The robot’s code name is Bombyx, which is Latin for silkworm, and pilot tests with the machine begin next year.
The robot rests delicately atop a power line, balanced high above the ground, almost as if it’s floating. Like a short, stocky tightrope walker, it gradually makes its way forward, leaving a string of cable in its wake. When it comes to a pole, it gracefully elevates its body to pass the roadblock and keep chugging along. Read More
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Qualcomm’s Robotics RB5 Platform combines AI acceleration with 5G
Qualcomm today launched the Robotics 5G Platform, which it claims is the world’s first to support AI acceleration and 5G. It occupies the high end of the chipmaker’s prefab robotics solutions and is designed to enable things like machine learning, heterogeneous computing, and computer vision while withstanding “industrial-grade” temperatures and incorporating security “at every layer.”
Stakeholders like Qualcomm believe AI is moving to the edge. Read More
Understanding Artificial Intelligence From Intelligent Automation
In the age of digital disruption, intelligent automation is omnipresent. A heady mix of AI and RPA, intelligent automation is adapted for its sheer ease to automate rule-based tasks and unstructured data handling. In this digital age, organizations walking on the path of change management adopt intelligent automation in a bid to outsmart their competitors.
You may wonder can these two terms be interchanged? The short answer is NO. IA and AI are two different concepts, the main point of difference being while artificial intelligence is about algorithms programmed to mimic human cognitive functions, intelligent automation takes the rule-based, highly voluminous work processes to AI-enabled RPA bots to ensure improved safety, operational efficiency, and business continuity. Read More
This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
Late last year, David Haynes, a security engineer at internet infrastructure company Cloudflare, found himself gazing at a strange image. “It was pure gibberish,” he says. “A whole bunch of gray and black pixels, made by a machine.” He declined to share the image, saying it would be a security risk.
Haynes’ caution was understandable. The image was created by a tool called Mayhem that probes software to find unknown security flaws, made by a startup spun out of Carnegie Mellon University called ForAllSecure. Haynes had been testing it on Cloudware software that resizes images to speed up websites, and fed it several sample photos. Mayhem mutated them into glitchy, cursed images that crashed the photo processing software by triggering an unnoticed bug, a weakness that could have caused headaches for customers paying Cloudflare to keep their websites running smoothly. Read More
China’s State News Agency Introduces New Artificial Intelligence Anchor
Xinhua, the Chinese state news agency, has released its latest artificial intelligence (AI) 3D news anchor. The AI anchor joins a list of growing virtual presenters that are being developed by the agency.
The AI news anchor is named Xin Xiaowei, and it is modeled after Zhao Wanwei, who is one of the agency’s human news presenters.
According to the search engine Sogou, who co-developed the technology, the AI anchor utilizes “multi-modal recognition and synthesis, facial recognition and animation and transfer learning.” Read More
Hydras and IPFS: A Decentralised Playground for Malware
Modern malware can take various forms, and has reached a very high level of sophistication in terms of its penetration, persistence, communication and hiding capabilities. The use of cryptography, and of covert communication channels over public and widely used protocols and services, is becoming a norm. In this work, we start by introducing Resource Identifier Generation Algorithms. These are an extension of a well-known mechanism called Domain Generation Algorithms (DGA), which are frequently employed by cybercriminals for bot management and communication. Our extension allows, beyond DNS, the use of other protocols. More concretely, we showcase the exploitation of the InterPlanetary file system (IPFS). This is a solution for the “permanent web”, which enjoys a steadily growing community interest and adoption. The IPFS is, in addition, one of the most prominent solutions for blockchain storage. We go beyond the straightforward case of using the IPFS for hosting malicious content, and explore ways in which a botmaster could employ it, to manage her bots, validating our findings experimentally. Finally, we discuss the advantages of our approach for malware authors, its efficacy and highlight its extensibility for other distributed storage services. Read More
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Linking sense of touch to facial movement inches robots toward ‘feeling’ pain
A robot with a sense of touch may one day “feel” pain, both its own physical pain and empathy for the pain of its human companions. Such touchy-feely robots are still far off, but advances in robotic touch-sensing are bringing that possibility closer to reality.
Sensors embedded in soft, artificial skin that can detect both a gentle touch and a painful thump have been hooked up to a robot that can then signal emotions, Minoru Asada reported February 15 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. This artificial “pain nervous system,” as Asada calls it, may be a small building block for a machine that could ultimately experience pain (in a robotic sort of way). Such a feeling might also allow a robot to “empathize” with a human companion’s suffering. Read More
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