Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category
Jul 2, 2020
Hollywood Is Banking That a Robot Named Erica Can Be the Next Movie Star
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: entertainment, finance, robotics/AI
She can’t get sick or be late to the set, and her hair and makeup needs are minimal: Her name is Erica, and Hollywood is hoping that a sophisticated robot can be its next big star. The synthetic actor has been cast in “b,” a $70 million science-fiction movie which producer Sam Khoze describes as “a James Bond meets Mission Impossible story with heart.”
Scribe Tarek Zohdy (“1st Born”), says, the story is about scientists who create an AI robot named Erica who quickly realize the danger of this top-secret program that is trying to perfect a human through a non-human form.
Variety caught up with the filmmakers Zohdy and Khoze to discuss “b” the $70 million film that plans to finish shooting next year, after a director and human star have been brought on.
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Jul 2, 2020
Zynq UltraScale+ Arm FPGA FZ3 Deep Learning Accelerator Card Supports Baidu Brain AI Tools
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
MYIR’s FZ3 card is a deep learning accelerator board powered by Xilinx Zynq UltraScale+ ZU3EG Arm FPGA MPSoC delivering up to 1.2TOPS for artificial intelligence products based on Baidu Brain AI open platform.
The FZ3 card also features 4GB RAM, 8GB eMMC flash, USB 2.0 & USB 3.0 ports, Gigabit Ethernet, DisplayPort (DP) output, PCIe interface, MIPI-CSI and more.
MYIR FZ3 card specifications:
Jul 2, 2020
Tesla to Build Mobile RNA Microfactories for CureVac’s COVID-19 Vaccine
Posted by Lon Anderson in categories: biotech/medical, Elon Musk, robotics/AI
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Tesla, the electric car company founded and run by Elon Musk, is building mobile molecular printers to assist Germany’s CureVac in manufacturing its experimental COVID-19 vaccine. Musk tweeted the information on Wednesday, July 1.
The “printers” are portable, automated messenger RNA (mRNA) production units, which Musk referred to as “RNA microfactories.”
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Jul 2, 2020
Artist uses AI to create stunning realistic portraits of historical figures
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Is this artificial intelligence or a time machine?
Bas Uterwijk, an Amsterdam-based artist, is using AI to create extremely lifelike photographs of historical figures and monuments such as the Statue of Liberty, artist Vincent van Gogh, George Washington and Queen Elizabeth I.
Using a program called Artbreeder, which is described as “deep learning software,” Uterwijk builds his photographs based on a compilation of portraits, reports the Daily Mail. The program pinpoints common facial features and photograph qualities to produce an image.
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Jul 1, 2020
Artificial intelligence helping NASA design the new Artemis moon suit
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: robotics/AI, space travel
Last fall, NASA unveiled the new suits that Artemis astronauts will wear when they take humanity’s first steps on the lunar surface for the first time since way back in 1972. The look of the A7LB pressure suit variants that accompanied those earlier astronauts to the Moon, and later to Skylab, has since gone on to signify for many the definitive, iconic symbol of humanity’s most ambitiously-realized space dreams.
With Artemis’ 2024 launch target approaching, NASA’s original Moon suit could soon be supplanted in the minds of a new generation of space dreamers with the xEMU, the first ground-up suit made for exploring the lunar landscape since Apollo 17’s Eugene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt took humanity’s last Moon walk (to date). Unlike those suits, the xEMU’s design is getting an assist from a source of “brain” power that simply wasn’t available back then: artificial intelligence.
Jul 1, 2020
New mathematical idea reins in AI bias towards making unethical and costly commercial choices
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: business, mathematics, robotics/AI
Researchers from the University of Warwick, Imperial College London, EPFL (Lausanne) and Sciteb Ltd have found a mathematical means of helping regulators and business manage and police Artificial Intelligence systems’ biases towards making unethical, and potentially very costly and damaging commercial choices—an ethical eye on AI.
Jul 1, 2020
Epic Cycling | Truly Unique Bicycle that Walks
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: media & arts, robotics/AI, transportation
In today’s video I want to show you symbiosis of bicycle and walking robotic creature Strandbeest!
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U.S. researchers have designed a new robotic system that kills the vast majority of surface microorganisms, using UV light.
Jul 1, 2020
Princeton Researchers Use AI To Create Radar That Sees Around Corners
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Tesla provided the first clues that radar could be trained to do more than just detect objects straight ahead. After the death of Joshua Brown on a Florida highway in 2016, Tesla tore up the Autopilot software created by MobilEye and pivoted from a camera-based to a radar-based system. In the process, it learned how to bounce radar signals under the car directly ahead to “see” what the next car in line was doing. That way, if a truck or SUV is blocking the view of the road ahead, a Tesla with the updated system could still detect if a car further up the road slowed or braked unexpectedly and take appropriate action.
