Credit: © Andrey Popov / Adobe Stock Robots and prosthetic devices may soon have a sense of touch equivalent to, or better than, the human skin with the Asynchronous Coded Electronic Skin (ACES), an artificial nervous system developed by a team of researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS). The new electronic skin system achieved ultra-high responsiveness and robustness to damage, and can...

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The Neural Impairment Test Suite app is a collection of various tests available to smartphone users on Google Play. Photo: Juste Suminaite/KTU Huntington’s disease, an inherited progressive brain disorder that causes neurons to die in the brain, affects 1 in 10,000 to 20,000 people of European (Caucasian) descent. The disorder, which reduces life expectancy and has symptoms including irritability, depression, involuntary movements, bad...

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AI-Human Brains  DEPOSITPHOTOS AI is blossoming, but the real advantage of AI is yet to come. While organizations are mesmerized by the power of AI on left-brained activities of facts, rules, and logic, the big opportunity lies fallow. It's the right-brained activities that help with insight, interpretation, intuition, judgment, and reasoning where the big benefits can be gleaned. The leverage of general policies,...

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A report from PwC and Microsoft has concluded that artificial intelligence (AI) could be deployed to manage environmental impacts and climate change. The authors of the report, How AI can enable a sustainable future, urged stakeholders across the public, private and third sectors to be involved in unlocking AI to tackle environmental challenges to its fullest potential. According to PwC and Microsoft, using AI...

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Smart lights are cool. They facilitate an unprecedented level of luxury. There will be no more getting out of bed to switch the lights off when a single swipe on your smart phone will do. Smart lights are only an expression of a much bigger disruption: home automation. Every problem you didn’t know you had in managing your home is about to be...

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GETTY In 2016, Gartner estimated that 60% of data science projects were failing. In 2017, Gartner analyst Nick Heudecker said it was likely closer to 85%. Add artificial intelligence (AI) into the mix and IDG says only one out of every three projects is a success. With these dismal success rates, you’d think that businesses would be abandoning ship. Yet, IDC predicts worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems...

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Smart lights are cool. They facilitate an unprecedented level of luxury. There will be no more getting out of bed to switch the lights off when a single swipe on your smart phone will do. Smart lights are only an expression of a much bigger disruption: home automation. Every problem you didn’t know you had in managing your home is about to be...

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Businesses of every stripe operate in an environment where rapid change is the norm. Technology is bringing disruption to every sector; increased regulation places an increasingly onerous burden on operations while customers and consumers are far more engaged than ever before, and therefore expect ever higher levels of service delivery. Daniel Meere of consulting firm Axis Corporate explains below. To survive, businesses must...

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Nonprofit advocacy group Fight for the Future is pushing for an outright ban of government use of facial recognition technologies.  GETTY As government use of facial recognition technology becomes more widespread, the digital rights nonprofit Fight for the Future has created an interactive map that shows where in the United States it’s being used and where it’s being resisted.  The map draws on news reports...

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