Some users over on Reddit were shocked by how empathetic they felt to Ameca’s many expressions. “This is actually quite charming,” one user wrote.
But the most common comparison — of course — was to the Terminator.
“Neat!” one Redditor commented. “Is this the Hunter-Killer or Human Infiltration model?”
Paradromics is a company developing brain computer interfaces that will help people with disabilities in communicating again. Their product will be the brain computer interface with the highest data rate ever developed. Will it compete with other companies like Neuralink or Kernel in the race to reading the brain?
0:00 Introduction to Paradromics.
1:45 The Product.
5:57 The Surgery.
7:41 Commercial availability.
Check out also this video on another Neuralink competitor, Kernel: https://youtu.be/DUICwT-fqt0
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Official Paradromics website: https://paradromics.com/
Paper — Laser Ablation of the Pia Mater for Insertion of High-Density Microelectrode Arrays in a Translational Sheep Model https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.08.27.269233v2
Paper — The Argo: A 65,536 channel recording system for high density neural recording in vivo https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.07.17.209403v1.full.
Paper — The Argo: a high channel count recording system for neural recording in vivo https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1741-2552/abd0ce.
Paper — Massively parallel microwire arrays integrated with CMOS chips for neural recording https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/12/eaay2789
Towards a High-Resolution, Implantable Neural Interface https://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2017-07-10
Matt Angle with an update from Paradromics and their new Neurotech Pub Podcast https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oSZGk3Smhsc.
The Data Organ: Paradromics CEO Matt Angle On The Future Of The Brain-Computer Interface https://www.forbes.com/sites/johncumbers/2020/04/19/the-data-organ-paradromics-ceo-matt-angle-on-the-future-of-the-brain-computer-interface/?sh=bc80a603d4ed.
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Used footage:
Stanford researchers develop brain-controlled typing for people with paralysis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oka8hqsOzg.
Matt Angle — A MICROWIRE-based In Vivo Neural Recording Platform with Up to 65,536 Channels https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FsGtkZ2Gqo.
Kernel Flow Live Stream https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RswhkU4eaVA
Neuralink Progress Update, Summer 2020 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvmgjBL74w.
Working on the Neuralink Robot https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gQn-evdsAo.
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Zindi is all about using AI to solve real-world problems for companies and individuals. And the South Africa-based crowd-solving startup has done that over the last three years they have been in existence.
Just last year a team of data scientists under Zindi used machine learning to improve air quality monitoring in Kampala as another group helped Zimnat, an insurance company in Zimbabwe, predict customer behavior — especially on who was likely to leave and the possible interventions that would make them stay. Zimnat was able to retain its customers by offering custom-made services to those who would have otherwise discontinued.
These are some of the solutions that have been realized to counter the data-centered challenges that companies, NGOs and government institutions submit to Zindi.
These are the buzziest talking points and biggest developments in enterprise automation for the next year.
A new video released by nonprofit The Future of Life Institute (FLI) highlights the risks posed by autonomous weapons or ‘killer robots’ – and the steps we can take to prevent them from being used. It even has Elon Musk scared.
Its original Slaughterbots video, released in 2017, was a short Black Mirror-style narrative showing how small quadcopters equipped with artificial intelligence and explosive warheads could become weapons of mass destruction. Initially developed for the military, the Slaughterbots end up being used by terrorists and criminals. As Professor Stuart Russell points out at the end of the video, all the technologies depicted already existed, but had not been put together.
Now the technologies have been put together, and lethal autonomous drones able to locate and attack targets without human supervision may already have been used in Libya.
Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook is pulling the plug on its facial recognition program. The company is planning to delete more than one billion people’s individual facial recognition templates, and will no longer automatically recognize people’s faces in photos or videos as a result of this change, according to its own post. The use of facial recognition technology has a disparate impact on people of color, disenfranchising a group who already face inequality, and Facebook seems to be acknowledging this inherent harm. The Breakdown You Need to Know.
CultureBanx reported that Meta seems to always be embroiled in corporate drama and with intense scrutiny. When you add that to the growing concern from users and regulators that facial recognition space remains complicated, an exit makes sense. More than 600 million daily active users on Facebook had opted into the use of the face recognition technology.
Research shows commercial artificial intelligence systems tend to have higher error rates for women and black people. Some facial recognition systems would only confuse light-skin men 0.8% of the time and would have an error rate of 34.7% for dark-skin women. Just imagine surveillance being used with these flawed algorithms. A 2018 IDC report noted it expects worldwide spending on cognitive and AI systems to reach $77.6 billion in 2022.
The bot is a platform that will used to test more robotic technologies.
A U.K.-based company Engineered Arts has developed a humanoid robot that can display human-like expressions with ease. In a short video released on YouTube, the company shows off its most advanced humanoid, dubbed Ameca, which is initially a platform for testing robotic technologies.
With new developments in artificial intelligence, machines are learning to not only do human tasks but also go further beyond. However, for humans and machines to work together more fluidly, machines need to occupy the same space and humanoids are the best platforms to do this. Researchers have been working to make humanoids more interactive by teaching them non-verbal communication and Ameca is quite a milestone in this area.
As is seen in the video above, the humanoid appears to have woken up in a robotic laboratory while an actual human is busy working in the background. The robot moves its arms, shows a flurry of expressions in a matter of seconds, and even expresses amazement at how its hands and fingers move fluidly before looking at the camera quite surprised. The teaser is a sufficient demonstration of what the robot can do when it comes to the upper half of the body.
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The winning face must be “kind and friendly.”
Could you use an extra $200K? That’s what a Russian robotics company is offering to pay someone who’s willing to surrender the rights to their face and voice — forever — for use in robot development. They’re looking for a face that’s “kind and friendly,” reports say.
According to a report by Newsweek, the company, named Promobot, is known for producing “hyper-realistic, humanlike” robots. In 2019, the Promobot company launched the “Android Robo-C,” a made-to-order robot that could be modeled after anyone’s appearance.
Currently, the report said, Promobot is looking for a face as a model for “a humanoid robot-assistant which will work in hotels, shopping malls and other crowded places.”
Engineered Arts has provided a sneak preview of its latest robot, Ameca, which it claims is the most advanced android ever built. The machine will be on display at CES 2022.
Founded in 2005, Engineered Arts is a UK-based company that designs and manufacturers humanoid entertainment robots. Its first machine, RoboThespian, appeared on stage at the Eden Project in Cornwall. Since then, the company has installed more than 100 robots at exhibitions, science centres, theme parks and other venues worldwide. Over the years, its robots have evolved to have more realistic human movements and ways of interacting with people.
Ameca, seen briefly in the video below, is the newest addition to the line-up – described as “the world’s most advanced human shaped robot, representing the forefront of human-robotics technology.”
Meet Ameca: with eerily realistic facial expressions and movements…
Cornwall-based Engineered Arts, which brands itself ‘the UK’s leading designer and manufacturer of humanoid entertainment robots’, unveiled the machine on YouTube to much excitement.
Many viewers expressed their amazement at how realistic and human-like the machine is.
One user wrote: ‘I know we’re supposed to be scared of AI, but this is the first gynoid that hasn’t creeped me out. It’s pretty cool.’
