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May 26, 2020

Why the Future of Machine Learning Is a Master Algorithm

Posted by in categories: information science, robotics/AI

Pedro Domingos has devoted his life to learning how computers learn. He says a breakthrough is coming.

May 26, 2020

Deep learning accurately stains digital biopsy slides

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, information science, robotics/AI

Tissue biopsy slides stained using hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) dyes are a cornerstone of histopathology, especially for pathologists needing to diagnose and determine the stage of cancers. A research team led by MIT scientists at the Media Lab, in collaboration with clinicians at Stanford University School of Medicine and Harvard Medical School, now shows that digital scans of these biopsy slides can be stained computationally, using deep learning algorithms trained on data from physically dyed slides.

Pathologists who examined the computationally stained H&E images in a blind study could not tell them apart from traditionally stained slides while using them to accurately identify and grade prostate cancers. What’s more, the slides could also be computationally “de-stained” in a way that resets them to an original state for use in future studies, the researchers conclude in their May 20 study published in JAMA Network Open.

This process of computational digital staining and de-staining preserves small amounts of tissue biopsied from cancer patients and allows researchers and clinicians to analyze slides for multiple kinds of diagnostic and prognostic tests, without needing to extract additional tissue sections.

May 26, 2020

Exclusive: Machine Learning Company Insitro Raises $143 Million To Bridge Biology And AI

Posted by in categories: biological, robotics/AI

The company’s series B funding round was led by inventors at Andreessen Horowitz and includes new investor Casdin Capital.

May 26, 2020

Why “utility fogs” could be the technology that changes the world

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

Circa 2012


Arthur C. Clarke is famous for suggesting that any sufficiently advanced technology would be indistinguishable from magic. There’s no better of this than the ultra-speculative prospect of “utility fogs” — swarms of networked microscopic robots that could assume the shape and texture of virtually anything.

May 26, 2020

Why “selling robots” isn’t a very profiting idea, and what are more reasonable business models?

Posted by in categories: business, robotics/AI

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In this article, we explain why selling robots to individual buyers or regular families is not a very good business model, and what strategies are better for robot-making companies to profit.

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May 26, 2020

PETER VOSS — Could AGI Cure Aging?! (#003)

Posted by in categories: business, cryonics, Elon Musk, finance, government, quantum physics, Ray Kurzweil, robotics/AI

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May 25, 2020

China set to launch Mars probe and rover mission in July

Posted by in categories: drones, robotics/AI, space

China’s space program will launch a Mars mission in July, according to its current plans. This will include deploying an orbital probe to study the red planet, and a robotic, remotely-controlled rover for surface exploration. The U.S. has also been planning another robotic rover mission for Mars, and it’s set to take off this summer, too – peak time for an optimal transit from Earth to Mars thanks to their relative orbits around the Sun.

This will be the first rover mission to Mars for China’s space program, and is one of the many ways that it’s aiming to better compete with NASA’s space exploration efforts. NASA has flown four previous Mars rover missions, and its fifth, with an updated rover called ‘Perseverance,’ is set to take place this years with a goal of making a rendezvous with Mars sometime in February 2021.

NASA’s mission also includes an ambitious rock sample return plan, which will include the first powered spacecraft launch from the red planet to bring that back. The U.S. space agency is also sending the first atmospheric aerial vehicle to Mars on this mission, a helicopter drone that will be used for short flights to collect additional data from above the planet’s surface.

May 25, 2020

This ‘robot nose’ can sniff bombs and drugs, just like sniffer dogs

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

An artificial ‘robo-nose’ made from living mouse cells can replace sniffer dogs’ job of smelling narcotics like cocaine, marijuana, missing people and explosives.

May 25, 2020

China’s new killer robot ship goes through its first sea trial

Posted by in categories: military, robotics/AI

Buckle up, Buttercup.

The robotics arms race has been in progress awhile.


Unmanned surface vessel is said to be world’s first with multiple roles – anti-submarine, air defence and surface combat – and powerful weaponry.

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May 25, 2020

Gap is rushing more robots into its warehouses to handle coronavirus disruption

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, robotics/AI

U.S. apparel chain Gap is speeding up its rollout of warehouse robots for assembling online orders so it can limit human contact during the coronavirus pandemic, the company told Reuters.

Gap reached a deal early this year to more than triple the number of item-picking robots it uses to 106 by the fall. Then the pandemic struck North America, forcing the company to close all its stores in the region, including those of Banana Republic, Old Navy and other brands. Meanwhile, its warehouses faced more web orders and fewer staff to fulfill them because of social distancing rules Gap had put in place.

“We could not get as many people in our distribution centers safely,” said Kevin Kuntz, Gap’s senior vice president of global logistics fulfillment. So he called up Kindred AI, the vendor that sells the machines, to ask: “Can you get them here earlier?”