[ad_1] Mat Kaplan: Mars beckons at the 2021 Humans To Mars Summit. This week on Planetary Radio. Mat Kaplan: Welcome, I’m Mat Kaplan with The Planetary Society with more of the human adventure across our solar system and beyond. A pandemic couldn’t keep Explore mars from once again producing a wonderful gathering of would be
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[ad_1] It turns out robots are taking over jobs fastest around the world in places where their human counterparts are aging the most rapidly. That is the conclusion of a new study that looked at demographic and industry-level data in 60 countries and found a powerful link between aging workforces – defined as the ratio
[ad_1] In fact, that’s already happening in some patent offices. One of the main problems with the patent system is that in order to decide if a proposed thingamabob is truly a new invention, patent examiners would ideally sift through monumental troves of data to pinpoint how said thingamabob is (or isn’t) novel. With those
[ad_1] The annual Humans to Mars Summit kicks off in Washington, D.C. and online today (Sept. 13), and you can watch all the events virtually. The three-day event, hosted by Explore Mars, will feature panel discussions and speakers from NASA as well as the agency’s private and international partners. “As we emerge from the COVID-19
[ad_1] RoboSimian and Surrogate are robots that were designed and built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. Credit: JPL-Caltech <span aria-describedby="tt" class="glossaryLink" data-cmtooltip=" JPL The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is a federally funded research and development center managed for NASA by the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The laboratory’s primary function is the
[ad_1] Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks. “It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its
[ad_1] Ask for a roast beef sandwich at an Arby’s drive-thru east of Los Angeles and you may be talking to Tori — an artificially intelligent voice assistant that will take your order and send it to the line cooks. “It doesn’t call sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, whose family installed the AI voice at its
[ad_1] If you ask for a roast beef sandwich at Arby’s drive-through east of Los Angeles, you may be talking to Tori. Tori is an artificial intelligence voice assistant that takes orders and sends them to Line Cook. “I’m not sick,” says Amir Siddiqi, a family member who installed AI voice in the Irby franchise
[ad_1] BEIJING — KiloX, a Chinese startup focused on developing robots that inspect industrial facilities, has raised several tens of million yuan ($3 million to $4.6 million) from an angel round led by Plum Ventures, the company said. Founded in 2019, KiloX is a tech company that researches mobile robots, industrial computer vision and ways