A visitor to a Chinese tech fair was injured yesterday after a robot suddenly went out of control and smashed a booth, according to Chinese media. The three-foot-tall droid, which has been launched recently, is designed by a Chinese company to teach children English and is popular among families. The victim sustained cuts in the ankle caused by shattered glass and was taken to the hospital by staff at the booth. The incident took place at the China Hi-Tech Fair held in Shenzhen, southern China, on November, 17, according to a reported on Huanqiu.com, an affiliation to the People's Daily. The robot, which has been named'Little Chubby' by Beijing-based developer Evolver, is programmed to teach English as well as general knowledge to children aged between four and 12.

In past @ThingsExpo presentations, Joseph di Paolantonio has explored how various Internet of Things ( IoT) and data management and analytics (DMA) solution spaces will come together as sensor analytics ecosystems. This year, in his session at @ThingsExpo, Joseph di Paolantonio from DataArchon, added the numerous Transportation areas, from autonomous vehicles to "Uber for containers." While IoT data in any one area of Transportation will have a huge impact in that area, combining sensor analytics from these different areas will impact government, industry, retail and other processes, as well as life-style choices. These changes to transportation are happening now, but at varying maturity levels as we advance along a model of Connect, Communicate, Collaborate, Contextualize and Cognition. Attendees will come away with specific ideas on identifying value from transportation IoT data and sensor analytics in their own industry.

Fei-Fei Li is a big deal in the world of AI. As the director of the Artificial Intelligence and Vision labs at Stanford University, she oversaw the creation of ImageNet, a vast database of images designed to accelerate the development of AI that can "see." And, well, it worked, helping to drive the creation of deep learning systems that can recognize objects, animals, people, and even entire scenes in photos--technology that has become commonplace on the world's biggest photo-sharing sites. Now, Fei-Fei will help run a brand new AI group inside Google, a move that reflects just how aggressively the world's biggest tech companies are remaking themselves around this breed of artificial intelligence. Alongside a former Stanford researcher--Jia Li, who more recently ran research for the social networking service Snapchat--the China-born Fei-Fei will lead a team inside Google's cloud computing operation, building online services that any coder or company can use to build their own AI.

Airbus's vision for driverless flying taxis is one step closer to becoming a reality. MTSI and SOAR Oregon have been jointly awarded a'Flight Test and Range' to test the single seater self-piloted flying vehicle that can carry both cargo and human passengers. Airbus's innovation division, A³, unveiled plans for'Project Vahana' earlier this year, and says it hopes to have a full-sized prototype in the air by the end of 2017 and a model for sale on the market by 2020. Airbus's innovation division, A³, previously unveiled plans for'Project Vahana', which aims to have a full-sized prototype in the air by the end of 2017 and a model for sale on the market by 2020. Project Vahana began earlier this year and is one of the first projects at A³, the advanced projects and partnerships outpost of Airbus Group in Silicon Valley. The first conceptual renders have been revealed showing a sleek self-flying aircraft with room for one passenger who sits under a canopy that retracts similar to a motorcycle helmet visor.

FILE - In this Wednesday, Aug. 24, 2016, file photo, an autonomous vehicle, operated by nuTonomy, is driven during its test drive in Singapore. Cambridge, Mass.-based NuTonomy, a startup that makes driverless vehicles, says it will start testing its self-driving cars on public streets in Boston by the end of 2016.

A Christmas Facebook scam appears to be too good true be true – and, of course, very much is. Just one of a range of malicious hoaxes appearing across the network encourages people to spend money on buying gifts with the promise that they'll get far more gifts in return. Except only one half of that actually happens – and it's the bit that involves someone taking your money. The "Secret Sister Gift Exchange" involves some variation on a message asking people to take part as a way of spreading joy. A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Application transformation and DevOps practices are two sides of the same coin. Enterprises that want to capture value faster, need to deliver value faster - time value of money principle. To do that enterprises need to build cloud-native apps as microservices by empowering teams to build, ship, and run in production. In his session at @DevOpsSummit at 19th Cloud Expo, Neil Gehani, senior product manager at HPE, discussed what every business should plan for how to structure their teams to deliver. He's focused on solving problems for people building cloud-native apps as microservices packaged in containers.

Internet of @ThingsExpo, taking place June 6-8, 2017at Javits Center, New York City, is co-located with the 20th International @CloudExpo and will feature technical sessions from a rock star conference faculty and the leading industry players in the world. The Internet of Things (IoT) is the most profound change in personal and enterprise IT since the creation of the Worldwide Web more than 20 years ago. All major researchers estimate there will be tens of billions devices - computers, smartphones, tablets, and sensors - connected to the Internet by 2020. This number will continue to grow at a rapid pace for the next several decades. Help plant your flag in the fast-expanding business opportunity that is the Internet of Things: submit your speaking proposal today!

The saying goes: 'Never judge a book by its cover,' but that's exactly what new AI technology has been designed to do. A controversial paper has been released, which investigates whether a computer can detect if a human could be a criminal, by analysing their facial features. The results suggest that it is bad news for people with smaller mouths, curvier upper lips and closer-set eyes, as apparently these features suggest you could be a crook. The paper investigates whether a computer can detect if a human could be a criminal, by analysing their facial features. The researchers singled out three features that they suggest can tell whether someone will be a criminal or not – lip curvature, eye inner corner distance, and the angle from the tip of the nose to the corners of the mouth.

Internet giant Baidu is fast-forwarding its own self-driving car tests with a new public trial of autonomous vehicles, including cars supplied by Chinese automakers BYD, Chery and BAIC. The public tests opened for passengers on Tuesday, and have ferried around 200 people, as of today, across a 3.16 km (around 2 miles) stretch of road in tourist destination Wuzhen, which has been "mapped with centimetre accuracy," according to Baidu. The driverless vehicles are equipped with Velodyne LiDAR, video cameras, millimeter wave radar and a computer brain to make sense of all that data developed by Baidu in-house and installed in the trunk. The cars switch lanes, negotiate intersections, pass slower cars and even make U-turns, achieving a max top speed of 60 km per hour (37 mph) in accordance with the local speed limit. There is a driver present in case of a need to take over control, but they don't have their hands on the wheel throughout the trip unless necessary, according to Baidu.