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How Aspiring Learners Can Make Use of E-learning to Enhance their Skills

If the instructor arouses your interest to go beyond what he has taught, you will go the extra mile and learn more

23 Jul 2021 11:01 PM

The Unctad report finds that a few developing nations are exhibiting stronger capabilities to use, adopt and adapt frontier technologies than their per capita GDPs would suggest. (Representational image: AFP)

India top over-performer in frontier technologies

Over-performance is measured as the difference between the actual index rankings and the estimated index rankings based on per capita income

26 Feb 2021 7:32 AM

Bengaluru start-up uses AI to come up with potential Covid drug

This is the second breakthrough in the fight against COVID-19 in India.

22 May 2020 10:16 PM

A still from the malayalam film Android Kunjappan. (Photo | YouTube)

Soon, robots could be doing your chores, like a real-life ‘Android Kunjappan’

Scientists have developed a system that teaches robots to do complicated household tasks

07 Mar 2020 5:54 PM

The Emotion Detection System was showcased to the public by IISc Bengaluru at an Open Day held on March 1, 2020.

An IISc developed system that detects emotions could help solve crime

Emotion detection is a part of the scientific discipline Computer Vision, which tries to replicate the way humans process data from images

06 Mar 2020 2:53 PM

A prototype of an automated blood drawing and testing device. (Photo: Unnati Chauhan)

This blood-drawing robot is more accurate than humans

Researchers at Rutgers University and Mount Sinai Hospital have developed a blood-sampling and testing device.

17 Feb 2020 6:55 AM

AI growth — scary or exciting? You decide.

14 incredible things Artificial Intelligence can do right now

From seeing to predicting when you are going to die, these are 14 things that AI is capable of doing right now.

12 Nov 2019 10:31 AM

An unveiling of Israel’s newly-developed operating suites for ground fighting vehicles made clear it plans to keep soldiers at the controls. (Photo: Pixabay)

Israeli army in no rush to go fully robotic

The country draws most of its military personnel from teenage conscripts.

05 Aug 2019 7:16 AM

"Kia is preparing to launch its car on August 8 and has invited Chief Minister Y S Jagan Mohan Reddy for the event, the CMO said in a release on Saturday.

Kia Motors to launch 'Made in India' car on Aug 8

KIA Motors plant would produce three lakh cars a year.

28 Jul 2019 11:07 AM

The government proposes 'Study in India' to bring in foreign students to pursue education here. (Photo: ANI)

Budget 2019: Government to improve youth skills in AI, robotics

Training of workforce with relevant skills will help address the severe skill shortage technology and IT companies are facing right now.

05 Jul 2019 12:55 PM

Amazon has also shown growing interest in self-driving technology more broadly.

Amazon buys warehouse robotics startup Canvas Technology

The world’s largest online retailer has increasingly automated its fulfilment centres with robots.

11 Apr 2019 11:10 AM

Amazon employee Deasahni Bernard moves among robots at the 855,000-square-foot Amazon fulfilment centre in Staten Island. (Photo: AFP)

Complicated human-robot choreography at Amazon

Amazon's 'collaborative' robots offer a peek into the future, concerns over artificial intelligence taking over human job positions.

20 Feb 2019 6:11 PM

Amazon has announced it is bringing together some of the brightest leaders across science, academia, and business.

Amazon announces re:MARS, an event for Machine Learning, Automation, Robotics, and Space

Leaders and builders across industries will come together for immersive learning sessions including visionary talks and more.

20 Jan 2019 3:33 PM

Joe Allnutt, lead roboticist at British startup company the Small Robot Company, inspects a farming robot named Tom as part of a trial in East Meon, southern England, Friday Nov. 30, 2018. The “agri-tech” startup company is developing lightweight autonomous machines that can carry out precision “seeding, feeding and weeding” in the hope of transforming food production. (AP Photo / Kelvin Chan)

Robots in the field: farms embracing autonomous technology

Tom's creator, the Small Robot Company, is part of a wave of "agri-tech" startups working to transform production in a sector.

30 Nov 2018 7:41 PM

Scientists make robots more expressive

The researchers have now found a system to make the second-generation Affetto more expressive.

18 Nov 2018 3:23 PM

The RoboTurk framework allows people to direct the robot arms in real time with a smartphone and a browser by showing the robot how to carry out tasks like picking up objects, said Ajay Mandlekar.

New method helps robots to learn tasks from people

Scientists are testing two frameworks that could make it faster and easier to teach robot arms.

28 Oct 2018 5:52 PM

ABB, whose industrial robots are used, among other things, to build automobiles as well as to assemble electronic devices, will build robots for numerous industries at the Shanghai factory, a spokesman said. (Representational image)

Robots to make robots at ABB's new $150 million factory in China

China is expanding its robot workforce, as wages for human workers there rise and the country seeks to compete with lower-cost countries.

28 Oct 2018 10:52 AM

(Representational image/ Photo credit: Pixabay)

China robot market growth to slump this year as trade war weighs

Sales of industrial robots in China will grow this year at only about a third of last year.

18 Oct 2018 3:36 PM

The robot SWEEPER, developed by researchers including those from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU) in Israel, is designed to operate in a single stem row cropping system. (Representational image)

Robot that can harvest ripe produce developed

Scientists expect that a commercial sweet pepper harvesting robot will be available within four to five years.

24 Sep 2018 8:55 AM

The movie considers laws for robots first imagined by Isaac Asimov in his 1942 short story "Runaround," which states that machines must not harm humans. (Representational image/ Photo: Pixabay)

Killer Robots' film warns of perils of automation

The film is also the first ever to be narrated by a robot — a possible sign of what's to come in the motion picture industry.

09 Sep 2018 12:18 PM

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