Tag Archives: Robotics

Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 1:16 pm on August 24, 2019
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Researchers use machine learning to teach robots how to trek through unknown terrains

A team of Australian researchers has designed a reliable strategy for testing physical abilities of humanoid robots—robots that resemble the human body shape in their build and design. Using a blend of machine learning methods and algorithms, the research team succeeded in enabling test robots to effectively react to unknown changes in the simulated environment, improving their odds of functioning in the real world.

The findings, which were published in a joint publication of the IEEE and the Chinese Association of Automation Journal of Automatica Sinica in July, have promising implications in the broad use of humanoid robots in fields such as healthcare, education, disaster response and entertainment Read More

Fulltext of the paper is available:

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber=8753751

http://www.ieee-jas.org/article/doi/10.1109/JAS.2019.1911567?pageType=en

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 11:23 am on August 8, 2019
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How Amazon Shipping Works

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 7:48 pm on August 6, 2019
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Israel’s Carmel program: Envisioning armored vehicles of the future

Israel is developing combat vehicles of the future that will use the latest in artificial intelligence technology to reduce collateral damage and enable formations of manned and unmanned vehicles working in concert.

The director of defense research and development at Israel’s Ministry of Defense revealed the Carmel program concept behind the multi-year initiative, showcasing new technologies at a base in northern Israel Aug. 4.

Carmel is a “revolutionary program,” said head of R&D, Brig. Gen. Yaniv Rotem, in an interview during a visit by Defense News. The goal is to reduce the number of soldiers inside armored vehicles from the usual four to two while enhancing mission performance, all in a closed cockpit or turret. The system uses the latest optics outside and screens inside to allow maneuverability and a 360-degree view. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 8:25 pm on July 25, 2019
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Vacation scammer speaks with a Jolly Roger bot named Ox-Gut McGee

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 10:27 pm on July 24, 2019
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AI And Chatbots Are Transforming The Customer Experience

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is dramatically changing business, and chatbots, fueled by AI, are becoming a viable customer service channel. The best ones deliver a customer experience (CX) in which customers cannot tell if they are communicating with a human or a computer. AI has come a long way in recognizing the content – and context – of customers’ requests and questions. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 11:52 am on July 12, 2019
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Catalytic: ‘RPA is the gateway drug for AI’

The immediate benefit of RPA is that it can eliminate a lot of repetitive manual labor and free up humans for what they are better at. But there’s also a side effect. RPA helps enterprises create a standardize framework for capturing data about how they execute processes as well as data about how processes can get delayed or stalled.

“If you set up RPA the right way by instrumenting the process, it’s possible to gather data to use as the training set for machine learning,” said Ted Shelton, Chief Revenue Officer at Catalytic, in an interview at Transform 2019. “RPA is the gateway drug for AI.” Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 11:21 am on July 9, 2019
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Futurist Thomas Frey’s predictions featured at the World Economic Forum

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 7:46 pm on July 3, 2019
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Can a Robot Hear the Shape and Dimensions of a Room?

Knowing the geometry of a space is desirable for many applications, e.g. sound source localization, sound field reproduction or auralization. In circumstances where only acoustic signals can be obtained, estimating the geometry of a room is a challenging propostition. Existing methods have been proposed to reconstruct a room from the room impulse responses (RIRs). However, the sound source and microphones must be deployed in a feasible region of the room for it to work, which is impractical when the room is unknown. This work propose to employ a robot equipped with a sound source and four acoustic sensors, to follow a proposed path planning strategy to moves around the room to collect first image sources for room geometry estimation. The strategy can effectively drives the robot from a random initial location through the room so that the room geometry is guaranteed to be revelaed. Effectiveness of the proposed approach is extensively validated in a synthetic environment, where the results obtained are highly promising. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 9:34 pm on June 25, 2019
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Autonomous Navigation of MAVs in Unknown Cluttered Environments

This paper presents an autonomous navigation framework for reaching a goal in unknown 3D cluttered environments. The framework consists of three main components. First, a computationally efficient method for mapping the environment from the disparity measurements obtained from a depth sensor. Second, a stochastic method to generate a path to a given goal, taking into account field of view constraints on the space that is assumed to be safe for navigation. Third, a fast method for the online generation of motion plans, taking into account the robot’s dynamic constraints, model and environmental uncertainty and disturbances. To highlight the contribution with respect to the available literature, we provide a qualitative and quantitative comparison with state of the art methods for reaching a goal and for exploration in unknown environments, showing the superior performance of our approach. To illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework, we present experiments in multiple indoors and outdoors environments running the algorithm fully on board and in real-time, using a robotic platform based on the Intel Ready to Fly drone kit, which represents the implementation in the most frugal platform for navigation in unknown cluttered environments demonstrated to date. See video at https://youtu.be/Wq0e7vF6nZM. Read More

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Unknown's avatar Rick's Cafe AI 7:53 pm on June 21, 2019
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Meet Hemingway: The Artificial Intelligence Robot That Can Copy Your Handwriting

The everyday tasks that humans often take for granted, such as walking and handwriting, have, until recently, been challenging to program a robot to do.The Handwriting Company now has a robot that can create beautifully handwritten communication that mimics the style of an individual’s handwriting while a robot from Brown University can replicate handwriting from a variety of languages even though it was just trained on Japanese characters. Achieving this milestone of robotic capabilities was quite a feat for the researchers and roboticists behind the scenes and the machine learning algorithms that power the robots’ skills. Let’s review what’s currently possible today and what might be in store for the future with robots creating handwritten text. Read More

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