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Recent footage shows agricultural robot co-developed by National Research Institute Agricultural Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University, and automobile parts manufacturer Denso harvesting apples in Japan’s...

Analyzing papers and patent data collected from top AI journals and conferences, 44 in total from 2011 to 2020, Tsinghua University’s new AI development report revealed new statistical insights. The report shows a...

IBM has closed off its Beijing-based China Research Laboratory (CRL) after 25 years of operation. Insiders familiar with the matter posted confirmations on Chinese social media sites on January 23. In an official...

According to reports on January 20, South Korea’s Gwangju is adopting integrated AI technology to help with city governance. The AI pledges to improve citizen convenience, reduce expenditures and improve efficiency....

On January 18, in efforts to understand and manage extreme weather events, McGill University announced a new interdisciplinary project to combine deep learning (DL) with social network analysis (SNA). The team based...

A Nepalese machine learning (ML) researcher has introduced a handy browser extension that lets users directly access videos related to research papers published on the popular preprint platform arXiv.An increasing...

According to the FAO, a locust swarm of a square kilometer can devour the same amount of food in one day as 35,000 people. In effort to curb the desert locust outbreak that affected 23 countries, Kuzi — an...

There are countless neural network architectures and possible variations available to machine learning researchers. Typically, the manual creation of a new network architecture for a particular task is a trial-and-error...

According to news report, South Korea’s Seodaemun-gu will expand the number of “artificial intelligence (AI) caregiver service” target from 200 to 450 from next month. This service uses AI speakers to increase the...

On January 14, researcher from Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announce joint efforts with Stanford’s Dynamic Design Lab, to research on automotive safety improvements. The current project draws upon Stanford’s...

The global artificial intelligence market is expected to top US$40 billion in 2020, with a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 43.39 percent, according to Market Insight Reports. AI’s remarkable achievements and...

At the Wave Summit 2020 held on December 20, Baidu unveiled the company’s newest ML-based bio-computing framework named “PaddleHelix”. The new biocomputing framework provides a series of algorithms and models...

At Crown Coffee, a small-yet-homey coffee bar in downtown Singapore, the autonomous robot barista “Ella” never gets your order wrong. Named after the wife of Crown Coffee’s CEO and founder Keith Tan, Ella is a...

This month, Porsche Digital, the subsidiary of the Stuttgart-based sports car manufacturer, has unveiled digital assistant ‘Sounce’ offers an improved ability to detect noise – for example, during vehicle...

China’s east-central city Zhengzhou has successfully used AI to triage parking for over 4.5 million vehicles in the area. Zhengzhou has adapted high-rise video cams beginning in March 2019, to make each responsible...

On December 27, Chinese Embassy in Trinidad and Tobago rolled out a multilingual AI presenter named “Xiao Ai” to broadcast New Year’s greeting in Chinese, English, French and Spanish. Xiao Ai’s diplomatic...

After working at Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA) for more than 21 years, NLP maverick Zhou Ming’s next stop is VC Fund Innovation Workshop funded by former colleague Kai-fu Lee. Zhou will soon join the Institute of AI...