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Robotics

Towing and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot,the AI Trends Insider Towing something behind your car is not as easy as it might seem. When I was in my teens, a good friend had a boat that we used to take with us when his family went on camping outings to the local lake.  His father would take charge of […]

AI Influencing Emerging Education Tech Companies

AI technology is being incorporated in solutions offered by some of the 11 startups or newcomers to education chosen from a field of more than 40 companies as “emerging partners” by the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) for the 2018-19 school year. The program introduces companies to state-level digital education leaders, where they can gain insights into […]

Tit-for-Tat and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider When I get to work each morning, I often see a duel between car drivers when they reach the gate that goes into the workplace parking garage. Let me describe the situation for you. For those drivers such as me that tend to come into the parking garage […]

New Breed of AI Weeders Could Disrupt the $100 Billion Pesticides Industry

A new solar-powered weed killer robot that looks like a table on wheels, can scan rows and rows of crops with its camera and zap weeds with jets of blue liquid as soon as they are identified. The liquid will be replaced by a weed killer spray as soon as final tests are complete. This […]

Yanny vs. Laurel: Sensory Illusions and AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, AI Trends Insider Are you a Yanny or a Laurel? Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you likely know about the recent craze over an audio clip that has created a social media frenzy and sparked a debate among both friends and foes alike. A short audio clip that was posted […]

Federated Machine Learning for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Machine Learning (ML) is essential for the advent and further progress of AI self-driving cars. The nature of how Machine Learning is being undertaken today for AI self-driving cars will undoubtedly evolve and become more sophisticated over time. One crucial aspect for Machine Learning in the context of […]

Non-Stop AI Self-Driving Cars: Truths and Consequences

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider How often do you use your car? I am betting you likely use your car in the morning to drive to work, and it then sits there, parked, until you drive home after work. For much of the time, you aren’t actively using your car and instead it […]

Self-Adapting Resiliency for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider Have you ever seen a brittle star? I’m not talking about stars in the night time sky – I’m referring to the ocean-going type of star. The brittle star is an ophiuroid that crawls along the sea floor. The crawling motion is undertaken by the use of its […]

Pre-Mortem Analysis for AI Self-Driving Cars

By Lance Eliot, the AI Trends Insider I’m sure that you are familiar with the term post-mortem. We see in the news all the time that when someone dies, and if there are suspicious circumstances, there is a post-mortem done to identify what happened and how the person died. Did the bullet enter into the […]

Richard Liu, Founder of JD.com, China’s Largest Retailer, Envisions A ‘100%’ Robot Workforce

“I hope my company would be 100% automation someday … no human beings anymore, 100% operated by AI and robots.” That’s Richard Liu’s audacious goal, which he outlined to my colleague David Roth* in a rare, just-released interview conducted in English at the World Retail Congress in Madrid last week. Liu is the 44-year-old founder, CEO and […]