Distill: An online visual machine learning journal
This past week, a number of heavy hitters in the machine learning community launched the first online, interactive and peer reviewed machine learning journal with a focus on publishing original...
View ArticleDeep and Reinforcement Learning Summer Schools 2017
Canadian machine learning researchers have already declared publicly their desire to make Canada’s Montreal a hub of innovation for machine learning methods. One can easily argue that this is already...
View ArticleHarvard’s soft exoskeleton
It was 2009-2010 when exoskeletons exited science fiction and entered the mainstream as several companies and research labs revealed their state-of-the-art designs (see Rex Bionics, Lockheed Martin,...
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Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning vs Deep Learning: What does it...
Elon Musk’s OpenAI will save the world from evil AI (photo Steve Jurvetson).For more than a decade, hundreds of millions of people on planet Earth have, unbeknownst to them, interacted on a daily basis...
View ArticleAI weekly news roundup (Jan 8-14, 2017)
The second week of January is now behind us, so here is a brief look at some AI related stories as we are heading into the second half of the new year’s first month. Microsoft acquired Canadian deep...
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Book review: Deep Learning by Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville
The big success story this past year (several decades in the making, though) was deep learning, a machine learning method that has allowed researchers and practitioners to tackle with success some of...
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Anki’s Cozmo robot is the best robot of 2016
If you haven’t heard of the tiny, adorable, smart, programmable, robot Cozmo then you have missed out on the best robot of 2016 and, possibly, the best entertainment robot ever build! Yes, we are not...
View ArticleRelay: A delivery robot for the hospitality industry
Delivery robots are not a new concept and several systems have been in operation in past decades. For example, delivery robots have been used in hospital environments to deliver medicine. In fact,...
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Overexposed photos be gone, say MIT researchers!
Overexposed photographs may soon become a thing of the passed with a new invention out of MIT. The proposed modulo camera overcomes the problem of limited bit resolution of modern light sensors to...
View ArticleGoogle Project Wing delivery drones
After all the excitement that Amazon was working on unmanned drones for package delivery (and many people doubting to what degree such a delivery system is even realistic for many reasons other than...
View ArticleGoogle Project Tango mobile phone
After acquiring just about any robotics company worth something, Google research have now revealed one of their internal projects that aims to create a mobile phone that has all the necessary hardware...
View ArticleKUKA robot versus Tim Boll
First, robots defeated man in chess. Second, robots defeated man in the game of Jeopardy. Third, robots proved to man that they can be better drivers. Now, they will get the chance to best man in the...
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BigDog dynamic manipulation: It throws a cement block!
Boston Dynamics have amazed us more than once over the years having created some of the most incredible and, at times, scariest (not in the uncanny valley sense but more on the Terminator is real...
View ArticleMulti-user spatial collaboration using augmented reality on mobile devices
Augmented reality for mobile devices has grown in popularity in recent years partly because of the proliferation of smart phones and tablet computers equipped with exceptional cameras and partly...
View ArticleQuadrocopter inverted pendulum acrobatics
Quadrocopters are all the rage these day but nobody gets them to more impressive acrobatics than the machine learning and control team, led by Prof. Raffaello D’Andrea, at ETH. Whereas just last year...
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UK’s Oxford robot car is here
I guess English scientists and engineers don’t like to be outdone by their American counterparts so after many years of hearing constantly about Google’s rapid development of self-driving cars, a team...
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Sir James Dyson on robot vacuums: Not good enough!
Sir James Dyson, the man whose name is synonymous with vacuum cleaners that work (among other wonderful inventions) recently expressed his opinion on the robot vacuums available in the market today. He...
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Robotic prosthetic arm that can feel
The year 2013 has started brilliantly, even more so than 2012 ended. If you recall, it was in late 2012, when it was announced scientists and engineers had developed a robotic arm that a quadriplegic...
View ArticleChainsaw robot makes furniture for your home
Yes, you have read the title correctly! Some interior design students have a pretty wild imagination (and very likely some friends with robotics expertise and access to some cool hardware:) ) as they...
View ArticleMABEL two-legged robot fastest in the world
It would appear that we have a new champion in the “what robot can run fastest race”. The two-legged robot MABEL under development for several years at the University of Michigan was recently revealed...
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