Artificial Intelligence

  Autonomous car designers are discovering an interesting problem as they begin to test their vehicles in Australia. The unusual way that kangaroos move confuses the car's animal detection system. Volvo’s 2017 S90 and XC90 models use its Large Animal Detection system to monitor the road for deer, elk and caribou, but the way kangaroos moves completely throws it off.

ROHM Semiconductor and A*STAR’s Institute of Microelectronics (IME), a renowned research institute under the Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), recently announced the joint development of an artificial intelligence (AI) chip to boost efficiency in predictive maintenance for smart factories.

Meitu has announced the launch of 'COUNTER' on its MakeupPlus app - an innovative, virtual cosmetics counter providing users with a unique experience to try before they buy - virtually. COUNTER is accessible globally through MakeupPlus, featuring hundreds of lip products from colour cosmetic brands such as Clinique, Giorgio Armani, Lancôme, YSL and Bobbi Brown, with several more brands continuously added to the app.

At London’s TechXLR8 trade show which took place 13th to 15th June 2017, David MacQueen, Executive Director, Apps and Media, Strategy Analytics, gave a talk entitled ‘Harnessing VR & AR enterprise opportunities’. Strategy Analytics predicts that half a billion VR headsets will be on the market by 2022, and that this sector will be dominated by low cost smartphone VR. On the other hand, while niche in terms of ...

Nuance Communication has announced that its Dragon Drive artificial intelligence (AI) platform for the connected car now features expanded conversational and cognitive capabilities for its Automotive Assistant to provide everyone in the car – drivers and passengers – with the ability to ask for navigation, music, content and other in-car features just by speaking – no wake-up phrase or button press required.

Automobiles today have more computing power than a fighter jet from the 1960s.There has been a huge influx of electronics integrated throughout a vehicle, including the engine, power train, chassis, body systems, comfort systems, active safety and Driver’s Assistance Systems (ADAS). The value of all this technology is upwards of 30% of the automobile’s total production cost. Eric Grange of C&K explains.

Designed to accelerate the development of safer and more automated vehicles, u-blox has announced the VERA P1 series, the latest in its range of V2X modules. The goal of developing safe and reliable self driving cars can only be realised through technology. The automotive industry, governments and standards bodies all agree it will require vehicles to be in constant contact with other vehicles and their surroundings, known respectively as Vehicle...

Supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, Renesas Electronics, has announced that Automotive Grade Linux (AGL) has adopted the Renesas R-Car Starter Kit as one of its standard reference platforms for software development. AGL is a collaborative open source project that is bringing together automakers, suppliers and technology companies to build a Linux-based, open software platform for automotive applications that can serve as the de facto in...

A reaction to the 2008 financial crisis, Bitcoin is a digital-currency scheme designed to wrest control of the monetary system from central banks. With Bitcoin, anyone can mint money, provided he or she can complete a complex computation quickly enough. Through a set of clever protocols, that computational hurdle prevents the system from being coopted by malicious hackers.

The self-driving car revolution reached a momentous milestone with the U.S. Department of Transportation’s release in September 2016 of its first handbook of rules on autonomous vehicles. Discussions about how the world will change with driverless cars on the roads and how to make that future as ethical and responsible as possible are intensifying. Some of these conversations are taking place at Stanford.