Toy Fair New York 2017 – Booth #3035

“We are thrilled to incorporate some of the latest new tech elements we have been working with lately into this exciting line up here at Toy Fair in New York City?there is truly something for everyone in the family!” said Davin Sufer, Chief Tech Officer at WowWee. Fingerlings Friendship at your fingertips! Fingerlings baby monkeys come to life with endless ways of play and realistic sounds to let you know how they are feeling.

European Commission: ‘Attempting to regulate AI as portrayed in…

Politicians should not attempt to regulate the kinds of artificial intelligence that are portrayed in Hollywood movies like “Ex Machina,” according to the head of a technology-focused department at the European Commission. Roberto Viola, director general of DG Connect, the European Commission department that regulates communications networks, content, and technology, put forward his views on AI regulation in a blog post on Thursday.

The big Engine that very well might

Venture capitalist Katie Rae next month starts her job as head of MIT’s “The Engine,” whch will fund entrepreneurs’ big ideas. The 155-year-old university has helped pioneer water treatment, the radar systems key to the Allies’ victory in World War II, cybersecurity, speech recognition, navigation systems that helped Apollo astronauts reach the moon, genomics, the Scratch programming language for kids, and robots for the home and factory.

Google CEO responds to 7-year-old who wants job

Aside from working with computers, Chloe’s interest in a job with Google peaked after she saw a picture on the internet that showed Google employees sitting on bean bags, going down slides, and riding on go-karts. Having learnt from her father Andy Bridgewater about the lovely and creative work executed at Google, the 7-year old daughter eventually made a decision to write a letter to Sundar Pinchai without expecting any reply from him.

Why one senator is quizzing Yellen about robots taking U.S. jobs

To say Sen. Heidi Heitkamp didn’t like the answer she received from Federal Reserve Chairwoman Janet Yellen on the issue of automation taking away jobs is a bit of an understatement. Heitkamp, a North Dakota Democrat who sits on the Senate Banking Committee, asked Yellen at a hearing Tuesday about whether the central bank has studied the issue – she referenced a Bank of England study that showed up to 80 million U.S. jobs at risk – and how to draw attention to it.

China plans smart health and elderly care

China plans to develop the smart health and elderly care industry in the next four years to grants universal access to health management services and home-based elderly care, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology said Thursday. According to an action plan jointly made by the MIIT, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Health and Family Planning Commission, China will build a smart health and elderly care industry with more than 100 industrial leading enterprises and a number of brands by 2020.

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A seven-year-old girl who loves robots and computers got something of a shock when Google chief Sundar Pichai responded personally to her job application. Chloe Bridgewater, from Hereford, sent the letter to the technology giant’s head offices in Silicon Valley in the US last Monday, saying: “My dad said I can sit on bean bags and go down slides and ride go karts in a job in .”

Do Robots and AI Deserve Rights?

When it comes to robot-human relations, the conversation typically centers on the welfare of the sentient. Science fiction paints us as petrified by our own creations; fears of a bot planet have influenced everything from Asimov’s “Laws of Robotics” to HAL 9000’s homicidal impulses to Skynet’s global genocide.

Girl, 7, ‘over the moon’ as Google chief replies to job application

A seven-year-old girl who loves robots and computers got something of a shock when Google chief Sundar Pichai responded personally to her job application. Chloe Bridgewater, from Hereford, sent the letter to the technology giant’s head offices in Silicon Valley in the US last Monday, saying: “My dad said I can sit on bean bags and go down slides and ride go karts in a job in .”

Always ‘Just Around the Corner,’ AI Finally Arrives

After years of being on the verge of arriving, the AI revolution is here, says Heavy Reading Senior Analyst Steve Bell. “There’s a saying that AI is going to be big in the next ten years, but they’ve been saying that for the last 20 years,” the Heavy Reading man said in a wide-ranging interview with Light Reading.

Chinese Smart Robot Maker CloudMinds Creates CI-based Robots by Upgrading from AI to CI

SoftBank has completed a series A investment in CloudMinds and appointed CloudMinds CEO CloudMinds, the world’s first CI-based robot operator, is committed to the exploration of how to move from Artificial intelligence to CI. difference between AI and machine intelligence is that AI combines machines with human beings rather than treating them as wholly separate entities.

Robots’ influence growing in the food, packaging industries

Customization and variability are at an all-time high and food producers must keep up with the trends while trying to anticipate the future and robotics’ ability to provide flexible automation will be key in making the industry grow. The global food industry represents nearly $8 trillion of the world’s GDP, according to Plunket Research.

Event to showcase robotics expertise

THE BUSINESS events arm of tourism organisation VisitScotland is looking to position Scotland at the forefront of the robotics industry with an event that will examine the future of the computer-human interaction. InnovateRobotics, which will take place in St Andrews tomorrow, comes a month before 600 engineers and business people from around the globe will congregate in Edinburgh for the European Robotics Forum.

Robotic Flight Simulator Surgery Market Analysis 2016-2027: Key…

Market Scenario: Robotic Flight Simulator Surgery is such a surgical system which is like an aircraft, it is reflected to be only as good as the preliminary , and the current training required for expertise in robot-assisted surgery is inappropriately less than ideal. The Robotic flight simulator surgery system is addressing the quickly growing demand for the surgical practice to be made perfect without endangering the safety of the patient.

Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Applications Enable Organizations to…

Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Applications Enable Organizations to Optimize the Digital Supply Chain with Improved Visibility and Predictive Insights /PRNewswire/ — Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience – Oracle announced that it is expanding its Internet of Things portfolio with four new cloud solutions to help businesses fully utilize the benefits of digital supply chains. These solutions enable businesses to detect, analyze, and respond to IoT signals and incorporate these insights into existing and rapidly evolving market capabilities.

Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Applications Enable Organizations to…

Oracle Internet of Things Cloud Applications Enable Organizations to Optimize the Digital Supply Chain with Improved Visibility and Predictive Insights /PRNewswire/ — Oracle Modern Supply Chain Experience – Oracle announced that it is expanding its Internet of Things portfolio with four new cloud solutions to help businesses fully utilize the benefits of digital supply chains. These solutions enable businesses to detect, analyze, and respond to IoT signals and incorporate these insights into existing and rapidly evolving market capabilities.

Tying Knots with Industrial Robots

We’re not ashamed to admit that we desperately want a pair of high-end industrial robot arms to play around with. We don’t know where we’d put them – maybe the living room? – but we know that we’d figure something out.

Maven Expands Car-Sharing Services To Atlanta

Aimed at those searching for the latest automotive news delivered in a timely manner, the news category reports about new car releases and brings exclusive stories from the automotive niche. Car news are delivered every day and focused on those in need of the newest from the automotive world.

DARPA sued as competition to build space robots heats up

Orbital ATK, a Dulles-based aerospace manufacturer, is suing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over plans to award a Canadian firm a $15 million contract to build a fleet of space-faring robots capable of repairing government and commercial satellites. Satellites are often declared obsolete because of problems that could be fixed easily if the objects were accessible, and the satellites’ owners are saddled with the extra costs of sending replacements into orbit.

With eyes on Venus and Mars, ISRO attempts mega world record

Buried and hidden in the hundreds of pages of the new format electronic budget documents, is the first formal acknowledgement by the government about these two new bold inter-planetary sojourns to Earth’s immediate neighbours. This uplifting news comes ahead of the Indian Space Research Organisation attempting to undertake its mega launch where it will drop off into space not one, two or three but a full load of 104 satellites in space in a single mission.

robotpy-cscore 2017.0.0rc3

These are python bindings for the cscore library, which is a high performance library used in the FIRST Robotics competition to serve video to/from robots. However, the core library is suitable for use in other applications, and is comparable to something like mjpg-streamer.