The new work, which the researchers are presenting this week at the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, builds on a long sequence of papers on origami robots from the research group of Daniela Rus, the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor in MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. "It's really exciting to see our small origami robots doing something with potential important applications to health care," says Rus, who also directs MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). "For applications inside the body, we need a small, controllable, untethered robot system. It's really difficult to control and place a robot inside the body if the robot is attached to a tether." Joining Rus on the paper are first author Shuhei Miyashita, who was a postdoc at CSAIL when the work was done and is now a lecturer in electronics at the University of York, in England; Steven Guitron, a graduate student in mechanical engineering; Shuguang Li, a CSAIL postdoc; Kazuhiro Yoshida of Tokyo Institute of Technology, who was visiting MIT on sabbatical when the work was done; and Dana Damian of the University of Sheffield, in England.

A pill that unfolds into a little robot could one day give parents everywhere a little more peace of mind. Once swallowed, it can open up inside a person's stomach, crawling across the stomach wall to retrieve a single-cell button battery, and even patch wounds. This is no small thing. In the US every year, over 3,500 incidents of swallowed button batteries are reported in the US, and most cases of battery swallowing involve toddlers. Although most of these batteries are safely digested, sometimes they can leak and cause tissue burns, bleeding, and death.

Futurist, inventor and Google Inc. director of engineering Ray Kurzweil has some high praise -- and a friendly dig -- for the Waterloo region. Kurzweil said he visits many communities and gives many speeches like the one he delivered Thursday at the Tech Leadership Conference, hosted by the innovation hub Communitech. Wherever he goes, people tell him he's visiting the region's equivalent of Silicon Valley: "Our community is the Silicon Valley of the Left Bank of Paris, our community is the Silicon Valley of Tel Aviv." "Kitchener-Waterloo and the Toronto area really are a Silicon Valley, second only maybe to the actual Silicon Valley. A place that celebrates the idea that failure is something to be, if not encouraged, at least accepted," he said. "We have a word for failure. The only way to make these innovations in the world is to accept these frustrations and setbacks."

Good afternoon, my name is --, and I'll be your conference coordinator today. I would like to welcome everyone to NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA) Financial Results Conference Call. All lines have been placed on mute. After the speakers' remarks, there will be a question-and-answer period. Participants to register for question by pressing one followed by the four on your telephone. This is conference is being recorded Thursday, May 12, 2016. I would now like to turn the call over to Arnab Chanda Vice President of Investor Relations at NVIDIA. With me on the call today from NVIDIA are Jen-Hsun Huang, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Colette Kress, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. I'd like to remind you that today's call is being webcast live on NVIDIA's Investor Relations website. It is also being recorded. You can hear a replay by telephone until May 19, 2016. The webcast will be available for replay up until next quarter's conference call to discuss Q2 financial results. The content of today's call is NVIDIA's property. It cannot be reproduced or transcribed without our prior written consent. During the course of this call, we may make forward-looking statements based on current expectations.

The Wisdom of Crowds is a phenomenon described in social science that suggests four criteria applicable to groups of people. It is claimed that, if these criteria are satisfied, then the aggregate decisions made by a group will often be better than those of its individual members. Inspired by this concept, we present a novel feedback framework for the cluster ensemble problem, which we call Wisdom of Crowds Cluster Ensemble (WOCCE). Although many conventional cluster ensemble methods focusing on diversity have recently been proposed, WOCCE analyzes the conditions necessary for a crowd to exhibit this collective wisdom. These include decentralization criteria for generating primary results, independence criteria for the base algorithms, and diversity criteria for the ensemble members. We suggest appropriate procedures for evaluating these measures, and propose a new measure to assess the diversity. We evaluate the performance of WOCCE against some other traditional base algorithms as well as state-of-the-art ensemble methods. The results demonstrate the efficiency of WOCCE's aggregate decision-making compared to other algorithms.

Infosys Ltd's embrace of automation and artificial intelligence technologies to boost employee productivity is taking longer than expected. India's second-largest software services exporter now expects the related productivity boost to reflect in a meaningful way only from April 2017. Chief executive officer Vishal Sikka had told Mint last October that he expected any "meaningful" impact to start reflecting by the end of March 2016. The development underlines the daunting task faced by Sikka, who is trying to put Infosys back on the global software services map and help the firm retain the bellwether tag in India's 146 billion outsourcing sector. Understandably, the theme of large-scale adoption of automation at the employer of more than 194,000 people was central to the US-based Sikka's five review meetings (including one with company's human resources head Kris Shankar) on his day-long trip to Bengaluru last Saturday.

WASHINGTON – U.S. special operations forces working with African partners called in an airstrike against the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabaab group in Somalia on Thursday, killing five, the Pentagon said. Jeff Davis said U.S. troops were advising and assisting Ugandan troops from the African Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) in southern Somalia, west of Mogadishu. The AMISOM troops were raiding an illegal Shabaab roadblock where the jihadis were extorting payments from drivers. "They came under fire from the al-Shabaab militants, and we called in an airstrike in their defense," Davis said. A U.S. defense official said the strike was conducted by drone.

Mumbai: Gurgaon-based employability assessment company Aspiring Minds is perhaps best known for giving the industry a very dim view of the quality of engineers in India. According to its 20 January report, "more than 80% of engineers in India continue to be unemployable". Aspiring Minds, however, does much more than just track the employability of engineers in the country. In the words of its co-founder and chief technology officer (CTO) Varun Aggarwal, Aspiring Minds is "interested in the big picture". "We ask questions like, 'How do we identify what jobs people in the job market will be successful at?'; 'How do we make this assessment, or automatically assess programming skills?'; 'Or, for that matter, gauge how well a candidate speaks English?'"

About a year and a half ago, I announced in a firm-wide meeting that the future of law must incorporate some form of artificial intelligence, allowing for quicker and certainly more accurate research for clients. I had started developing the project six months prior. That morning was my big revelation. I remember bounding into work so excited to share the news to the forty-plus Rose Law Group team members. I enthusiastically announced that we were in the process of developing a robot lawyer, who would make our research about 100 times quicker than a human, with a less than 1 percent chance of being in any way inaccurate.

A century ago, more than 60,000 tigers roamed the wild. Today, that number has dwindled to around 3,200. Poaching is one of the main drivers of this steep decline. Humans have pushed tigers to near-extinction, whether for their skins, medicine or for trophy hunting. The same applies to other large animal species like elephants and rhinoceros that play unique and crucial roles in the ecosystems where they live. Human patrols serve as the most direct form of protection of endangered animals, especially in large national parks.