Google And Fiat To Make Self-Driving Minivans
Google is breaking new ground in its autonomous car venture by partnering with an actual auto manufacturer, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, to produce a fleet...
Watch: China’s Most Lifelike Robot Yet
The University of Science and Technology (UST) in Anhui, China recently showcased its incredibly realistic-looking humanoid robot. Jia Jia can talk, make facial expressions,...
The Good, The Bad, And The Autonomous In Battle
Autonomous machines are developing at incredible rates, and we may soon find them fighting our battles for us. While the possibilities of technology keep...
Volvo To Test Autonomous Cars In London
Volvo is bringing autonomous automobiles to the streets of London. Starting next year, the Swedish car manufacturer will be testing its self-driving cars in...
US Congress Debates Hacker Threat To Self-Driving Cars
Self-driving vehicles are right around the corner, but they may be faced with an issue that has so far not received much attention. In...
WATCH: DAVE2 – Nvidia’s Self-Driving Car
Network World brings us news of an electric car that teaches itself to see and steer. An engineering team at Nvidia - known primarily...
DARPA’s Grand Challenge Hopes To Automate Software Patching
The US Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is trying to take cyber defence to the next level with the help of some friendly...
Your Face Is Big Data
Russian photography student, Yegor Tsvetkov, has created a demonstration that shows quite how easy it is for computers to identify individuals - complete strangers,...
Chinese Self-Driving Car Triumph In 2000km Test
China’s self-driving car testing is kicking into high-gear. Two autonomous vehicles built by Changan Automobile have completed a 2000 km journey in six days...
How Do Neural Networks See?
Vision and understanding images is no longer the purview of biological creatures only. In recent years, computers have become astonishingly good at understanding what...
Crewless Drone Ships Will Ply The Seas By 2020
Rolls-Royce is predicting that in just four years, crewless “drone ships” will be sailing the seas with no crew on board. The aircraft engine...
DARPA’s Plan To Counter Radar With AI
China and Russia are hard at work to develop ever more capable radar systems, but the Pentagon has a plan to counter them with...
China’s Baidu Creates AI To Warn of Crowd Stampedes
In New Year’s Eve of 2015, thousands in Shanghai came to the Bund where a light show was to take place to mark the...
Watch This Industrial Robot Teach Itself
The world’s leading industrial robot maker, Fanuc, is working on an incredibly clever robot. The Japanese company has created a robot that learns how...
Drones For Search And Rescue
All around the world, search and rescue team respond to many thousands of calls annually.They search for lost travellers, hikers, and holidaymakers in mountain...
A First in Israel – CBS Startup Festival Hosts Global Pioneers...
CBS (Connecting Business & Startup) will host, for the very first time in Israel, the global pioneering community, Global Pioneers, and will offer dozens...
Will AI Destroy Us? Probably not
Strong Artificial Intelligence is still a long way off, it happens at all. But the worry that keeps creeping up is that once we...
Facebook Is Building Global Population Maps Using AI
Facebook’s goal of having the whole world go online is nothing new. Starting with its project to supply the whole world with airborne internet...
Watch: Russia’s New Space Robots
The Russian Foundation for Advanced Research Projects in the Defense Industry (FPI) has showcased an operational prototype of a humanoid robot designed to perform...
Google Could Be Bringing Machine Vision To Smartphones
Machine learning could soon be coming to mobile devices, if recently announced partnership between Google and chip manufacturer Movidius bears fruit. Machine learning is...
“Angry” AI To Train Customer Service Reps
Most of us know the frustration of dealing with a dumb voicemail AI, the kind that accepts your call and in the nicest, most...
Google’s Go Victory Heralds New Age Of Strategy
by Konstantin Bodragin
In case you haven’t heard, Google just made a pretty big splash in the Artificial Intelligence (AI) world. The company’s London-based DeepMind...