On (most) Fridays I post here a roundup of interesting things I’ve read and/or posted on social media since my last roundup, generally stories about emerging technologies, experiential activations, interactive art, advances in scientific research, and other things I find interesting.
Featured Image: Drive.ai/The Verge
Centauro is a disaster-response robot from the Italian Institute of Technology that looks like a horse:
Image: IIT
University of South Australia researchers have developed artificial intelligence algorithms that can predict people’s personalities simply by tracking their eye movements:
Image: Peter Clarke
Created by the UC Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, Salto-1P, is a grasshopper-like robot that jumps with absolute precision and loads of speed:
Image: UC Berkeley/Techcrunch
The ACLU tested Amazon’s Rekognition facial recognition AI against photos of US Congress members and it falsely matches 28 of them to criminals:
Image: ACLU
Swiss engineers at the EPFL were inspired by insect wings and origami to develop a flexible quadcopter drone that’s resilient to collision impact:
Image: EPFL/Inverse
AI researchers at OpenAI have demonstrated a reinforcement learning algorithm that gave a robot hand the dexterity to teach itself to rotate cube:
Image: Dactyl
Drive.ai’s self-driving cars are hitting the road in Texas and have four external LED screens to communicate messages to pedestrians:
Image: Drive.ai/The Verge
Uber will be shutting down its self-driving trucks division (fka Otto) but will continue to pursue driverless cars:
Image: OTTO
Autonomous-aviation startup Xwing takes flight with $4 million in funding and is building technology that can be used for both helicopters and fixed-wing planes:
Image: Xwing
AI is rapidly improving in its ability to recognize, interpret, process, and simulate human emotions using facial analysis, voice pattern analysis, and deep learning:
Image: Affectiva
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