Jul 16, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Government
The USPTO’s recent landmark decision (16/524,350) concluding artificial intelligence (AI) cannot be a named patent inventor perhaps sparked fears of super-robots inventing critical technologies that, alas, receive no patent protection. If an AI identifies...
Jul 16, 2020 | Detroit, Robots
Detroit has long been known as the Motor City. Maybe “Michigan: the Robot State” will catch on? Officials here are touting a rise in robotics as efforts continue with using advanced machines to keep people safe from the coronavirus … and transitioning to the...
Jul 16, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Featured
Some Utah firefighters are getting some help to detect wildfires before flames are visible. The EDWIN Project (Early Detection Wildfire Imaging Network) uses cameras with artificial intelligence (A.I.) to seek out hot spots in wildfires among the hills...
Jul 9, 2020 | Detroit, Featured, Government, Mobility
Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer formalized the launch of an Office of Future Mobility and Electrification (OFME) last week to support transportation innovation efforts already underway in cities across the state. Chief Mobility Officer Trevor Pawl told Smart...
Jul 9, 2020 | 5G, Featured, Healthcare
But because 5G technology is so new, little is known about the potential health effects from its radiofrequency radiation, which is higher than the current industry standard 4G. The Oregon State study begins to change that. “Based on our study, we don’t...
Jul 9, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Defense
The Pentagon’s artificial intelligence hub is shifting its focus to enabling joint war-fighting operations, developing artificial intelligence tools that will be integrated into the Department of Defense’s Joint All-Domain Command and Control efforts. “As we have...
Jul 9, 2020 | Artificial Intelligence, Robots
Robots are learning to do the jobs of human factory workers, bus drivers, burger flippers, butlers, and healthcare workers, among many others – and now, they may be coming for scientists as well. Engineers at the University of Liverpool have...
Jul 9, 2020 | Featured, Healthcare, Robots
As the coronavirus pandemic rewrites the rules of human interaction, it also has inspired new thinking about how robots and other machines might step in. The stuff of the bot world — early factory-line automation up to today’s artificial intelligence — has been...
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