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Automation, robotics and artificial intelligence news, features and analysis. Verdict covers the latest on AI, automation, robots and drones, with news and insight from some of the world’s leading experts. AI is transforming the way we work, live and play, and there is far more change ahead as technology advances further.
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20 Aug
Starship Technologies announces $40m Series A funding for robot delivery expansion
Delivering over 6,000 pizzas, 7,000 gallons of milk, 8,000 coffees, 9,000 sushi rolls, 15,000 bananas and over 3,700 nappies since its launch in 2014, Starship Technologies has rightfully earned its place at the forefront of the delivery robot market.
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19 Aug
Segway-Ninebot challenges Starship with delivery robot launch
Segway-Ninebot has unveiled its first outdoor autonomous delivery robot, in a show of confidence of this emerging market.
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16 Aug
Take a seat: The mental health chatbots encroaching on the therapist’s couch
Chatbots are everywhere.
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16 Aug
Outside China, London is the most surveilled city in the world
Surveillance is on the increase around the world, but the extent to which citizens are under watchful eyes varies dramatically.
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15 Aug
Digital personal assistants are here, so why aren’t enterprises using them?
In the 21st century, the capabilities of digital personal assistants now come close to replicating their human equivalents.
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14 Aug
AI & innovation: Will the next Tesla or Dyson even be human?
From boardrooms to editorial departments, interest around artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning is showing no sign of abating.
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13 Aug
Smartphone app uses AI to detect diseased bananas
A research project has brought together artificial intelligence (AI), satellites, cloud computing and the internet of things (IoT) to help farmers detect diseased bananas using a smartphone app.
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12 Aug
A brief history of AI: The progression towards artificial general intelligence
Each day brings a new story of how artificial intelligence (AI) has achieved yet another apparent intellectual feat, often better than a human could have done it.
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9 Aug
Businesses must monitor AI bias more closely: CBI
Businesses should do more to prevent artificial intelligence (AI) from “entrenching existing unfairness and barriers”, a new report by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has said.
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8 Aug
Government invests £250m in NHS AI Lab to improve patient care
The UK government has said it will allocate £250m for a National Artificial Intelligence Lab for the National Health Service (NHS) to improve patient care.
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5 Aug
You shouldn’t fear an AI lie detector, unless, of course, you have something to hide
The next time you pass across a border, you might find yourself being interrogated by an artificial intelligence-powered lie detector rather than a human agent.
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2 Aug
Stop trade war restrictions on AI healthcare, experts warn
As two of the world leaders in artificial intelligence (AI), it is perhaps no surprise that the US and China have seen the industry as a key battleground in their ongoing trade war.
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2 Aug
When machines create: Should AI be recognised as an inventor?
Researchers from the University of Surrey have teamed up with US artificial intelligence company Dabus to file patents in an AI system’s name, but the idea of recognising AI as an inventor has received mixed response from the industry.
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1 Aug
Premier League predictions 2019-20: Here’s how the season will pan out (according to AI)
From Leicester City winning the title in 2016 to Liverpool overturning a 4-0 defeat to Barcelona in last season’s Champions League, football is impossible to predict.
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1 Aug
Watch: This ‘cockroach robot’ cannot be squashed
Cockroaches are notoriously difficult to kill.
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31 Jul
AI translation advances are now posing a risk to jobs
Researchers from MIT, along with Google’s AI labs, recently announced that they have developed an AI translation tool capable of translating ancient languages.
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31 Jul
Voice assistant shopping boom predictions slated as “wildy optimistic”
Predictions of a boom in voice assistant shopping are “wildly optimistic”, according to ParcelHero, with consumers yet to fully embrace the technology.
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31 Jul
TrailGuard AI: AI-powered cameras deployed to protect against poachers
Mobile satellite communications provider Inmarsat has teamed up with environmental non-profit RESOLVE to deploy an artificial intelligence (AI) powered system to protect endangered wildlife from poachers across the African continent.
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29 Jul
Researchers develop neural network able to understand human emotion
A computer that understands how you feel may sound like something out of a dystopian sci-fi film, but with the ever-advancing capabilities of artificial intelligence, it may soon become a reality.
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23 Jul
US tech giants are buying up AI startups, but acquisition diversity is on its way
While artificial intelligence (AI) technology has the power to transform a range of sectors, US-based technology giants remain the largest investors in promising AI tech startups, according to data and analytics company GlobalData.
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22 Jul
AI offers Toronto’s homeless community a helping hand
Ample Labs, a non-profit using technology to empower the homeless community, has teamed up with artificial intelligence company Ada to create an AI chatbot that will provide homeless people with 24-hour access to support.
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19 Jul
Neuralink: Do we really need to merge our brains with AI?
If we don’t merge our brains with artificial intelligence, we’re toast.
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19 Jul
Robots and prosthetics could soon be as sensitive as human skin thanks to new e-skin
Robots and prosthetics may soon have a sense of touch similar to human skin thanks to e-skin technology developed by researchers at the National University of Singapore.
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16 Jul
AI pie created using Open AI language model to “demystify” technology for SMEs
A pie created using artificial intelligence (AI) has been produced by pie maker Piglets Pantry in collaboration with digital lending platform Esme Loans in order to show how the technology can be used by small businesses.
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16 Jul
AI solves Rubik’s Cube faster than the fastest human
US researchers have created an AI that can solve a Rubik’s Cube in a fraction of a second, far quicker than the fastest human.
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15 Jul
AI projects to double – but skills aren’t keeping up
The number of enterprise projects using artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML), are set to double within the next year, but the skills needed to back such AI projects remain a significant concern.
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12 Jul
How your smartphone could help power vital research projects
It is a well-known piece of trivia that smartphones now contain greater processing power than the computers used in NASA missions to send astronauts to the Moon 50 years ago, and it is certainly true that modern smartphone now rival supercomputers of the past.
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10 Jul
US dominates AI startup investment, but China makes up ground
US venture capital (VC) firms are making up the lion’s share of investment in artificial intelligence (AI) startups, according to data and analytics company GlobalData.
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8 Jul
Underwater robot to seek out viable mine sites
An underwater robot is being developed to explore abandoned mines and determine whether it is economically viable to reopen them.
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5 Jul
Ethical AI necessary to gain consumer trust, Capgemini finds
As the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI) improve, so does its prevalence in everyday life, including how businesses interact with customers.
