On Tuesday, Stellantis announced that making use of BlackBerry technology and Amazon’s computing power, it had created a ‘virtual cockpit’ to develop and test new versions of car systems and controls in one day instead of months. They explained that…
Category: Robotic Sensors
Wearable Robotic Devices Improves Walking for Parkinson’s Patients
Parkinson’s is a debilitating neurodegenerative disorder affecting over 153,000 people in the United Kingdom and 9 million globally. People living with Parkinson’s often find themselves suddenly losing the ability to move their feet or start shuffling their feet as they…
Eye-Tracking Technology Provides Information on Sightseeing Tours
The AR Interactive Vehicle Display was developed to assist sightseeing tours by illustrating relevant information on the window glass of the vehicle. Making its debut at CES next week, the technology was developed by the Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI)…
AI-Assisted Pianos Enable Disabled Performers Play Beethoven
Using an artificial intelligence-powered piano, musicians with disabilities can now perform Beethoven’s symphonies. ‘Anybody’s Piano’, in its bid to assist players, tracks the music notes and augments the performance by adding the required keys that are not pressed. 24-year-old Kiwa…
AI Companion Helps Seniors Experiencing Loneliness
Florida senior community residents, Joyce Loaiza and Deanna Dezern, were some of the first people in the U.S. to receive ElliQ, an artificial intelligence robot created by Intuition Robotics designed to reduce isolation and loneliness experienced by senior citizens. Whenever…
Robo-dog Sets New Guinness World Record
HOUND, a novel four-legged robotic dog, recently set a new Guiness World Record for the fastest 100-meter dash by a quadruped robot. Designed by Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology’s (KAIST) Dynamic Robot Control and Design Laboratory, HOUND ran…
Novel Mind-reading AI Converts Thoughts to Texts
For the first time, a research team at the GrapheneX-UTS Human-centric Artificial Intelligence Centre from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) developed a non-invasive portal system which can decipher thoughts and convert them into text. This technology would be particularly…
Drones With Defibrillators Save Cardiac Arrest Patients
Researchers from the Karolinska Institutet have been studying the concept of drones fitted with Automated External Defibrillators (AEDs) for emergency cardiac arrest patients, rather than sending only an ambulance. They discovered that in over 50% of the cases, the drones…
Researchers Study AI Accessibility for People with Disabilities
Researchers at the University of Washington recently conducted a three-month autoethnographic study to test the utility of AI tools for accessibility. They found that although the tools were helpful sometimes, the tools had significant problems when generating images, writing Slack…
Worker Crushed to Death by Industrial Robot
On Thursday, the South Korean police announced that an industrial robot had crushed to death a worker at a vegetable packaging plant. There is an ongoing investigation into the safety or potential defects of the machine. According to the police…