Google’s Dialogflow – natural language understanding platform for conversational user interface & interactive voice response system

Posted on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 by 41629066

Dialogflow is a natural language understanding platform that makes it easy to design and integrate a conversational user interface into your mobile app, web application, device, bot, interactive voice response system, and so on. Using Dialogflow, you can provide new and engaging ways for users to interact with your product. Dialogflow can analyze multiple types of input from your customers, including text or audio inputs (like from a phone or voice recording). It can also respond to your cus...

Locusrobotics – Warehouse robots

Posted on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 by 41629066

Locus Robotics’ innovative autonomous mobile robots make it easy to optimize your warehouse operation, respond to e-commerce volume growth and seasonal peaks while giving you control over your labor costs. LocusBots operate safely alongside people, making them more efficient and effective compared to traditional order fulfillment systems. Workers are able to fulfill more orders with less labor without the need to reconfigure or disrupt your warehouse. Complete, end-to-end syste...

Kiwibot – robotics delivery

Posted on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 by 41629066

Kiwibot provides a turnkey robotic delivery service for Restaurant chains, delivery apps & Governments. Last-mile delivery is incredibly expensive; we reduce cost of last mile delivery by 40% YoY, kiwibot team continue to work with the customers until we get to <$1. Cutting-edge behavioral neural network, Kiwibots are able to seamlessly mesh into the fabric of urban landscapes. https://youtu.be/iyO9TJHEQ7E Technology used by kiwibots, like Smart Brake and Street Crossing Mo...

Caper – AI powered Smart shopping cart

Posted on October 17, 2020October 17, 2020 by 41629066

Innovative new technologies aimed at enhancing the customer shopping experience and to make it faster and easier. The Caper Smart Cart improves a retailer's entire customer shopping experience by streamlining checkout, and through an interactive screen, provide nearby deals, tailored recommendations, and recipes. It also complements existing retail operations without the need for any significant infrastructure or operational overhauls. The technology can be scaled quickly to serve many locat...

Google Sound Notification – to help user detect critical sounds-around you

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 by 41629066

Google has rolled out a new feature called Sound Notifications in the Live Transcribe app. It will make their phones flash, vibrate, and provide push notifications in case it detects a fire alarm, door knocking, beeps of household appliances and more such sound. Important household sounds become more accessible https://youtu.be/kLjFzY4TrEQ Appliances beeping. Water running. Dogs barking. These are all sounds that are meant to grab your attention when something important is happening....

Waymo is opening its fully driverless service to the general public in Phoenix

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 by 41629066

Beginning October 8, Waymo has started fully driverless offering to Waymo One riders. Members of the public service can now take friends and family along on their rides and share their experience with the world. In the near term, 100% of rides will be fully driverless. Waymo has been hard at work to bring the Waymo Driver to more and more people. In 2017, it began early rider program in the Metro Phoenix area with the next generation of our technology, using the full-size hybri...

Microsoft underwater datacenter

Posted on October 10, 2020October 10, 2020 by 41629066

The underwater datacenter concept splashed onto the scene at Microsoft in 2014 during ThinkWeek, an event that gathers employees to share out-of-the-box ideas. The concept was considered a potential way to provide lightning-quick cloud services to coastal populations and save energy. More than half the world’s population lives within 120 miles of the coast. By putting datacenters underwater near coastal cities, data would have a short distance to travel, leading to fast and smooth web surfin...

Amazon One – New Innovative contactless transaction and Identity system.

Posted on October 4, 2020October 4, 2020 by 41629066

Amazon One—a new innovation to make everyday activities effortless. Amazon One is a fast, convenient, contactless way for people to use their palm to make everyday activities like paying at a store, presenting a loyalty card, entering a location like a stadium, or badging into work more effortless. The service is designed to be highly secure and uses custom-built algorithms and hardware to create a person’s unique palm signature. https://youtu.be/xH_SVNVIfzk It takes less than a min...

ORCAM – Voice-activated device, communicating visual information, audibly.

Posted on September 27, 2020September 27, 2020 by 41629066

Wearable technology for people who are blind or visually impaired. Voice-activated device that provides increased independence by communicating visual information, audibly. With OrCam MyEye, you can read text, recognize faces, identify products & more https://youtu.be/bbEEmc0xtvw OrCam MyEyeFor People Who Are Visually Impaired OrCam MyEye is a revolutionary voice activated device that attaches to virtually any glasses. It can instantly read to you text from a book, smar...

SkyDrive

Posted on September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by 41629066

Together with Japanese government and private enterprizes created the roadmap for flying car realization. With this time schedule, public and private are developing businesses and technologies. SkyDrive Conducts First Public Manned Flight in Japan – SD-03 manned model makes its world debut- SkyDrive Inc., a world-leading developer of urban air mobility solutions, is proud to announce that it conducted a public demonstration flight of its new SD-03 flying car model on August 25, 2020. ...

SAFR – AI-powered real-time facial recognition

Posted on September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by 41629066

SAFR for Security is the premier facial recognition solution for live video that’s both highly accurate and tuned for rapid performance. With 99.87 percent accuracy, SAFR for Security can instantly detect and match millions of faces in real time, even under challenging conditions where faces are in motion, at different angles, under poor lighting conditions, or partially obscured – reducing the number of false alarms and simplifying a security professional’s ability to secure an area with confi...

EyeQue – Personal Vision Tracker

Posted on September 13, 2020September 13, 2020 by 41629066

EyeQue allows you to use your smartphone, EyeQue personal vision tracker to measure eyesight (refraction error) and generate EyeGlass Numbers anywhere. Personal Vision Tracker is the an at-home solution to test your eyes, get EyeGlass Numbers, and use them to order eyeglasses. https://youtu.be/SjXdK9OyF5w EyeQue Insight Check your eyesightTest your glasses or contactsMonitor the whole family’s vision 5 Ways to Get to Know Your Eyes with the EyeQue Insight Test your d...

‘Three Square Market’ Microchip – ‘RFID’

Posted on August 23, 2020August 23, 2020 by 41629066

Three Square Market (32M) became the first company in the United States to offer implanted microchips to its employees. Their August 1 chip party, where over 50 employees were microchipped, some on live television, sparked worldwide debate and coverage. Their story generated over 1.5 billion hits on their websites in a few weeks and brought visits from major media outlets, Katie Couric, the Today Show and more. 32M promised then to introduce technology that ...

XIAOMI – TRANSPARENT TV

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 by 41629066

Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition is the world’s first mass-produced transparent TV. With an edge-to-edge transparent self-luminous display transmitting images that seem to be suspended in the air, this TV ushers in a new way to consume visual content previously only seen in science fiction films. Mi TV LUX Transparent Edition is priced at RMB 49,999, and official sales start at 10:00 on the morning of August 16.World’s first mass-produced transparent TVMi TV LUX Transparent Edition offers a perfec...

Microsoft Surface Duo

Posted on August 16, 2020August 16, 2020 by 41629066

New MS Surface Duo has - Two High-resolution PixelSense™ Touchscreens Open with a Revolutionary 360-degree Hinge. Fits in Your Pocket. Windows 10 Compatible. High-Resolution. 360-Degree Hinge. It allows to any two apps and launch simultaneously, each on a full screen, for a completely custom experience. Drag ingredients from a new recipe from one screen directly to your To Do list on the other for an instant shopping list. https://eus-streaming-video-rt-microsoft-com.akamaized.net...

Bio-Printing

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 by 41629066

3D Bioprint Service Three-dimensional (3D) bioprint, otherwise termed additive manufacturing, is driving major innovations in many fields, including manufacturing, engineering, art, education and medicine. Although a newly established technology, 3D bioprint has been developed at a rapid growth during the last decade. This approach helps to achieve increasingly cell-based therapies by working with diverse materials, like plastic, metal and ceramics. Creative Biolabs has employe...

‘Yanko Design’ – Smart Face Mask

Posted on August 2, 2020August 2, 2020 by 41629066

This smart face-mask can translate languages as you speak! C-Face Mask and you aren’t just granted clean, purified air… you also get the power to talk in multiple languages! Designed by Japan-based Donut Robotics, the C-Face mask is a universal mask-cover that fits on top of your standard face mask. Switch it on, and the C-Face mask connects to your smartphone, giving you a wide variety of smart features. Not only does it enable you to answer calls and talk to people without holdi...

ThinkPad Fold next generation laptop

Posted on July 18, 2020July 18, 2020 by 41629066

ThinkPad Fold it is like a book. Lay it flat for a gorgeous 13.3" OLED display. A laptop with fold-able screen. ThinkPad X1 Fold is the first fully functional PC with a folding OLED display. Designed to offer unprecedented productivity, it will offer a ground-breaking new form factor that will reimagine mobile computing. As it morphs through multiple modes, from a small footprint device into a fully flat 13.3-inch display, X1 Fold will deliver laptop efficiency with smartphone portabilit...

RAVE- Robot Avatar Thermal Enhanced – will break the communication barrier that widely impacts many young children with minimal or no language and social interaction in early life.

Posted on October 16, 2017 by

Petitto Brain & Language Laboratory Completes Successful RAVE Pilot Launch The Petitto Brain & Language Laboratory, BL2, (Petitto, Scientific Director) has successfully piloted its RAVE ("Robot Avatar Thermal-Enhanced") prototype learning tool with 25 infants over the course of five days. The pilot was successfully executed between June 25 – 30, 2017. Insufficient minimal language exposure in very young children has been shown to have a devastating impact on these children’s ability ...

Machine learning – Next new level of computer evolution

Posted on September 23, 2017September 23, 2017 by

Machine learning is the subfield of computer science that, according to Arthur Samuel, gives "computers the ability to learn without being explicitly programmed Machine learning is the science of getting computers to act without being explicitly programmed. In the past decade, machine learning has given us self-driving cars, practical speech recognition, effective web search, and a vastly improved understanding of the human genome. There is little doubt that Machine Learning (ML) and Artif...

Airborne Wireless Network is in the process of creating a high-speed broadband airborne wireless network by linking commercial aircraft in flight.

Posted on July 27, 2017 by

Airborne Wireless Network Airborne Wireless Network is in the process of creating a high-speed broadband airborne wireless network by linking commercial aircraft in flight. Each aircraft participating in the network will act as an airborne repeater or router sending and receiving broadband signals from one aircraft to the next creating a digital superhighway in the sky. ABWN intends is to be a high-speed broadband internet pipeline to improve coverage connectivity where lacking. ABWN does not...

Stanford researchers develop a new soft, growing robot

Posted on July 20, 2017 by

Imagine rescuers searching for people in the rubble of a collapsed building. Instead of digging through the debris by hand or having dogs sniff for signs of life, they bring out a small, air-tight cylinder. They place the device at the entrance of the debris and flip a switch. From one end of the cylinder, a tendril extends into the mass of stones and dirt, like a fast-climbing vine. A camera at the tip of the tendril gives rescuers a view of the otherwise unreachable places beneath the rubble. ...

Crime fighting security robot by knightscope

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

Knightscope (the K5 beta prototype) is a fully autonomous robot, used to monitor crimes in schools, businesses, and neighborhoods. Its developers stated that development was inspired by the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, and to prevent future crimes. The K5 robot is 5 feet tall, and 300 pounds. The K5 detects crime using a variety of sensors including video camera, thermal imaging sensors, a laser range finder, radar, air quality sensors and a microphone. The K5 has been developed s...

‘IRISBOND’ is building solutions to allow controlling robots and systems using your eyes

Posted on June 17, 2017June 17, 2017 by

IRISBOND emerges from a close collaboration with the VICOMTECH Foundation, a member of the IK4 Research Alliance. Leading one of its applied research lines in artificial vision, VICOMTECH-IK4 develops a system based on the Eye Tracking principle, permitting accurate computer control by eye movement. Its direct application in the world of disability, and more specifically for people with reduced mobility, is the starting point for a course that purports to explore new developments in fa...

3D bioprinting is the process of creating cell patterns in a confined space using 3D printing technologies

Posted on June 10, 2017June 10, 2017 by

3D bioprinting is the process of creating cell patterns in a confined space using 3D printing technologies, where cell function and viability are preserved within the printed construct. Current 3D printing technology has advanced quickly in recent years, enabling people to print 3D models of non-living objects. More recently, researchers in the biomedicine have also begun to use this technology to print human organs and tissues with devices called “3D Bioprinters.” Wake Forest Institute for R...

‘TrulyNatural’ is the first embedded large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer system

Posted on June 10, 2017 by

TrulyNatural™ is the first embedded large vocabulary continuous speech recognizer system which can provide the same state-of-the-art performance as cloud based technologies, but on the device. Many applications don’t need, or don’t want to rely on, a cloud based connection to do high performance speech recognition. Connections can frequently fail or cause fatal delays, and recent concerns have been expressed about sending personal data to the clouds where it could be stolen or used for purposes ...

Microsemi AcuEdge™ Development Kit to build your own version of Amazon AVS creating a voice-activated system (Alexa voice service)

Posted on June 7, 2017 by

Microsemi AcuEdge™ Development Kit for Amazon AVS The success of personal assistants that you interact with via the spoken word, such as Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Home, has made voice control a hot-ticket item in system design. Getting started in this technology, though, has required significant audio and signal processing expertise to address issues in background noise and the speaker’s location. A new development kit from Microsemi, in partnership with Amazon’s Alexa voice serv...

“PerfectLum 3” medical display calibration software calibrates any computer display and projector to be a reliable medical grade display to assist in an accurate diagnosis

Posted on June 5, 2017 by

PerfectLum 3 medical display calibration software calibrates any computer display and projector to the international standard DICOM Part14 GSDF. PerfectLum 3 also adjusts the white level of the display, verifies calibration results and reports them in a history database. In radiology departments, it is important that display systems are perfectly reliable, since image reproduction can play a key role in an accurate diagnosis and a treatment plan that works. We help medical imaging professionals...

Ninety7 Vaux is the first battery-powered speaker designed specifically to house the Amazon Echo Dot.

Posted on May 26, 2017 by

VAUX is the first battery-powered speaker designed specifically to house the Amazon Echo Dot. Its cordless portability, enhanced audio quality and beautiful modern aesthetic let’s you enjoy VAUX anywhere in your home environment. https://youtu.be/FbRz3EKl5Iw VAUX delivers high quality audio and looks good doing it. We've wrapped premium speakers in beautiful acoustic fabric, making VAUX fit seamlessly into your space while filling it with great sound. Elevate the Dot. Same Dot. Better ever...

Google is making Google Photos smarter and a lot easier by powering it with AI.

Posted on May 23, 2017 by

Suggested Sharing will prompt you to share photos based on the people in them. Photos will have a new Sharing tab, and will send notifications prompting users to share photos. In addition, Google Photos is getting shared libraries, meaning photos from two different phones can be automatically saved to a common photo pool. Google Photos is a photo sharing and storage service developed by Google. With a shared library, you can share photos of specific things or people with another person....