Month: April 2017

Amazon’s Alexa to Sound More Human

• Amazon
• Voice

Amazon’s Alexa to Sound More Human

Ellen Red April 29, 2017

Amazon announced that Alexa’s developers in the US, UK, and Germany now have a way to make...

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MIT’s Robot 3D-Printed the World’s Biggest Botmade Building

• Construction
• Robots

MIT’s Robot 3D-Printed the World’s Biggest Botmade Building

Ellen Red April 28, 2017

Researchers at MIT have developed a construction robot that 3D-printed the world’s biggest botmade building to date....

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Russia Develops Humanoid Robot that Shoots Guns

• Military
• Neural Networks
• Robots

Russia Develops Humanoid Robot that Shoots Guns

Ellen Red April 21, 2017

Russia’s deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin tweeted a video showing a humanoid robot called “FEDOR” shooting guns...

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Baidu to Open Source Its Autonomous Driving Technology

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cars
• Open Source

Baidu to Open Source Its Autonomous Driving Technology

Ellen Red April 19, 2017

Baidu announced that it will soon release its open source autonomous driving technology. The company said that...

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Robots Could One Day be Tasked with Working as a Surveillance Team

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communications
• Military

Robots Could One Day be Tasked with Working as a Surveillance Team

Ellen Red April 15, 2017

Researchers at Cornell University are developing a system that could one day enable robots to communicate with...

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Startup Luminar Claims Its Lidar – Autonomous Car’s Eyes – Sees Better

• Artificial Intelligence
• Startups
• Transportation

Startup Luminar Claims Its Lidar – Autonomous Car’s Eyes – Sees Better

Ellen Red April 14, 2017

Luminar Technologies, a startup based in Silicon Valley, announced that it has developed a lidar that is...

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DeepMind Releases Sonnet Library to Aid Developers to Quickly Create Neural Networks

• Artificial Intelligence
• Deep Learning
• Neural Networks
• Open Source

DeepMind Releases Sonnet Library to Aid Developers to Quickly Create Neural Networks

Ellen Red April 7, 2017

Google’s DeepMind announced that it has released and open sourced Sonnet – a new open source library...

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Locus Robotics Develops Warehouse Robots that Communicate with Each Other

• Retail
• Robots
• Startups

Locus Robotics Develops Warehouse Robots that Communicate with Each Other

Ellen Red April 5, 2017

Locus Robotics, an autonomous warehouse robotics company, announced that it has developed a system that allows warehouse...

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