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Agtech: Waitrose to trial autonomous farming robots
UK supermarket chain Waitrose is planning to deploy autonomous robots, from Shropshire-based robotics start-up Small Robot Company, to farm its Leckford Estate.
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Rolls-Royce & Finferries test world’s first fully autonomous ferry
Finnish ferry operator Finferries has demonstrated the world’s first fully autonomous ferry, thanks to a collaboration with engineering giant Rolls-Royce.
A car ferry, by the...
Q&A | Trifacta’s Sachin Chawla on getting the most out of...
The insights offered by Big Data are key to many businesses today. Getting the information that’s hidden within it isn’t easy but there are plenty...
Interview | Bloodhound’s Mark Chapman on taking smart manufacturing to 1,000mph
Bloodhound is a fast jet, Formula 1 car and space rocket rolled into one. At full speed, the supersonic vehicle will cover a mile...
How DLT, IoT and AI are converging to reshape transportation
Vangelis Andrikopoulos, Research Analyst at Outlier Ventures explains what the future of data storage and sharing might look like in the transportation sector.
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MIT researchers combat bias in AI training data
Bias in artificial intelligence (AI) systems can lead to inaccurate predictive models, inadequate search results, and discrimination, but a team of researchers at MIT...
Microsoft and Facebook team up on open-source AI
In a change of course, Microsoft is to start working more closely with Facebook on open-source AI. The two companies had previously been competing,...
Analysis | Google takes over DeepMind Health’s Streams, amid controversy
DeepMind Health, and its Streams app, are being brought under the direct control of Google, in a move that fuels past controversies around patient...
Microsoft, Tencent, Intel race to develop autonomous greenhouses
The world's population is expected to increase by another two and a half billion to 10 billion by 2055. At the same time, the...
AI diagnoses fall short when used across health systems, study reveals
AI tools trained to look for signs of pneumonia on chest X-rays can perform worse when tested on data from outside health systems, according...
Google Cloud unveils new tools to democratise AI
The appetite to take advantage of artificial intelligence (AI) has never been greater among business leaders. According to market research firm IDC, global spending on...
Analysis | Alibaba plans to make cloud computing its ‘main business’
Chinese e-commerce, media and technology giant Alibaba is planning to follow in the footsteps of Amazon and have its cloud computing business surpass its...