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Oct 17, 2018
The 69th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation, in Bremen, celebrated NewSpace, without Musk, Bezos, and Branson
Posted by Adriano Autino in categories: government, robotics/AI, space travel
SRI Newsletter #06 2018 Great success both for the public and for the speakers, despite the enrollment fees definitely out of budget for many: more than 6300 registered participants, of which almost 50% very young, more than 2000 papers presented in the various symposia. The title of the Congress was very interesting: “Involving everyone”. This gave the impression that there was plenty of space at the Congress for the themes of civil development in space. The attention to the impetuous development of the NewSpace sector is now felt everywhere, and the most important global space congress could not avoid being impacted. After all, it is thanks to the growth of the NewSpace sector if the IAF Congress has recorded this remarkable success. But which were the predominant themes of the Congress? Has the promise announced in the title been kept? In part, yes, but a lot of work remains to be done. And the main NewSpace entrepreneurs didn’t come to Bremen. Read the whole article.
The 69th Congress of the International Astronautical Federation took place in the halls of the Bremen exhibition center from 1 to 5 October.
Great success both for the public and for the speakers, despite the enrollment fees definitely out of budget for many: more than 6300 registered participants, of which almost 50% very young, more than 2000 papers presented in the various symposia. The title of the Congress was very interesting: “Involving everyone”. This gave the impression that there was plenty of space at the Congress for the themes of civil development in space. The attention to the impetuous development of the NewSpace sector is now felt everywhere, and the most important global space congress could not avoid being impacted. After all, it is thanks to the growth of the NewSpace sector if the IAF Congress has recorded this remarkable success. But which were the predominant themes of the Congress? Has the promise announced in the title been kept? In part, yes, but a lot of work remains to be done.
Oct 17, 2018
How Robots and Drones Will Change Retail Forever
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: drones, internet, robotics/AI
We are in the early days of what might be called the “physical cloud,” an e-commerce ecosystem that functions like the internet itself. Netflix caches the movies you stream at a data center physically close to you; Amazon is building warehouse after warehouse to store goods closer to consumers. And the storage systems at those warehouses are looking more like the data-storage systems in the cloud. Instead of storing similar items in the same place—a helpful practice when humans were fetching the goods—Amazon’s warehouses store multiples of the same item at random locations, known only to the robots. Trying to find an Instapot at one of Amazon’s warehouses would be like trying to find where in the cloud one of your emails is stored. Of course, you don’t have to. You just tap your screen and the email appears. No humans are involved.
What if you could store and deliver goods as easily as data? Amazon, Walmart and others are using AI and robotics to transform everything from appliance shopping to grocery delivery. Welcome to the physical cloud.
Oct 16, 2018
Autonomous Flights Are One Step Closer to Reality
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: robotics/AI, transportation
The air cargo industry is already considering one-person flight crews. Self-flying planes may be next.
Oct 16, 2018
Tesla aims for new neural net computer in production in 6 months, results in 500‑2000% increase in ops/sec, says Elon Musk
Posted by Bill Kemp in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Tesla CEO Elon Musk updated the timeline to release the company’s new neural net computer, which they claimed will be the ‘world’s most advanced computer for autonomous driving’.
They are now aiming for the new computer to be in production in about 6 months and it could result in a 500‑2000% increase in operation per second, according to Musk.
The release of this new computer with Tesla’s own AI chip would be the culmination of a long project that Tesla started about 3 years ago as it anticipated a need for more computing power in its vehicles.
Oct 16, 2018
Studying the stars with machine learning
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: robotics/AI
To keep up with an impending astronomical increase in data about our universe, astrophysicists turn to machine learning.
Oct 16, 2018
Longevity Impact Forum will make digital health mainstream
Posted by Edward Futurem in categories: bitcoin, life extension, robotics/AI
Invite to consolidation of efforts.
Top of Longevity and healthtech companies. AI, blockchain, digital health and mHealth are the top investment opportunities in aging world.
Oct 16, 2018
MIT Knows That AI Is The Future
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biological, chemistry, robotics/AI
MIT has launched the Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing, a $1 billion center dedicated to “reshaping its academic program” around AI. The idea, said MIT president L. Rafael Reif, is to use AI, machine learning and data science with other academic disciplines to “educate the bilinguals of the future,” defining bilingual as those working in biology, chemistry, politics, history and linguistics with computing skills that can be used in their field.
Oct 16, 2018
Pepper the robot tells MPs about artificial intelligence
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: education, robotics/AI
‘My name is Pepper,’ robot tells MPs
Jump to media player Pepper the robot answers questions from MPs on the education select committee about helping to care for older people.
Oct 15, 2018
AI can analyze changes in Earth’s magnetic field to predict quakes ‘unprecedentedly early’
Posted by Carse Peel in category: robotics/AI
Researchers have revealed a radical new use of AI — to predict earthquakes.
A team from Tokyo Metropolitan University have used machine-learning techniques to analyze tiny changes in geomagnetic fields.