Moravec‘s Paradox

The biggest challenge facing IT leaders managing human-robot teams is ensuring that the work environment has, and can maintain, a spirit of collaboration, says Kamyar Shah, CEO of management consulting firm World Consulting Group. When robots are added to a team, human workers often assume the worst -- that their…

Areas where artificial intelligence has begun to show returns are industrial automation (smart factories), decision support in medical diagnosis, new drug formulations (e.g., COVID medications), and automating business processes such as fraud detection and intervention in financial transactions. In each of these cases, business value was easily demonstrated in operational…

Company will display sensor fusion technology for autonomous driving training data. INFINIQ, an artificial intelligence (AI) data service company specializing in autonomous driving solutions, will unveil AI based autonomous driving data and retail innovation technology at CES® 2022. The Korean company has officially announced that it will participate in the…

Or should that be Death Stranding Delector's Plus? Following a PlayStation debut in September, Death Stranding Director's Cut is now confirmed to be headed to PC this spring. The expanded version of the Kojima Productions stumbling simulator whacks in new items, missions, and oddities, ranging from a robot you can…

Credit: Wiley Natural camouflage is one of nature's most interesting traits. Materials scientists have now developed a material that can mimic the camouflage capabilities of marine mollusks. They created a starfish-shaped soft robot that responds to heat and pressure with deformation, movement, and color changes. Cut-off tentacles can be welded…

Hollywood’s worst-case scenario involving artificial intelligence (AI) is familiar as a blockbuster sci-fi film: Machines acquire humanlike intelligence, achieving sentience, and inevitably turn into evil overlords that attempt to destroy the human race. This narrative capitalizes on our innate fear of technology, a reflection of the profound change that often…

Artist’s rendering of autonomous, continuous “liquid robots” in an animated GIF. Credit: Jenny Nuss/Berkeley Lab By removing electricity from equation, discovery overcomes yearslong hurdle in robotics. When you think of a robot, images of R2-D2 or C-3PO might come to mind. But robots can serve up more than just entertainment…

Workplace culture has changed immensely since the start of the pandemic, in large part because that "place" is no longer the office; it's our homes. Meetings are mostly virtual. Business travel dried up. Instead of rubbing elbows with co-workers and clients, we're hanging with the kids, spouses, roommates, pets. It's…

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Geneva, Switzerland, December 31, 2021 --(PR.com)-- The Moving Picture, Audio and Data Coding by Artificial Intelligence (MPAI) standards developing organisation has concluded the year 2021, its first full year of operation approving its fifth standard for publication. The standards developed and published by MPAI so far are: 1. Context-based Audio Enhancement…