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Chipotle Introduces Guacamole Prep Robot Autocado
Chipotle has partnered with the automation solutions firm Vebu to debut Autocado, an avocado processing robot that will reduce guacamole prep time by 50%.
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Face Recognition In the U.S. Is About to Meet One of Its Biggest Tests
A Massachusetts bill restricting police use could set the standard for how the technology is regulated in America.
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White House Proposes Smart Home Cybersecurity Program
The goal of the new certification is to help consumers make choices.
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Digital Twins Give Hydrogen a Greener Path to Growth
A researcher thinks digital twins could help lower clean hydrogen production costs by monitoring the state of hydrogen electrolyzers.
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Here's How San Jose Plans to Use Artificial Intelligence to Stop Pedestrian Traffic Deaths
AImay be considered an invaluable tool when talking about traffic and pedestrian deaths in a city where two more lives were lost this past weekend in hit and run...
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ChatGPT's Evil Twin 'WormGPT' is Silently Entering Emails, Raiding Banks
SlashNext says WormGPT is an example of the threat that language-generative AI models pose.
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Robot Injects Drugs into Back of Eyeball More Accurately Than Surgeons
The Steady Hand Eye Robot can inject drugs into the back of the eyeball faster and more accurately than surgeons to treat retinal vein occlusion, according to Johns...
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Tech Firms Hope Workouts Can Sell Women on VR Headsets
Major technology companies hope to establish a mainstream market for virtual reality products by selling work, fitness, and entertainment applications to young...
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Wearable Biosensor for Monitoring Sweat Electrolytes
Researchers in Japan engineered an innovative sweat biosensor by depositing a flexible chloride ion sensor onto a textile substrate through heat-transfer printing...
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Europe Looks to Virtual Factories in New Industrial Revolution
The European Union is funding the Digital Intelligent MOdular FACtories project to advance the concept of virtual factories or digital twins throughout Europe. ...
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Your School's Next Security Guard May Be a Robot
Several technology companies have started offering security robots to U.S. schools.
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EU Looks to Take Lead in Metaverse World, Avoid Big Tech Dominance
The European Commission has outlined a strategy for the European Union to assume a lead role in the metaverse sector and block its domination by technology giants...
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AI-Powered Brain Surgery Becomes A Reality In Hong Kong
The Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, under the Chinese Academy of Sciences, completed successful trials of a robot that treats brain tumors.
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Computer Vision That Works More Like a Brain Sees More Like People Do
Massachusetts Institute of Technology researchers trained an artificial neural network to function like the brain's inferior temporal cortex to improve computer...
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AI Robots Could Play Future Role as Companions in Care Homes
Artificial intelligence-powered social robots could help care for the sick and aged in the future.
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Automated Evolution Tackles Tough Tasks
Reinforcement learning groups unlabeled data into sets of likes, with the goal of maximizing the cumulative rewards it receives from a human-wrought evaluation...
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FTC Investigating Whether ChatGPT Harms Consumers
The agency's demand for OpenAI's documents about AI risks mark the company's greatest U.S. regulatory threat to date.
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Natural World Empowers Future of Computer Vision
An open source software system aims to improve the training of computer vision systems by quickly generating an unlimited number of photorealistic scenes of the...
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Biological Camera Stores Images
National University of Singapore scientists used biological components to encode and store images on live cells.
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