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Collaborative Robots in Automotive Manufacturing - WhatNext

Collaborative Robots in Automotive Manufacturing

Robots are being used in the automotive industry ever since the 1960s. But recently there has been much talk about Cobots or collaborative robots. So, what are Cobots? How are they different to the older generation of industrial robots? How are they relevant to the changing face of automotive manufacturing? Challenges with earlier generation of …

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Machine Learning Inference Chips, Custom Designed By Amazon

Amazon Web Services, Amazon’s cloud business is not just sticking to software anymore. It is also building hardware chips. At its ongoing “AWS re:Invent Conference” in Las Vegas , it has unveiled 2 new chips and 13 new machine learning capabilities and services to attract more developers to AWS by broadening its range of tools …

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Enhancing reinforcement learning one game at a time

Competitive video games have been the major proving grounds for artificial intelligence research since the beginning of the field. Chess was an early challenge and the IBM Deep Blue successful match with Chess grand-master Gary Kasparov was widely covered in the popular media. It can also be credited to bring artificial intelligence in the consciousness …

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Horizon Robotics becomes highest valued AI chip startup

AI chip startups are the hottest investment space in Artificial Intelligence startups in recent years. This is a huge positive for investment in semiconductor startup space as the investment had almost dried out in the 2000’s. Developing a new chip is an extremely costly affair where design and manufacturing costs run over 100 million USD. …

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Software for Autonomous Driving - What Next

New company to integrate control software for autonomous driving

It is clear that autonomous driving is now the most important idea for driving investment and research activity in the automotive sector. Most automotive OEMs and their tier-1 suppliers are scrambling to announce their research efforts in this direction to make sure that they are not left out from the on-going technological shift. Most car …

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Activation Atlases – A new way of peering into the ‘black box’ of neural networks

Deep learning and artificial intelligence is the most hyped buzzword these days and it has attracted a great deal of capital and research interest across all the major technology hubs in the world. Not just companies, even countries have come up with AI strategies and vision documents! AI conquering games such as chess, Go and …

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Can AI itself automatically create new AI applications?!!

AI has been generating hype in the past few years. This can be attributed to the futuristic media coverage about superhuman AI. Furthermore, films and television sci-fi content has projected artificial intelligence as a threat to mankind. Real commercial applications and challenges of AI seem to be lost deluge of such content. For a large …

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The Agricultural Revolution begins with the help of AI and Robotics

Almost all the process of agriculture has been automated to some extent. Harvesting has also been done mechanically for decades in crops such as potatoes and wheat. But, for crops like iceberg lettuce, tomatoes, strawberry, and other delicate fruits and vegetables, it is still challenging. Currently, available types of robots can’t be employed in the …

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