Breakthrough research at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) is teaching robots to use computer vision to work out how to pick up objects. After training, robots have proved capable at picking up the same object over and over in a factory, but when faced with different objects they need to be retrained,…
Perlego, which has been dubbed the ‘Spotify for textbooks,’ has closed $4.8 million in finding. Leading the round is ADV, with participation from existing angel investors, including Simon Franks (co-founder of Lovefilm), Alex Chesterman (founder of Zoopla), and Peter Hinssen. Founded by Gauthier Van Malderen and Matthew Davis, Perlego provides students and professionals unlimited access…
British medical company CMR Surgical has launched a robotic arm designed to be remotely controlled and to perform minimally invasive operations. The Versius robot mimics the movements of the human arm and is controlled remotely by combining immersive, 3D high-definition vision with an ergonomic control console. CMR Surgical claims the new system will “reduce stress and…
Internet of Business says The UK government has announced a new code of conduct covering the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the NHS and healthcare sector. The 10-point Code of Conduct for Data-driven Health and Care Technology is designed, says the government, to ensure that NHS patients benefit from digital technology. However, the separate…
As Google turns 20 with a new search engine launch, Chris Middleton looks at what it has been up to lately – and at the storm clouds gathering in the US and Europe for it and other large technology platforms. Internet of Business says Google celebrated its twentieth birthday this week by going back to…
British Airways (BA) has revealed that hundreds of thousands of its customers have had personal and payment-card details stolen from its website and mobile app. The airline’s site was compromised between 21 August and 5 September 2018, during which time around 380,000 transactions were affected. The stolen details include names, addresses, email addresses, and credit card…
There are plenty of dystopian predictions about the Singularity: one definition of which is the point at which general AI and computer intelligence overtakes and replaces human cognition. However, a new report from telecoms provider Tata Communications paints a more positive picture: a future world of work based on collaboration, in which AI augments and diversifies…
Immersive technologies are moving from “hypothetical to pragmatic use” in industrial companies, with AR emerging as the early winner, says a new Capgemini report. Jessica Twentyman looks at its findings. Aerospace giant Boeing is using augmented reality (AR) to give technicians instructions for airplane wiring schematics. By putting them directly in workers’ fields of view…
A group of security researchers say dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly sharing the location data of “tens of millions of mobile devices” with third-party data monetization firms. Almost all require access to a user’s location data to work properly, like weather and fitness apps, but share that data often as a way to…
Immersive technologies are moving from “hypothetical to pragmatic use” in industrial companies, with AR emerging as the early winner, says a new Capgemini report. Jessica Twentyman looks at its findings. Aerospace giant Boeing is using augmented reality (AR) to give technicians instructions for airplane wiring schematics. By putting them directly in workers’ fields of view…
