AI, Robotics, Automation: The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Here

Originally shared by Wasim Muklashy

AI, Robotics, Automation: The Fourth Industrial Revolution Is Here

"For Chinese guests at Marriott International hotels, the check-in process will soon get easier. The hotel giant announced last summer that it's developing facial recognition systems that will allow guests to check in at a kiosk in less than a minute via a quick scan of their facial features.

Half a world away, fearful of what such technological advances will mean to their future job security, thousands of Marriott workers across the United States voted this fall to authorize their union to strike. In addition to calls for higher wages and better workplace safety, they pushed for procedures to protect them from the looming impact of technological advancement. "You are not going to stop technology. The question is whether workers will be partners in its deployment or bystanders that get run over by it," the union's president told The New York Times.
Indeed, what many are calling "the Fourth Industrial Revolution" is already here, disrupting jobs and labor markets, largely because of the rise and advance of artificial intelligence and robotics..."
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2019/01/ai-robotics-automation-fourth-industrial-revolution-here

#future = #REALnews #robots #tech #innovation #science #design #singularity #engineering #automation #AI #artificialintelligence #economy #finance #universalbasicincome #basicincome #money #UBI 
https://www.ecnmag.com/news/2019/01/ai-robotics-automation-fourth-industrial-revolution-here

What's your favorite out of 13 photos?

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What's your favorite out of 13 photos?
I love the under water model that can capture footage.
Check more picture and read the trends in Robot industry!
#future #technology #futuristic #robotics #robotica #ingenieros #engineering #artificial #intelligence

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Artificial intelligence is entering the justice system

Originally shared by Wasim Muklashy

Artificial intelligence is entering the justice system

Bad news for crooks: RAVN’s AI speeds up the document-sifting process - and is more accurate than humans...

"The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) had a problem. Its investigation into corruption at Rolls-Royce was inching towards a conclusion, but four years of digging had produced 30 million documents. These needed to be sorted into "privileged" and "non-privileged", a legal requirement that involves paying junior barristers to do months of repetitive paperwork. "We needed a way that was faster," says Ben Denison, chief technology officer at the SFO. So, in January 2016, he started working with RAVN..."

#future = #REALnews #robots #tech #innovation #science #design #singularity #engineering #automation #AI #artificialintelligence #economy #finance #universalbasicincome #basicincome #money #UBI 

Artificial intelligence is entering the justice system | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ravn-artificial-intelligence-peter-wallqvist
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/ravn-artificial-intelligence-peter-wallqvist

Researcher Points to How We Will Work with AI in the Near Future

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Researcher Points to How We Will Work with AI in the Near Future

"Dr. Michael Harré an artificial  intelligence enthusiast and lecturer in Complex Systems at the University of Sydney, believes living and working with AI will force the world to reassess basic assumptions about our sense of self.

"What will it be like to regularly confront an AI, or a robot with an AI in it, that behaves like a human?"

"What will it be like to regularly confront an AI, or a robot with an AI in it, that behaves like a human?" Harré asks. "The fact that we will be interacting with the appearance of consciousness in things that are clearly not biological will be enough for us to at least unconsciously revise what we think consciousness is."..."

#future = #robots #tech #innovation #science #design #singularity #engineering #automation #AI #artificialintelligence #economy #finance #universalbasicincome #basicincome #money #UBI 

http://www.33rdsquare.com/2017/04/researcher-points-to-how-we-will-work.html

Yep, brace yourselves, The Matrix is coming: Scientists discover how to upload knowledge to your #brain.

Originally shared by Jason Mayes

Yep, brace yourselves, The Matrix is coming: Scientists discover how to upload knowledge to your #brain. #Engineering #Science #ComputerScience #NeuroScience
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/01/scientists-discover-how-to-download-knowledge-to-your-brain/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/03/01/scientists-discover-how-to-download-knowledge-to-your-brain/

Attracting young talents to #STEM subjects and encouraging them to pursue careers in #engineering is important in...

Originally shared by Esben Østergaard

Attracting young talents to #STEM subjects and encouraging them to pursue careers in #engineering is important in order to guarantee future innovation. As there is a gender gap in this field, e.g. only 18-20 per cent of engineering students at US colleges are women, there is a need for strong figures to attract new talents. Simone Giertz, 25 and YouTube star, is just that: a charismatic engineer, building functional (and funny) #robots. In your opinion: Is this the right approach? What would you suggest for attracting kids to #technology? http://bit.ly/2cwwsrQ
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#eco #green #water #engineering

#eco #green #water #engineering

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Student’s Faucet Design Saves Water By Swirling It Into Beautiful Patterns

#robotics

#robotics  

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DARPA's ATLAS Humanoid Robots!
NASA is exploring peaceful civilian space applications for ATLAS-related technologies. Atlas is a new humanoid robot 6 foot, 2 inches tall weighing 330 pounds. Atlas is initially being designed to provide humanitarian assistance in disaster response/crisis situations.

NASA's Johnson Space Center (Valkyrie) and Jet Propulsion Laboratory (RoboSimian) teams are participating in the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) focused on developing innovative software to control the robot's functions. Last month, DARPA awarded funds and an Atlas robot to 7 teams who competed in a software challenge leading up to the first leg of the Robotics Challenge, which kicks off in December 2013.

According to the project website, the goal of the DARPA Robotics Challenge is to create robotic systems that can work "in tandem with their human counterparts, in order to reduce casualties, avoid further destruction, and save lives."

Atlas can travel through rough terrain outdoors and climb using its hands and feet. The robot features two fully working hands with four fingers, including opposable thumbs, 28 hydraulically actuated joints, a "head" with LIDAR and stereo sensors, automatic crash protection, and an on-board, real-time control computer. In a demonstration video, Atlas easily avoided obstacles, maintaining a steady gait despite unexpected changes to the terrain, and even maintained its balance when struck by a large object.

"Articulated, sensate hands will enable Atlas to use tools designed for human use," Boston Dynamics says. "Atlas includes 28 hydraulically actuated degrees of freedom, two hands, arms, legs, feet, and a torso."
Its head includes stereo cameras and a laser range finder. It's currently tethered to an off-board, electric power supply which limits its range for the moment.

Specifications:
- Six feet, two inches tall (1.88m)
- 330 pounds (150kg)
- On-board real-time control computer
- On-board hydraulic pump and thermal management
- Tethered for networking & 480-V three-phase power at 15 kW
- Two arms, two legs, a torso and a head
- 28 hydraulically actuated joints
- Carnegie Robotics sensor head with LIDAR and stereo sensors
- Two sets of hands, one provided by iRobot and one by Sandia National Labs

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is an agency of the United States Department of Defense responsible for the development of new technologies for use by the military.

Boston Dynamics is an engineering and robotics design company best known for the development of the humanoid robot ATLAS and BigDog, a quadruped robot, both designed for the U.S. military with funding from DARPA. The company was spunoff from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

The DRC groups are not starting from scratch: thanks to the physical modeling of the DRC Simulator, the software algorithms successfully employed by teams in the previously held Virtual Robotics Competition (VRC) should transfer relatively easily to the ATLAS hardware, according to DARPA officials. The teams will be presented with tasks for ATLAS, such as driving a utility vehicle, walking over uneven terrain, clearing debris, breaking through a wall, closing a valve, and connecting a fire hose.

Ultimately, despite its advanced nature, ATLAS is essentially a physical shell awaiting its software brains that, along with the actions of a human operator, will guide the suite of sensors, actuators, joints and limbs through a series of tasks.

In order to accomplish this, the winning teams will receive funding from DARPA and ongoing technical support from Boston Dynamics, the developer of ATLAS.

Dr. GIll Pratt, Program Manager for the challenge, said DARPA is investing in an open-source simulation package to advance the state of the art in robotic simulation. "In particular, we want to have these tools outlast the program and be the foundation for catalyzing the field of robotics, particularly helping to make the design of robots move from an art to a science,"  he said. DARPA is also funding the Open Source Robotics Foundation to further develop a preexisting simulator that will use cloud computing for quick and easy scalability.

NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Johnson Space Center 

Credit: DARPA/Boston Dynamics, CNET, IEEE Spectrum

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Love smart solutions like that! Very cozy and modern tiny loft ;)

Love smart solutions like that! Very cozy and modern tiny loft ;)

#architecture   #smart   #creative   #engineering  

Originally shared by Ward Plunet

Minimalism: 180 Square Foot Loft

I found this gem today, it’s a 180 square foot loft apartment that is lived in by two New Yorkers.  The place features a ton of shelves for all their books, a nice looking bathroom, a decent sized kitchen and a small reading and meditation nook.  While there are some modern flairs to this space, the warm wood tones make it feel very cozy and homey.
http://www.thetinylife.com/180-square-foot-loft/

The Bristol Technology Engineering Academy

The Bristol Technology Engineering Academy

The Bristol Technology Engineering Academy will open in September 2013 and will specialise in engineering and environmental technologies. The BTE Academy is co-sponsored by the employers Airbus, GKN Aerospace, The University of the West of England and by City of Bristol College. Rolls-Royce are also an industrial supporter.


#bristol   #uwe   #technology   #engineering   #academy     #btea   #bteacademy   #airbus   #rollsroyce   #aerospace  
http://www.bteacademy.co.uk/