Out of necessity, Japan has been pushing on the robotics frontier for years. As a result, the proliferation and embrace of robots goes well beyond the Japanese factory floor to include schools, hospitals, nursing homes, airports, train stations and even temples.
Unfavourable demographics are spurring innovation — and investment opportunities.
No human stepped foot on the acre and a half barley farm. The manual labor in Hands Free Hectare was done entirely by robot farmers.
The new Nvidia Volta GPU computing platform is designed to accelerate AI for a broad range of enterprise and consumer applications, and will be adopted by Alibaba Cloud, Baidu, and Tencent in their data centres and cloud-service infrastructures, Nvidia said on Tuesday.
The new chip is claimed to be up to five times more powerful than the current Pascal-based chips deployed by the Chinese firms.
PUBLISHED : Tuesday, 26 September, 2017, 2:04pm.
UPDATED : Tuesday, 26 September, 2017, 4:00pm.
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency’s (DARPA) Electronics Resurgence Initiative’s will create six new programs over the next four years.
These are aimed at ensuring the predictions made by Moore’s law, which have governed the increases in microchip processing power, will continue to apply to chip development.
Three areas will be focused on, materials and integration, circuit design, and systems architecture.
Apple’s 1984 Macintosh revolutionized graphic design—but that was nothing compared to the coming wave of websites that’ll design themselves.
Caltech scientists have developed a “cargo sorting” DNA nanorobot programmed to autonomously “walk” around a surface, pick up certain molecules, and drop them off in designated locations.
The research is described in a paper in the Friday, September 15, 2017 issue of Science.
Open wide, because the robots have eyes on your dental work. South China Morning Post reports that a robo-dentist has autonomously implanted two new, 3D-printed teeth into a woman’s mouth.
The procedure, which appears to have made use of a robot arm from Universal Robotics, was developed by a team from the Fourth Military Medical University and Beihang University. The hardware first orients itself with the patient’s head, and is then programmed with the procedure it needs to undertake. It does a dry run to check that it’s got everything right, before the patient is given an anesthetic and the robot gets drilling. The team says that the robot works to tolerances of less than 0.3 millimeters, and can detect and compensate for movements of the person’s head.
Don’t fancy the idea? Well, bear in mind that it’s hoped the robot will be able to make up for a shortfall in the number of practicing dentists in China, which often leads to unqualified practitioners performing questionable procedures.
