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Robocalls, telemarketing calls to increase amid government shutdown
Consumers may experience a surge in robocalls and telemarketing calls thanks to the partial government shutdown in the United States.
Even robots can get laid off
Japan’s all-robot hotel sacks half its robotic workforce after problems arise.
Researchers using AI to diagnose PTSD
A team of researchers in London has created a system using AI to diagnose patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Digital display designed for small modular reactor
A safety display and indication system based on field programmable gate array technology was designed for NuScale’s small modular reactor.
Watch: Art installation to play Toto's 'Africa' for the rest of time
Max Siedentopf, a 27-year-old German-Namibian artist, has created an art installation that will be around for the rest of time, or at least until the elements get to it.
Rare metal recovery from e-waste in Switzerland
Prospects for increasing the recovery and recycling of indium, neodymium and gold are examined.
Anymal traverses and inspects Zurich sewers
During testing the robot transmitted images and a mind-boggling 500,000 measurements per second back to the above-ground team.
Moonbounce turns 73
The results of a Jan. 10, 1946, experiment have powered various practical applications, including communications between distant ground receivers.
US tech companies facing hiring skills gap
According to a new report, U.S. tech companies are facing a hiring skills gap.
Scientists teach AI to identify facial features associated with rare disorders
Scientists have trained artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize facial feature characteristics suggestive of rare genetic disorders.
IoT sensors to predict train track and station faults
Researchers from the University of the West of England (UWE Bristol), engineering solutions company Costain and startup Enable My Team (EMT) have devised a system capable of predicting parts, equipment and device failures at train stations.
Wearable alerts emergency contacts of opiate overdose
The Hope Band improves opiate overdose response times and increases survival rates by alerting emergency contacts that the wearer has suffered an overdose.
China to Begin Tracking Students Using "Smart" Uniforms
Known for high-tech surveillance of its citizens, China is taking its efforts one step further with “smart uniforms” for school-age children, which are designed to track and monitor student locations to improve school attendance rates as well as to better monitor student safety.
NASA to Explore Ultima Thule on New Year's Day
NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft will kick off 2019 with another historic encounter: it will fly within 2,200 miles of Ultima Thule, a mysterious object in the Kuiper Belt.
Saelig Introduces IkaLogic SP2 Logic Analyzers
The nine channel design allows 8-bit parallel data to be captured along with a clock or strobe signal at the maximum sampling rate without any trade-off between the number of active channels and the sampling rate.
Researchers to Create Algorithm for Detecting and Eventually Predicting Crime at Sea
A surprising amount of crime takes place at sea, ranging from illegal fishing to drug smuggling and human trafficking. To detect, locate and eventually predict such activities, researchers from Oregon State University are developing new algorithms based on artificial intelligence and big data.
Video: Watch a 3D-Printed Robotic Hand Play Jingle Bells on the Piano
The mechanical design uses passive movement but was able to mimic different piano styles.
Nvidia Making Fake Faces with Machine Learning
Using a new type of generative adversarial network (GAN) technique, a team from tech company Nvidia created images of people who do not actually exist.
Watch: Robots Swarm into Organic Formations
By introducing biological principles of self-organization to swarm robotics, researchers have found it possible to get hundreds of coin-size robots to work together based only on local communication and movement – and without an underlying master plan.
Robots in Development to Offer a Hand in the Kitchen
Amid concerns over a robot revolution where some speculate that robots and AI will eventually take over tasks traditionally performed by humans, thereby making humans obsolete, comes word that robots are in development to take over at least some of the tasks in the kitchen.