Run out of milk? Robots on call for Singapore home deliveries.
Singapore technology company, OTSAW Digital, deployed a pair of robots to bring residents their groceries in one part of the city state. The robots are equipped with 3D sensors, a camera and two compartments each able to carry up to 20 kg (44 lb) of food. The service is part of a one-year trial. Read More
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Adversarial training reduces safety of neural networks in robots: Research
There’s a growing interest in employing autonomous mobile robots in open work environments such as warehouses, especially with the constraints posed by the global pandemic. And thanks to advances in deep learning algorithms and sensor technology, industrial robots are becoming more versatile and less costly.
But safety and security remain two major concerns in robotics.
… But adversarial training can have a significantly negative impact on the safety of robots, the researchers at IST Austria, MIT, and TU Wien discuss in a paper titled “Adversarial Training is Not Ready for Robot Learning.” Their paper, which has been accepted at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2021), shows that the field needs new ways to improve adversarial robustness in deep neural networks used in robotics without reducing their accuracy and safety. Read More
Defence review: British army to be cut to 72,500 troops by 2025
The size of the Army is to be reduced to 72,500 soldiers by 2025 as part of a move towards drones and cyber warfare.
Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said “increased deployability and technological advantage” meant greater effect could be delivered by fewer people.br>
He set out plans for new capabilities such as electronic warfare and drones in the Commons. Read More
Soon, AI-based robots to replace financial advisers: Oracle study
India is among top three geographies including Japan and China where 83 per cent of Indians and 88 per cent of business leaders now trust AI more than humans to manage finance
ust about a year ago, before the world was locked down, the big fear was technology taking over jobs. But, over the extended global lockdown, humans seem to have discovered greater faith in technology and machines, according to Oracle’s Money and Machines: 2020 Global Study that was conducted across 9,000 consumers and business leaders in 14 countries.
India is among the top three geographies including Japan and China where 83 per cent of Indians and 88 per cent of business leaders now trust artificial intelligence (AI) more than humans to manage finance. Read More
Oregon-made walking, humanoid robot testing package delivery from curb to your doorstep
Away From Silicon Valley, the Military Is the Ideal Customer
While much has been made of tech’s unwillingness to work with the Pentagon, start-ups are still plumbing the industry’s decades-long ties to the military.
… Though parts of Silicon Valley have kept the Pentagon at arm’s length in recent years, Palmer Luckey’s company, based 400 miles to the south in Irvine, is aggressively courting business from government agencies and the military.
It is one of a number of young tech companies, many of them far from Silicon Valley, that are shrugging off the concerns about the potential militarization of their creations that in recent years have stirred employee revolts at industry giants like Google and Microsoft. Read More
EU report warns that AI makes autonomous vehicles ‘highly vulnerable’ to attack
The dream of autonomous vehicles is that they can avoid human error and save lives, but a new European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) report has found that autonomous vehicles are “highly vulnerable to a wide range of attacks” that could be dangerous for passengers, pedestrians, and people in other vehicles. Attacks considered in the report include sensor attacks with beams of light, overwhelming object detection systems, back-end malicious activity, and adversarial machine learning attacks presented in training data or the physical world.
“The attack might be used to make the AI ‘blind’ for pedestrians by manipulating for instance the image recognition component in order to misclassify pedestrians. This could lead to havoc on the streets, as autonomous cars may hit pedestrians on the road or crosswalks,” the report reads. “The absence of sufficient security knowledge and expertise among developers and system designers on AI cybersecurity is a major barrier that hampers the integration of security in the automotive sector.” Read More
Ai-Da, the first robot artist to exhibit herself
Ai-Da , a humanoid artificial intelligence robot, will exhibit a series of self-portraits that she created by “looking” into a mirror integrated with her camera eyes. Read More
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