Artificial intelligence
Reservoir, a leader in supporting agtech start-ups, has announced the launch of a new venture fund, Reservoir Venture (VC), targeting early-stage agtech companies. The evergreen fund, invested in by ag industry veteran Matthew Hoffman, will focus on pre-seed investments in robotics, automation, precision agriculture, and AI software-as-a-service (SaaS) platforms. Reservoir
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Researchers from Macquarie University have developed a novel strategy for strain sensor fabrication using electrochemical 3D printing, enabling the creation of high-performance sensors with diverse geometries and applications. This cutting-edge technology has the potential to revolutionize the field of robotics by providing reliable and sustainable production of advanced multi-environmental strain
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Researchers at the University of Sri Jayewardenepura have made significant strides in improving warehouse efficiency through the development of an advanced robotics system. The prototype, designed to optimize battery management and workflow, utilizes autonomous mobile robots equipped with localization and communication technologies to prevent downtime and improve productivity. The system&
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Researchers at Afyon Kocatepe University have developed a new control algorithm called the Tillage and Energy Control System (TECS), which optimizes the conservation of traction power and efficient use of energy in agricultural mobile robots. The algorithm is adaptable to changing tillage conditions and takes into account factors such as
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Researchers from Bohai University have developed a new adaptive finite-time neural optimal control technique for flexible-joint robots. The technique, which combines reinforcement learning and radial basis function neural networks, is designed to simplify the control process and solve the singularity problem that occurs in traditional backstepping optimal control techniques. According
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Researchers at the University of Pretoria have developed a novel, low-cost autonomous mobile robot (AMR) designed to support small- and medium-scale citrus farmers in South Africa. The AMR offers real-time crop monitoring, autonomous navigation, and error alerts, making it a significant advancement in affordable smart technology for sustainable citrus farming.
Artificial intelligence
Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center have developed a deep learning segmentation model that can accurately segment abdominal organs on CT and MRI scans. The model was trained using a domain randomization method, which improves its generalization ability on cross-site and cross-modality datasets. The model outperformed two other publicly available segmentation
Artificial intelligence
Researchers at the AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH have developed a privacy-preserving, data-driven cloud service for predicting the energy consumption of industrial robots. By integrating machine learning techniques with secure multi-party computation (SMPC), they have created a system that ensures confidentiality of proprietary model weights and confidential input trajectories.
Artificial intelligence
Researchers from the Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) have made a groundbreaking discovery in the field of visual speech recognition, achieving unprecedented precision and robustness in diverse settings. The team proposes a novel architecture called Dual-Stream Former, which integrates a Video Swin Transformer and Conformer to address the challenges
Robotics
China is rapidly surpassing other countries in the installation of factory robots, with over 2 million robots working in Chinese factories last year and nearly 300,000 new robots installed, surpassing the rest of the world combined. The surge in robot installations is part of a broader national campaign to
Machine learning
Researchers from Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine have made a significant discovery in understanding intervertebral disc degeneration (IDD) using competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) networks. By constructing a novel ceRNA network, the team was able to identify pivotal gene markers and pathways involved in IDD. The study found 119
Artificial intelligence
In a collaborative effort with the National Science Foundation, researchers at Virginia Tech have launched an innovative after-school program, robot theater, that integrates robotics, artificial intelligence, and ethics education for grade school children. The program, which combines art, dance, music, and performance to explore robotics and AI, has been refined
