#434660 Video Friday: Innfos Humanoid Robot, and ...

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Android

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos[Read more…]

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#434658 The Next Data-Driven Healthtech ...

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Android

Increasing your healthspan (i.e. making 100 years old the new 60) will depend to a large degree on artificial intelligence. And, as we saw in last week’s blog, healthcare AI systems are extremely data-hungry.
Fortunately, a slew of new sensors and data acquisition methods—including over 122 million wearables shipped in 2018—are bursting onto the scene to meet the massive demand for medical data.
From ubiquitous biosensors, to the mobile healthcare revolution, to the transformative power of the Health Nucleus, converging exponential […] Continue Reading…

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#434655 Purposeful Evolution: Creating an ...

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Android

More often than not, we fall into the trap of trying to predict and anticipate the future, forgetting that the future is up to us to envision and create. In the words of Buckminster Fuller, “We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.”
But how, exactly, do we create a “good” future? What does such a future look like to begin with?
In Future Consciousness: The Path to Purposeful Evolution, Tom Lombardo analytically deconstructs how we can […] Continue Reading…

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#434653 700,000 submunitions demilitarized by ...

Posted on February 21, 2019 by Android

More than 700,000 Multiple Launch Rocket System submunitions have been demilitarized since the Army started using an automated nine-robot system conceptualized, built and programmed by Sandia National Laboratories engineers.[Read more…]

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#434648 The Pediatric AI That Outperformed ...

Posted on February 20, 2019 by Android

Training a doctor takes years of grueling work in universities and hospitals. Building a doctor may be as easy as teaching an AI how to read.
Artificial intelligence has taken another step towards becoming an integral part of 21st-century medicine. New research out of Guangzhou, China, published February 11th in Nature Medicine Letters, has demonstrated a natural-language processing AI that is capable of out-performing rookie pediatricians in diagnosing common childhood ailments.
The massive study examined the electronic health records (EHR) from […] Continue Reading…

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