Archive for the ‘robotics/AI’ category: Page 1551
Mar 13, 2021
Waymo study claims robot drivers would prevent many fatal crashes
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
Mar 12, 2021
How to Spot Deepfakes? Look at Light Reflection in the Eyes
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
Summary: A newly developed AI tool can identify “deepfakes” of faces by examining the light reflection in the eyes of the images. The system is 94% accurate at detecting deepfakes.
Source: University ay Buffalo.
University at Buffalo computer scientists have developed a tool that automatically identifies deepfake photos by analyzing light reflections in the eyes.
Mar 12, 2021
“Photonic Sunflower” – Controlled by Light Alone, New Smart Materials Twist, Bend and Move
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, solar power, sustainability
Technology paves way for intelligent solar cells, other highly efficient devices programmed at the macro and nano scale.
Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have created light-activated composite devices able to execute precise, visible movements and form complex three-dimensional shapes without the need for wires or other actuating materials or energy sources. The design combines programmable photonic crystals with an elastomeric composite that can be engineered at the macro and nano scale to respond to illumination.
Mar 12, 2021
Facebook’s next big AI project is training its machines on users’ public videos
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: futurism, robotics/AI
Facebook has announced a new AI project called Learn From Video, which will use public Facebook videos to train its machine learning models. The company is vague about future applications, but it says such models could be used to improve captions, search functions, and much more.
Mar 12, 2021
H.A.L.O. AI Completes XPRIZE Competition as Finalist with Groundbreaking Unification of Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
Posted by Paul Battista in categories: biotech/medical, quantum physics, robotics/AI
P.e.a.c.e!nc. is proud to announce the conclusion as finalists in the $500k Pandemic Response Challenge sponsored by Cognizant with Landmark AI Experiment.
Mar 12, 2021
NASA Mars scientists spur girls to ‘reach for the stars’
Posted by Alberto Lao in categories: alien life, robotics/AI
Space roboticist Vandi Verma, who operates the Perseverance—the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world—as it roams Mars looking for signs of ancient microbial life, said unconscious bias was also a factor in shaping aspirations. “Don’t make assumptions about what a child may be interested in because of their gender or race,” she said. “Don’t buy the Lego just for the boy.”
Mar 12, 2021
AI-Powered Virtual People Can Now Take Over Office Receptionist Duties
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: business, robotics/AI
Digital clones are coming to an office building near you.
Hour One, the company behind photo-realistic digital clones, now has AI avatars capable of taking over receptionist roles in businesses.
Mar 12, 2021
Irakli Beridze, Head, Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics — UNICRI — United Nations
Posted by Ira S. Pastor in categories: government, law, policy, robotics/AI, security, sustainability
AI And Robots For Law And Order — Irakli Beridze — Head, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, UNICRI – United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute.
Irakli Beridze is the Head of the Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics at The United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI).
Mar 12, 2021
Controlled by light alone, new smart materials twist, bend and move
Posted by Raphael Ramos in categories: robotics/AI, solar power, sustainability
Researchers at Tufts University School of Engineering have created light-activated composite devices able to execute precise, visible movements and form complex three-dimensional shapes without the need for wires or other actuating materials or energy sources. The design combines programmable photonic crystals with an elastomeric composite that can be engineered at the macro and nano scale to respond to illumination.
The research provides new avenues for the development of smart light-driven systems such as high-efficiency, self-aligning solar cells that automatically follow the sun’s direction and angle of light, light-actuated microfluidic valves or soft robots that move with light on demand. A “photonic sunflower,” whose petals curl towards and away from illumination and which tracks the path and angle of the light, demonstrates the technology in a paper that appears March 12th, 2021 in Nature Communications.
Color results from the absorption and reflection of light. Behind every flash of an iridescent butterfly wing or opal gemstone lie complex interactions in which natural photonic crystals embedded in the wing or stone absorb light of specific frequencies and reflect others. The angle at which the light meets the crystalline surface can affect which wavelengths are absorbed and the heat that is generated from that absorbed energy.
