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also it’s always like “hey im jessica, this is my baby, his name is chainsaw slasher, he is made of titanium, spinning blades, and fire. i love him dearly” vs “im karter, this is my vile creation, it’s called princess pinky sparkles the kitten bot, it is covered in rinestones and throws glitter at its oponents, god hates me for creating it but is too afraid to challenge me.” and then princess pinky sparkles the kitten bot demolishes chainsaw slasher while both the creators watch with glee
competitive sports are not my thing at all but holy fuck i love bot fights- killing machines with googly eyes beat the shit out of each other while the nerds controlling them look absolutely giddy? 10/10 fucking incredible entertainment
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Travelmate: A New Voyage through Robotics
The combination of Artificial Intelligence and robotics in and outside the factory to automate tasks is indeed powerful. AI has begun to witness an increasingly common presence in robotic solutions in recent years, which has introduced flexibility and ability to learn in previously rigid applications.
Although AI is still at its beginnings, for some applications in the production sector, it has been a transformative technology although many are to experience its effect. Many companies have created innovations in this regard.
Read More: Travel Mate Robotics
Among them, Travelmate Robotics is one of the world’s leading robotic companies best known for their robotic case. By redefining “smart” consumer products, the company has truly innovated and disrupted the emerging IoT paradigm. By creating a robot with valuable cases, Travelmate has disrupted the market.
They have invented a robot suitcase which follows the customer as they move. The experience is like following the customer on a voyage by a dedicated butler
The (E-) Doctor Is In: What Trends to Spot in Healthcare Technology Today
“Disruptive technologies” are the trending watchwords du jour, a catchphrase that encapsulates the displacement of existing market models with change, innovation and upheaval, and this phenomenon is as relevant as ever right now in the field of healthcare and medicine.
Earlier in the year, three behemoth corporate players, who are not traditionally associated with Healthcare— Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JP Morgan Chase— forged a partnership to leverage state-of-the-art healthcare technology to provide to their employees “simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.”
So what is in the cards for the ever-evolving face of healthcare technology today?
Artificial Intelligence
AI has transformed the way healthcare providers render their services and how patients experience their level of care, in areas such as clinical diagnostic accuracy, acute care rehabilitation, predictive disease analysis, hospital operations, and population health.
It is an area that is teeming with possibilities for growth: by 2035, workplace productivity is projected to spike by as much as 35 percent and surpass the $6 billion mark as AI continues to play an integral part in alleviating physician shortage and patient congestion, as well as adopting more optimal and precise treatment plans.
As patients increasingly want more control over personal healthcare decisions, AI, Deep Learning and digital image content analysis can be tapped to analyze and anticipate disease, devise optimal care approaches and design methodologies of diagnosis and treatment of medical malaise. Pathology and Radiology specialties are in the early stages of AI transformation.
Augmented Reality
Immersive technologies such as Augmented Reality (AR) can be a huge opportunity for advanced visualization for healthcare providers and their patients, with a projected market share of $90 billion by 2020.
For example, images from a real-world environment such as the OR can be embedded with computer-generated sensory input such as sound, video, and graphics, enabling surgeons to navigate their way around minimally invasive procedures or to develop 3D reconstructions of tumors without resorting to radiation exposure. Virtual apps have also been used to educate patients on the use of AEDs or defibrillators.
Wearables, IoT and Mobile Health Apps
The growing business of preventative care in the form of wearables—whether as part of corporate wellness programs or individual health and fitness markets—is expected to rise to $12.1 billion by 2021.
Remote health monitoring via wearables and mobile health apps could lead to a notable decrease in hospitalizations and ensure that those who need urgent care will have access to it more readily and with greater ease. For instance, the digital contact lens can be worn by diabetics to measure and maintain their blood sugar levels.
The advantages of wearables are diverse: they have user-friendly interfaces and boast of connectivity features such as wireless data transmission, real-time feedback, and alerting mechanisms, granting patients secured access to their health records and providing quicker diagnosis and treatment of conditions such as arrhythmia, asthma, and COPD.
Telemedicine
Although the words telemedicine and telehealth are likely to become obsolete within five years, the use of the latest technology advancements to provide healthcare to patients will become commonplace globally.
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Setting the Story Straight on AI
In the movie Ex Machina (2014), a technologist creates a robot that is so lifelike and self-aware that she can pass for human. When her inventor tasks a young programmer with testing the limits of her capabilities, she surprises both men with her capacity for creativity and deception.
While this makes for an entertaining storyline, the reality is that we’re still a long way from seeing robots of any real sophistication when it comes to true artificial intelligence (AI). Articles in newspapers and on media sites would have you think otherwise, often positioning robots, machine learning systems, and even algorithms as different types of AI.
However, while these kinds of systems are developed while working on AI research and development, they don’t display any real intelligence.
Complete Read Here: Setting the Story Straight on AI
Threats in IoT/M2M and How to face it?
The new found capability of the Internet of things enables enterprises to create value in many new ways. This world of internet connected things, where humans interact with machines and machines talking to other machinery devices (M2M) are here to stay. In reality, M2M is viewed as a subdivision of Internet of things (IoT).
IOT/M2M
It is an encompassing phenomenon that includes Machine-to-human communication (M2H), Radio frequency identification (RFI), Location-based services (LBS), Lab-on-a-chip sensor (LCS), augmented reality, robotics, and vehicular telematics. The adoption rate of IoT is increasing five times faster than the adoption of electricity and mobile devices.
IoT sector finally stepped into PKI (public key infrastructure) which is a mechanism for naming and distributing public encryption keys. PKI plays a crucial role in increasing IoT security. This enables the secured exchange of data across the internet.
Using PKI, sending or receiving of data can be easily validated. PKI deployments have jumped to 23 percent since 2015, and about 49 percent of IoT firms are partially encrypting data. The rate of hiring percentage of IoT specialists has also increased.
For the protection of IoT users, Jerry Brown, the governor of California has signed first IoT security legislation into law which will be active by 2020. This legislation includes vital points like stopping unauthorized access, preventing unwanted modifications, and providing a unique password for every IoT devices. IoT devices not only share the information across the networks but also aid in financial transactions.
Complete Insights Here: How to Face Threats in IoT/M2M
Next level Robotics: Artificial Intelligence - Programmed Robots - Will They Complement?
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The Importance of AI in Automation
In this race for applying AI in unique and attractive ways, an important piece of the AI learning curve is missing—the flashy AI technology used at the front end cannot be fully appreciated without a complex infrastructure that comprises end-to-end process automation. Read More
Roboticists are putting a tremendous amount of time and effort into finding the right combination of sensors and algorithms that will keep their drones from smashing into things. It’s a very difficult problem: With a few exceptions, you’ve got small platforms that move fast and don’t have the payload capability for the kind of sensors or computers that you really need to do real-time avoidance of things like trees or powerlines. And without obstacle avoidance, how will we ever have drones that can deliver new athletic socks to our doorstep in 30 minutes or less?
At the University of Pennsylvania’s GRASP Lab, where they’ve been working very very hard at getting quadrotors to fly through windows without running into them, Yash Mulgaonkar, Luis Guerrero-Bonilla, Anurag Makineni, and Professor Vijay Kumar have come up with what seems to be a much simpler solution for navigation and obstacle avoidance with swarms of small aerial robots: Give them a roll cage, and just let them run into whatever is in their way. Seriously, it’ll be fine!
This kind of “it’ll be fine” philosophy is what you find in most small flying insects, like bees: They don’t worry all that much about bumbling into stuff, or each other, they just kind of shrug it off and keep on going. Or, if you’re a roboticist, you might say something like, “The penalty due to collisions is small at these scales and sensors and controllers are not precise enough to guarantee collision free trajectories,” so stop trying to solve the collision problem, and just focus on not completely trashing yourself when you hit something. (Swiss startup Flyability was among the first to demonstrate the benefits of collision robustness by equipping a regular-size drone with a gimballed protective cage and flying through forests and ice caves.)
The first worry I have follows from one of the five principles of robotics, which states: robots should not be designed in a deceptive way to exploit vulnerable users; instead their machine nature should be transparent.
To design a gendered robot is a deception. Robots cannot have a gender in any meaningful sense. To impose a gender on a robot, either by design of its outward appearance, or programming some gender stereotypical behaviour, cannot be for reasons other than deception – to make humans believe that the robot has gender, or gender specific characteristics.
When we drafted our 4th ethical principle the vulnerable people we had in mind were children, the elderly or disabled. We were concerned that naive robot users may come to believe that the robot interacting with them (caring for them perhaps) is a real person, and that the care the robot is expressing for them is real. Or that an unscrupulous robot manufacture exploits that belief. But when it comes to gender we are all vulnerable. Whether we like it or not, we all react to gender cues. So whether deliberately designed to do so or not, a gendered robot will trigger reactions that a non-gendered robot will not.
Our 4th principle states that a robot’s machine nature should be transparent. But for gendered robots that principle doesn’t go far enough. Gender cues are so powerful that even very transparently machine-like robots with a female body shape, for instance, will provoke a gender-cued response.
My second concern leads from an ethical problem that I’ve written and talked about before: the brain-body mismatch problem. I’ve argued that we shouldn’t be building android robots at all until we can embed an AI into those robots that matches their appearance. Why? Because our reactions to a robot are strongly influenced by its appearance. If it looks human then we, not unreasonably, expect it to behave like a human. But a robot not much smarter than a washing machine cannot behave like a human. Ok, you might say, if and when we can build robots with human-equivalent intelligence, would I be ok with that? Yes, provided they are androgynous.
My third – and perhaps most serious concern – is about sexism. By building gendered robots there is a huge danger of transferring one of the evils of human culture: sexism, into the artificial realm. By gendering and especially sexualising robots we surely objectify. But how can you objectify an object, you might say? The problem is that a sexualised robot is no longer just an object, because of what it represents. The routine objectification of women (or men) because of ubiquitous sexualised robots will surely only deepen the already acute problem of the objectification of real women and girls. (Of course if humanity were to grow up and cure itself of the cancer of sexism, then this concern would disappear.)
What of the far future? Given that gender is a social construct then a society of robots existing alongside humans might invent gender for themselves. Perhaps nothing like male and female at all. Now that would be interesting.
Alan Winfield is Professor in robotics at UWE Bristol. He communicates about science on his personal blog… read more
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