For the first time, a Chinese news channel has employed an artificial intelligence robot as a weather reporter on its live breakfast show, raising concerns among the country's journalists as it could threaten their jobs.
The one-armed robot, code named 'Super-D', is expected to serve at airports and in other public places.
The 'cheetah-cub robot,' a small-size quadruped prototype robot was developed by Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne EPFL's Biorobotics Laboratory (Biorob), Switzerland.
The procedure, however, would cost around Rs 75,000-100,000 more than conventional angioplasty.
Employers in India are planning to outpace global adoption in certain future technologies as companies operating in the country are heavily investing in technologies like artificial intelligence (AI), energy technologies, robotics, and autonomous systems, said the World Economic Forum (WEF) in its latest "Future of Jobs" report released on Wednesday. The report, released days before the WEF annual meeting in Davos from January 20-25, notes that 35 per cent employers in India think that adopting semiconductors and computing technologies (compared to 20 per cent globally) will transform their operations while 21 per cent employers think that adopting quantum and encryption technologies (compared to 12 per cent globally) will also transform their operations.
'Android FC,' is a three-robot team, consisting of a two-foot-high striker, defender and goalkeeper.
Researchers believe that more complex machines may soon be on the drawing board, and military robots might one day even be asked to make some important decisions on their own.
Robo Brain -- a large-scale computational system that learns from publicly available Internet resources -- is currently downloading and processing about 1 billion images, 120,000 YouTube videos, and 100 million how-to documents and appliance manuals.
In photos: After US visa battle, all-girl Afghanistan team competes in the first international robot Olympics in Washington, DC
This is how the residents of Jamnagar danced the Garba.
The robot baby called Diego-San is modelled on a one-year-old child and a YouTube video shows its face reflecting a series of emotions including happiness, sadness, alarm, puzzlement and anger.
Researchers, including an Indian-origin scientist, have developed a new 'smart' robot that can analyse and learn about new objects on its own.
India and Qatar on Tuesday agreed to elevate their relationship to a strategic partnership and double bilateral trade to USD 28 billion over the next five years. Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Qatari Amir Sheikh Tamim Bin Hamad Al-Thani signed agreements and MoUs to strengthen economic cooperation, including a revised double taxation avoidance agreement. The strategic partnership will cover the "entire spectrum" of the bilateral relationship, including trade, energy security, and regional and international cooperation. Both leaders also discussed ways to further strengthen and broaden the energy partnership, including "exploring mutual investments." The Amir's visit provided an "excellent opportunity" for the top leadership of the two countries to discuss and "cement a strategic partnership for enhanced future cooperation."
A group of students from Coimbatore have designed a robot that is capable of conducting specific lunar missions.
ThinkLABS Technosolutions announces Robocamp, a hands-on learning camp based on robotics and virtual robotics for schoolchildren in Mumbai.
rediffGURU Dr Vinod Kumar offers advice on how to improve your lifestyle and keep your kidneys healthy.
Evidence emerging from a trial suggests that pupils who are on the autistic spectrum learn better from the automatons than human teachers.
A hitchhiking robot that captured millions of hearts by successfully travelling across Canada and parts of Europe has met a violent end after being vandalised in the US, just two weeks into its cross-country trek.
Mrs succeeds in riling you up for all the right reasons. And without resorting to high-pitched drama, applauds Sukanya Verma.
If you still believe that real-world robots are benign, used as pets or to handle micro-surgeries and help human beings with domestic tasks like cleaning and maintenance or handle dangerous industrial tasks, you may want to think again.
The Bharatiya Janata Party on Sunday promised to enact an-anti conversion law with stringent provisions in Maharashtra, and also assured a skill census for training as per industry needs as well as free ration to low-income families.
With India's EV penetration at just 2.5 per cent, the market presents an opportunity -- provided Tesla gets its pricing right.
'You don't need massive industry or huge energy resources.' 'You could start with just 3 or 4 people in a coffee shop and invent the world.'
Farm workers and drivers will figure among the fastest growing jobs over the next five years, while roles of cashiers and ticket clerks will see the largest decline, a new study showed on Wednesday. In its Future of Jobs Report 2025, the World Economic Forum (WEF) also said that 170 million new jobs will be created by 2030, while 92 million are projected to be displaced, resulting in 78 million net new jobs.
The nature of war and its purpose remains unchanged. The change is in the character of war in terms of a man-machine mix, domination of sensors and certain automation of the tactics and methods of war, points out Colonel Anil A Athale (retd).
An international team has developed the 'Lingodroids' -- a pair of mobile robots -- which communicate by generating their own words for new places, and relationships between the places based on distance and direction.
According to the New Scientist, a team at Reading University, which has already used rat brain cells to steer a simple-wheeled robot, is now trying the same thing with human brain cells. In fact, for the robot with rat brain cells, 300,000 rodent neurons grown in a nutrient broth and producing spikes of electrical activity were connected to output of the robot's distance sensors. The neurons proved capable of steering the robot around a small enclosure.
Hollywood's biggest night was high on glitz and glamour but lacked the edge and excitement of the movies it was celebrating, observes Sukanya Verma.
Indian students are looking at destinations that offer quality education coupled with unique cultural and career experiences, often at more affordable costs, says Gaurav Batra, CEO, Infinite Group.
Japanese researchers at the University of Tokyo have created a dancing robot that copies moves from a human teacher at one go itself, without the need for time consuming rehearsals.
The American-made robot housed in Moscow's Robo Station predicted a few hours before kickoff that France would beat Belgium in Tuesday's semi-final in St Petersburg.
A feeble fable masquerading as a robo rom-com, Teri Baaton Mein Aisa Uljha Jiya aspires to address what unrealistic expectations in a relationship can lead to, observes Sukanya Verma.
In fact, since 2013, China has become the largest market for robots.
Other private banks also planning to employ bots soon
'Binary fission will happen -- startups will lead to more startups.'
2 engineered prototypes of the robots are under trial.
