AI-powered Exoskeleton To Predict And Eliminate Hand Tremors
Scientists from the New York University and University of Western Ontario have created an AI algorithm for enhancing robotic solutions like exoskeletons to stop pathological hand tremors, associated with neurodegenerative diseases, like Parkinson’s disease. In the article “PHTNet: Characterization and Deep Mining of Involuntary Pathological…
Intel Applies AI For Gender Equality
Israeli office has employed AI for International Women’s Day to advise women on their career paths, reported The Times of Israel on March 9. The project “AI for Women” was initiated by Bella Abrahams at Intel with a goal to promote gender equality at the…
Zoo In UEA Pilots AI For Wildlife Conservation
Al Ain Zoo in UAE is piloting the AI project with animal identification software with a goal to safe rare wildlife species, reported news outlet The National on March 9. For now the AI system has been trained to recognize “three flagship species as they…
Hailo Raises $60M For AI-Chip
Israeli startup Hailo has attracted $60 million of funding with its new deep learning chip technology, reported Tech Crunch on March 5. Innovative architecture of its deep learning chip allow it to run faster and more efficient – according to the company, it will run…
DeepMind Openly Shares AI-Generated Findings On Coronavirus
DeepMind, Google’s AI unit, has openly released the AI-generated structure predictions of coronavirus “to contribute to the scientific effort” in stopping the virus spread, shared company in the blog on March 4. Recently developed DeepMind’s deep learning system AlphaFold is focusing on “free modelling”, or…
AI Maps Out Real-Time Coronavirus Data
HealthMap is now updating its coronavirus spread map in real time, using artificial intelligence, reported Wall Street Journal on March 5. Co-founder of HealthMap John Brownstein shared that since other coronavirus maps update their data once a day, the team felt that there is a…
New Type Of Artificial Eye Recognises Images in Nanoseconds
Researchers from the Vienna University of Technology have presented a new type of artificial eye that combines light-sensing electronics with a neural network on a single chip with a capacity to preprocess data in nanoseconds, before sending it to the brain. While usually computer vision…
Autonomous Ship To Cross Atlantic
IBM and Promara will perform first trials of their AI-powered fully autonomous Ship Mayflower, which is set to cross Atlantic Ocean without human intervention in September. September mission aims to set the first crewless ship on the historical route across Atlantic Ocean, on which the…
AI To Increase Efficiency Of Sleep Medicine
American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) shared research results, stating that AI-powered data analysis has a potential to increase efficiency and precision of sleep medicine, shared the organization in the press release on March 2: “Combined with other sources of health data, AI is expected…
AI Helps Track Tour de France Cyclists
Official technology partner of Tour de France has won the B2B annual marketing award on Marketing Week with outstanding results, derived from using such technologies like AI, during the global cycling promo campaign. Unlike tennis tournaments and football matches, cycling events historically have not enjoyed…
