A new study conducted by PwC [https://www.pwc.com/us/en/tech-effect/ai-analytics/ai-predictions.html] found that the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated AI adoption in businesses. More than half of the companies surveyed stated that they sped up their AI adoption due to COVID-19. 86% acknowledged that AI is becoming...
Lookout robodogs, there’s a robounicorn in town. China-based EV startup Xpeng has unveiled a robot unicorn meant for children to ride. The cuter, more kid-friendly version of Boston Dynamics’ Spot will be able to utilize Xpeng’s experiences in autonomous driving and AI to navigate multiple terrains, recognize objects...
Twitter is introducing a new ‘Automated Account’ labeling feature that allows accounts to self-identify as bots. The opt-in label is intended for what the company calls “good bots”, those that retweet news, public service announcements, or other updates. The feature does not help users identify “bad bots.” The new feature...
China's Xiaomi released a quadrupedal robot, the CyberDog, following Boston Dynamics' lead. The robot, designed for developers to build upon and create applications for, can respond to voice commands, detect motion, navigate obstacles, follow its owner, and pick out individuals in a group via face tracking. It’s also capable...
South Africa has granted the world’s first patent for a device invented by an AI system called ‘Device for Autonomous Bootstrapping of Unified Sentience’ (DABUS). The patent is for an interlocking food container that helps robots grip and stack objects and was designed by the AI using fractal geometry....
Neuroscientists from Cambridge University are testing an AI-based system that can diagnose dementia in just one day and predict whether dementia patients will require immediate treatment or not. The system developed by Prof. Zoe Kourtzi compares brain scans of patients worried that they might have dementia with those of thousands...
