Moravec‘s Paradox

(Source: JiDU) On Monday, JiDU, an automobile startup founded by Baidu and Geely, released some design details of its concept car’s front and dual LiDARs autonomous driving system pioneered by the company. Wang Weibao, the person in charge of JiDU Intelligent Driving, shared the latest progress of their robot car. Recently,…

Fifteen years ago, the skilled animator Mitsuo Iso helmed Den-noh Coil, a science fiction tale about children interacting with and exploring the world through augmented reality glasses. It was the first time he was able to show off his incredible storytelling chops, and the show garnered a cult following that…

Imagine: A humanoid robot in every household, ready to fulfill our every want and whim. Chores like tidying up, making dinner, and mowing the lawn could be outsourced to AI robot butlers that have total knowledge of every family member, room, and object in the home. That’s a vision of…

This week was full of business acquisitions. Trimble sold LOADRITE, SECO, and several other businesses to The Jordan Company while Metso Outotec has acquired mobile crushing equipment manufacturer Tesab Engineering. Tadano has also started to develop a zero-emission electric rough-terrain crane and Daimler Truck and Torc Robotics are collaborating with…

These days, virtual-reality experts look back on the platform as the first interactive augmented-reality system that enabled users to engage simultaneously with real and virtual objects in a single immersive reality. The project began in 1991, when I pitched the effort as part of my doctoral research at Stanford University.…

A new botnet discovered, low MFA adoption and a Struts bug finally patched. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday April 15th, 2022. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com. Thanks for taking the time to tune in if this is a holiday Friday for you.   A…

Shanghai announced on April 6 that the city’s National Exhibition and Convention Center would be converted into a makeshift hospital to provide 50,000 beds, one of six such facilities in the municipality. As of today, these hospitals have seen 79,983 positive cases, 20,000 of whom were released in the last…

The Justice Department wants to help non-English speakers report crimes, and Defense Department is reviewing algorithmic bias in its Artificial Intelligence technology as part of the Biden administration's broad effort to tackle inequality. Driving the news: More than 90 federal agencies released their Equity Action Plans on Thursday that were…

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(Source: LeSheng Smart) Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio On Wednesday, 36Kr reported that LeSheng Smart, a company engaged in the business of smart robot cleaners, recently completed a round of A+ financing worth 200 million yuan ($31.4 million). The exclusive leading investor was Fortune Capital and the funds are marked for…