XpertSea décroche un financement de 10 millions $ pour aider les aquaculteurs à compter leurs …

La pêche aux investisseurs a été bonne pour XpertSea, une jeune entreprise de Québec qui a mis au point un système de contrôle de qualité des organismes marins pour l’industrie de l’aquaculture en ayant recours à l’intelligence artificielle et à la vision numérique, notamment pour compter les larves … Plus de details

Apple s’intéresse davantage au machine learning et l’intelligence artificielle en augmentant sa …

L’intelligence artificielle est aujourd’hui importante pour toutes les entreprises high-tech. Apple commence sérieusement à s’y intéresser, tout comme Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook et d’autres. L’intelligence artificielle va jouer un rôle crucial dans les années avenir, aussi bien pour les services … Plus de details

FlyJacket Lets You Control a Drone With Your Body

EPFL’s FlyJacket exosuit allows you to embody a fixed-wing drone, making it feel like you’re flying Photo: EPFL LIS It takes a lot of practice to fly a drone with confidence. Whether it’s a multirotor or a fixed-wing drone, there are a lot of complicated things going on all at once, and most of the control systems are not even a little bit intuitive. The first-person viewpoint afforded by drone-mounted cameras and VR headsets helps, but you’re still stuck with trying to use a couple of movable sticks to manage a flying robot, which takes both experience and concentration. EPFL has developed a much better system for drone control, taking away the sticks and replacing them with intuitive and comfortable movements of your entire body. It’s an upper-body soft exoskeleton called FlyJacket, and with it on, you can pilot a fixed-wing drone by embodying the drone—put your arms out like Continue reading FlyJacket Lets You Control a Drone With Your Body

An AI that makes road maps from aerial images

Map apps may have changed our world, but they still haven’t mapped all of it yet. In particular, mapping roads can be tedious: even after taking aerial images, companies like Google still have to spend many hours manually tracing out roads. As a result, they haven’t yet gotten around to mapping the vast majority of the more than 20 million miles of roads across the globe. More details