasks, according to a new paper. “The method, called noise-aware circuit learning, or NACL, will play an important role in the quest for quantum advantage, when a …

With Perseverance, MIT Teams Prepare For Mars Rover Landing
On Thursday, NASA’s newest Mars rover, Perseverance, is scheduled to touch down on the surface of the Red Planet following a nail-biting entry and descent sequence vividly known as the “seven minutes of terror.” If all goes according to plan, the car-sized explorer will blast safely down into Jezero Crater, a 28-mile-wide impact basin that …

Build A Chatbot Resume On Google Cloud
Getting the job you want requires you to stand out to potential employers—especially in the current job market. Recently I did just that by building a conversational chatbot on Google Cloud that answers questions about my professional experience (plus some surprises). Not only did I stand out, but I learned how to build and host …

AI Gets Better Every Day. Here’s What That Means For Stopping Hate Speech
The numbers Facebook released today in our latest Community Standards Enforcement Report are evidence of the many ways technology is delivering the kind of progress our world demands. In the final three months of 2020, we did better than ever before to proactively detect hate speech and bullying and harassment content — 97 percent of …

OLA To Deploy ABB Robotics And Automation Solutions At Its Mega-Factory For Electric Scooters
ABB’s remote digital connectivity and monitoring technology will ride on Ola’s proprietary AI engine and tech stack. Ola, one of the leading mobility companies in the world, today announced that it has selected ABB as one of its key partners for robotics and automation solutions for its mega-factory in India that will roll out the …

Qualcomm Announces Next-Generation 5G RF Front End Solutions, Featuring Use Of Artificial Intelligence For Sleeker, High Performance 10 Gigabit 5G Devices
What’s New: Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. today announced its next generation of Qualcomm® RF Front End (RFFE) solutions for high-performance 5G mobile devices. The solutions are designed to support advanced performance and power-efficiency capabilities in the newly announced Qualcomm® Snapdragon™ X65 and X62 5G Modem-RF Systems – bringing together modem, RF transceiver, RF front-end components with …

A Language Learning System That Pays Attention — More Efficiently Than Ever Before
Human language can be inefficient. Some words are vital. Others, expendable. Reread the first sentence of this story. Just two words, “language” and “inefficient,” convey almost the entire meaning of the sentence. The importance of key words underlies a popular new tool for natural language processing (NLP) by computers: the attention mechanism. When coded into …