Logistics startup Zipline's new next-generation delivery drone, dubbed the Platform 2 or P2 Zip can autonomously recharge by parking itself to the hanging charging stations. Zipline's new drone, dubbed the Platform 2 or P2 Zip, is capable of carrying up to eight pounds worth of cargo within a ten-mile radius, and can land a package on a space as small as a table or doorstep. Logistics startup Zipline has flown more than 38 million miles with its autonomous electric delivery drones sin...

University of Manchester scientists have created a new material, dubbed ‘StarCrete’ which is made from extra-terrestrial dust, potato starch, and a pinch of salt and could be used to build homes on Mars. Building infrastructure in space is currently prohibitively expensive and difficult to achieve. Future space construction will need to rely on simple materials that are easily available to astronauts, StarCrete offers one possible solution. The scientists behind the invention used simula...

Britvic-owned Aqua Libra has created a WasteShark robot thats collect and remove plastic waste from the waterways. It was deployed in London's in Middle Dock at Canary Wharf in partnership with the Canary Wharf Group. The WasteShark is a marine robot designed to be harmonious with the environment, which will clear plastic waste from the area's bodies of water while collecting data to improve the surroundings. Aqua Libra, best known for its range of infused sparkling waters, is committe...

Tomorrow Bio is a mission driven organization based in Berlin that provides medical standby, medical biostasis teams, ensures readiness and training, and more. Tomorrow Biostasis offers cryopreservation program in Europe so you can potentially be revived in the future to live an extended life. Cryopreservation or cryoconservation is a process where biological material - cells, tissues, or organs - are frozen to preserve the material for an extended period of time. At low temperatures any ...

Toward the quantum future The Superconducting Quantum Materials and Systems Center, led by Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, is one of five research centers funded by the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a national initiative to develop and deploy the world’s most powerful quantum computers and sensors. SQMS brings together more than 400 experts from 28 partner institutions—national laboratories, academia and industry—in a mission-driven, multidisciplinary collaboration that...

RESEARCHERS DISCOVER AN UNEXPECTED LINK BETWEEN DNA WINDING AND METABOLISM IN THE GUT TO AMELIORATE AGEING Our genetic material is stored in our cells in a specific way to make the meter-long DNA molecule fit into the tiny cell nucleus of each body cell. An international team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Biology of Ageing, the CECAD Cluster of Excellence in Ageing research at the University of Cologne, the University College London and the University of Michigan have now be...

BioGPT is a type of generative language model, trained on millions of previously published biomedical research articles. Pre-trained language models have attracted increasing attention in the biomedical domain, inspired by their great success in the general natural language domain. Among the two main branches of pre-trained language models in the general language domain, i.e. BERT (and its variants) and GPT (and its variants), the first one has been extensively studied in the biomedical doma...

Researchers in Delft have succeeded in teleporting quantum information across a rudimentary network. This first of its kind is an important step towards a future quantum Internet. This breakthrough was made possible by a greatly improved quantum memory and enhanced quality of the quantum links between the three nodes of the network. The researchers, working at QuTech—a collaboration between Delft University of Technology and the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO)—are...

VisiRad™ computer vision helps radiologists see lung cancer in medical imaging. Through the power of deep learning and clinical expertise. IMIDEX is an AI company dedicated to saving lives from lung cancer. Our computer vision algorithms provide a second set of eyes for radiologist to help identify lung cancer at an earlier stage when survival is more likely. It is conducting incidental nodule detection studies with health care providers to demonstrate the clinical performance and impact of ...

Cognosos, Inc., a leading Real-Time Location Services (RTLS) provider has introducted LocationAI, a highly-accurate, machine learning-powered location engine, into its asset tracking platform for hospitals and healthcare facilities. Ushering in the next generation of RTLS, this cutting-edge technology achieves room-level accuracy, without disturbing clinical workflows with complex installation processes or the need to place hardware in patient rooms that are typical with other systems. ...

'Tally Health' has developed new AI-powered tests that tells ones biological age by determining the speed at which organs, cells and tissues decline. The tests measure epigenetic patterns, or changes in the body that affect how genes behave. Unlike a calendar age. Unlike chronological age, biological age tells a story of how slowly or rapidly your internal body is aging. Compared to chronological age, biological age is a better predictor of how long you will live and how many of those yea...

Real-time Human Pose Estimation in the Browser with TensorFlow.js Posted by: Dan Oved, freelance creative technologist at Google Creative Lab, graduate student at ITP, NYU. Editing and illustrations: Irene Alvarado, creative technologist and Alexis Gallo, freelance graphic designer, at Google Creative Lab. UPDATE: PoseNet 2.0 has been released with improved accuracy (based on ResNet50), new API, weight quantization, and support for different image sizes. With defaI...

Dustin Schroeder, University of Washington Electrical engineers Babak Parviz and Brian Otis and undergraduate student Carlton Himes (right to left) demonstrate a circuit that runs entirely off tree power. Dustin Schroeder, University of Washington The custom circuit is able to store up enough voltage from trees to run a low-power sensor. You’ve heard about flower power. What about tree power? It turns out that it’s there, in small but measurable quantities. The...

Gaia GPS is the preferred nav app for outdoor professionals. • Quickly route to GPS coordinates, view recent wildfires, and share maps, tracks, & waypoints with your team. • Mark hiking trails, routes, campsites, & water sources. • Share data with clients & fellow guides. Gaia GPS's smart snap-to-trail route planning tool to reroute, explore side trails, and find your way back to the start. Gaia Overland is designed with Gaia GPS's prototypical file efficiency. This means you can...

RYSE RECON is an ultralight eVTOL. Built with purpose for people with purpose. So easy to operate — no pilot's license is needed. Electric Vertical Takeoff & Landing As easy to operate as an ATV. Safe. Efficient. Reliable. To get where you need to go, faster. Six independent motors. Six removable batteries. Zero carbon emissions. The Ryse Recon is a personal eVTOL multicopter aircraft with a top speed of up to 63 mph (101 km/h) and a range of 25 miles (40 km). It's a aluminum-framed R...

Kern AI is a German startup , which has built a platform for NLP developers and data scientists to not only control the labelling process, but automate and orchestrate tangential tasks and allow them to address low-quality data that comes their way. Kern AI libraries and tools aim at improving the data-centric AI lifecycle. Kern AI, a data-centric platform to build natural language interfaces. A no-code tool for machine learning so that business units could do machine learning themselves....

Ikea now has a smart home tabletop air quality sensor that can detect particles smaller than 2.5 micrometers. Clean indoor air is essential to our wellbeing, and one of the first steps to better air is increased awareness of indoor pollutants. The new VINDSTYRKA air quality sensor allows measuring and monitoring of indoor air pollutant levels, complementing the existing IKEA range of smart solutions that enable better air quality in the home. This sensor checks the air quality by moni...

Transcelestial Singapore based startup founded by, Rohit Jha & Mohammad Danesh have developed a CENTAURI's wireless laser communications technology that is reliable, secure connections for essential applications across a range of industries. ISPs. Transcelestial’s laser communications systems do away with underground cables, which are expensive to install and maintain, and radio-frequency-based devices, with their complicated spectrum of licensing regulations. As a result, Jha said T...

Researchers at Georgia Tech and Emory found wearable ankle exoskeletons helped subjects improve standing balance only if they activated before muscles fired. Wearable robotics promise to help older people retain their mobility and paraplegic patients regain theirs. They could help make humans stronger and faster. But, so far, they’re not great at keeping people from falling. Human balance is a complicated dance, and even the most advanced robots and wearables like robotic exoskeletons...

Microsoft AI that can simulate your voice from just 3 seconds of audio https://valle-demo.github.io/ Microsoft's - AI voice simulator capable of accurately immitating a person’s voice after listening to them speak for just three seconds. The VALL-E language model was trained using 60,000 hours of English speech from 7,000 different speakers in order to synthesize “high-quality personalised speech” from any unseen speaker. Once the artificial intelligence system has a person’s v...

AUTEC - Sushi making Robot Instead of traditional sushi chefs making sushi and rolls by hand as sushi chefs has done way back, restaurant chains have been investing in robots that produce the sushi on demand in record time and with perfect robot precision.For each step in making sushi there is a robot machine. Today it is possible to automize and optimize the hole sushi preparation process from washing the rice to sushi plate. No matter if you are a small food truck or a sushi factory there ...

Entry-level coding robot kit for kids. mBot is a STEM coding robot for beginners, which makes teaching and learning robot programming simple and fun. With a screwdriver and step-by-step instructions, kids can build a robot from scratch and experience the joys of hands-on creation. As they go, they will learn about a variety of robotic machinery. mBot is an educational playmate for children learning to build and program, and an excellent educational aid for teachers in STEAM lessons. It i...

DensePose, dense human pose estimation, is designed to map all human pixels of an RGB image to a 3D surface-based representation of the human body. This is done through the introduction of a large-scale, manually annotated dataset, and a variant of Mask-RCNN, a simple, flexible framework for object instance segmentation. Advances in computer vision and machine learning techniques have led to significant development in 2D and 3D human pose estimation from RGB cameras, LiDAR, and radars. H...

ADLINK Technology Inc. a global leader in edge computing, launched the NEON-2000-JNX series, the industry's first industrial AI smart camera that integrates the new NVIDIA Jetson Xavier NX module. The new camera's high performance, small form factor and ease of development open the door for innovative AI vision solutions in manufacturing, logistics, retail, service, agriculture, smart city, healthcare and life sciences, and other edge applications. ADLINK TechnologyADLINK Technology Inc. is ...

Livescribe paper-based computing platform includes a smartpen, dot paper and software applications that changes the way people capture, use and share audio and visual information with pen and paper. Simply Brilliant. The very definition of form and function, the Livescribe 3 smartpen marries elegant design with simple functionality. Each of our Livescribe pens are equipped with an IR camera that takes up to 72 snapshots per second, which captures and recreates your handwriting. Livesc...

In January 2020 Amazon Web Services Inc. (AWS) launched an open-source library called AutoGluon the library behind Sagemaker Autopilot. AutoGluon enables developers to write machine learning-based applications that use image, text or tabular data sets with just a few lines of code. autogluon.forecasting module automatically processes raw time series data into the appropriate format, and then trains and tunes various state-of-the-art deep learning models to produce accurate forecasts. ...

'ToolJet' is a Open-source low-code application development platform forbuilding and deploying business applications. You can build complicated frontends without any experience in React,CSS or event HTML. Drag and drop 35+ in-built UI components to build even complicated frontends. Drag and dropCustomize the component with in-built properties and styles without using a single line of code. The ability to create custom internal tools is a game-changer for companies. ToolJet is enabl...

HOSPI-Rimo serves as an intermediary to enable comfortablecommunication between people who are bed ridden or havelimited mobility to communicate with other people, forexample, their attending doctor in a separate room in thehospital or friends who live far away, as if they wereinteracting face to face. Panasonic developed “HOSPI”automatic medication delivery robot, which is used inhospitals in Japan and other countries. HOSPI-Rimo employs HOSPI’s autonomousmobility technology and high-definitio...