DOD To Set Up New Artificial Intelligence Office

Law360 (April 13, 2018, 5:23 PM EDT) — The U.S. Department of Defense and federal intelligence agencies will establish a central artificial … The DOD is creating a “Joint Artificial Intelligence Center” to consolidate and try to speed up AI development efforts being made by the military and federal … More details

Video Friday: Robot With Scissors, Cassie on a Segway, and Atlas Kicking

Your weekly selection of awesome robot videos Image: RC2L/KITECH via YouTube Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!): NASA Swarmathon – April 17-19, 2018 – Kennedy Space Center, Fla., USA RoboSoft 2018 – April 24-28, 2018 – Livorno, Italy ICARSC 2018 – April 25-27, 2018 – Torres Vedras, Portugal NASA Robotic Mining Competition – May 14-18, 2018 – Kennedy Space Center, Fla., USA ICRA 2018 – May 21-25, 2018 – Brisbane, Australia RSS 2018 – June 26-30, 2018 – Pittsburgh, Pa., USA Ubiquitous Robots 2018 – June 27-30, 2018 – Honolulu, Hawaii MARSS 2018 – July 4-8, 2018 – Nagoya, Japan AIM 2018 – July 9-12, 2018 – Auckland, New Zealand Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos. Oh yes, this is an excellent idea. Cassie Blue Continue reading Video Friday: Robot With Scissors, Cassie on a Segway, and Atlas Kicking

Les techno-prophètes sont parmi nous

Un matin d’octobre 2017, lors de la Matinale de la RTS, les téléspectateurs encore assoupis furent brutalement réveillés par une phrase choc lâchée à l’antenne: «L’école forme des enfants qui vont être laminés par l’intelligence artificielle.» Celui qui les tira de leurs rêveries n’était autre que le médecin … Plus de details