A robot armed with ultraviolet light to kill viruses is now being tested on Swiss airplanes— the general idea being to restore passenger confidence and reduce the strain of the pandemic on the travel industry. UVeya, a Swiss start-up has…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Device Equips Monkey to Play Pong With Only Its Brain
Neuralink, a company owned by Elon Musk which focuses on mind control recently released a blog post video with details of an invention which uses its hardware making it possible for a monkey to play Pong with only its brain.…
Scientists Show Risks of Emotion Recognition Software Through Online Game
Technology designed to identify and recognize human emotions using machine learning has been frowned upon by ethicists. Now, researchers are on a quest to unmask its reality claiming it could be useful in situations such as road safety or market…
New AI Backpack System For Guiding Vision-impaired Wearers
Researchers at the University of Georgia recently developed a backpack system to assist vision-impaired wearers navigate their environment better. The backpack uses a Luxonis OAK-D spatial camera, with an on-chip edge AI processor and uses Intel’s Movidius image processing technology.…
Computer Model Tracks Cellphone Data to Predict the Spread of COVID-19
Last year, Assistant Professors in the Department of Computer Science at Binghamton University’s Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Arti Ramesh and Anand Seetharam published several studies using data mining and machine learning models in response to…
“Smart” Clothes Which Measure Movement
Researchers from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) have designed a clothing which makes use of special fibers to sense a person’s movement through touch. The clothes are also capable of determining if a person is walking, sitting…
Tesla In-cabin Cameras Threat to Driver Privacy, Consumer Reports Says
More and more driver-assist systems are installed in new automobiles, companies still bear the liability of ensuring that the technology is used by drivers in a safe and responsible manner. This usually comes in the form of a driver-monitoring system,…
Microbots Swimmers Increase Speed with Artificial Intelligence
Recent studies show that machine learning could assist tiny microbots swim through fluid and reach their goal without getting knocked off course by random movement of particles on their journey. Microbotic ‘swimmers’ are usually designed to copy the manner bacteria…
New Diversity Training Using Virtual Reality
Companies have customarily responded to bias and all kinds of discrimination with unconscious bias training, which usually involves PowerPoint presentations or click-through courses to be checked off by employees. Some companies go further by organizing a Zoom session with experts…
Mobility Data for Response to COVID-19 could Exclude Older and Non-white People
An effective method used to analyze appropriate response to COVID-19 is information on an individual’s mobility— usually measured by their smartphones. A recent study tested the reliability and prejudice of popularly used mobility data, discovering that older and non-white voters…