Automation

AI is Improving Google Assistant Conversations

In order for Google Assistant to really help users with daily tasks, the tool should be able to understand the human user. This means...

UK Signals Self-Driving Cars could Hit Road this Year

Self-driving vehicles could hit the road this year on motorways in Britain, the government said Wednesday, under plans to permit motorists to temporarily take...

Vision Test for Autonomous Cars

The five-meter-long Lexus RX-450h leads a rather contemplative life at Empa. It never takes long trips. Instead, the SUV dutifully makes its rounds on...

Researchers Develop a Robotic Guide Dog to Assist Blind Individuals

Guide dogs, dogs that are trained to help humans move through their environments, have played a critical role in society for many decades. These...

3D Holographic HUD could Improve Road Safety

Researchers have developed the first LiDAR-based augmented reality head-up display for use in vehicles. Tests on a prototype version of the technology suggest that...

Pepper the Robot Talks to Itself to Improve its Interactions with People

Ever wondered why your virtual home assistant doesn't understand your questions? Or why your navigation app took you on the side street instead of...

Multi-Robot Systems gets a New Path Planning Approach

Multi-robot systems have recently been used to tackle a variety of real-world problems, for instance, helping human users to monitor environments and access secluded...

Army Researchers Create Pioneering Approach to Real-Time Conversational AI

Spoken dialogue is the most natural way for people to interact with complex autonomous agents such as robots. Future Army operational environments will require...

Using IOT For Smart Office Automation

The COVID-19 pandemic shifted businesses in ways previously unimaginable. While many employees worldwide are still working remotely, and we begin returning to work at...

Armed Forces to Deploy 5G Network for AI, Unmanned Vehicles

The Indian army, navy, and air force are likely to embrace the next generation (5G) technology to bring artificial intelligence (AI) and unmanned vehicles...

New EtherCAT Modules, Completing the EtherCAT Solution for Industrial Automation

Two new modules in the 6-CH EU Series digital I/O – the ECAT-4XMO motion control and trigger module, and the ECAT-TRG4 trigger modules. The...

A Robot that Teaches Itself to Walk Using Reinforcement Learning

A team of researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, has built a two-legged robot with the ability to teach itself to walk using...

Introducing Game-Changing Dynamics in Aviation

Kasstech’s team of trained engineers not only repair and maintain airframe and engines but also provide maintenance support to large UAVs, said Vivek Saxena,...

Self-Driving Cars and the Highway Code

Robotic vehicles have been used in dangerous environments for decades, from decommissioning the Fukushima nuclear power plant or inspecting underwater energy infrastructure in the North Sea. More recently,...

New Research Identifies Three-Point Plan to Successful Intelligent Automation Implementations

Businesses need greater executive buy-in, implementation across the organization, and more robust governance if their intelligent automation deployments are to succeed, according to new...

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