Over 800 leading scientists, companies, and policymakers working in robotics will convene at the European Robotics Forum (#ERF2017) in Edinburgh, 22-24 March. This year's theme is "Living and Working With Robots" with a focus on applications in manufacturing, disaster relief, agriculture, healthcare, assistive living, education, and mining. The 3-day programme features keynotes, panel discussions, workshops, and plenty of robots roaming the exhibit floor. Visitors may encounter a humanoid from Pal Robotics, a bartender robot from KUKA, Shadow's human-like hands, or the latest state-of-the-art robots from European research. Success stories from Horizon 2020, the European Union's framework programme for research and innovation, and FP7 European projects will be on display.

The Apple Store has gone down, probably signalling new iPhones are on the way. It's not possible to buy anything from Apple online at the moment. And while that might just be because the store is being updated, it's far more likely that it signals new products are about to drop. That could include an updated iPhone 7, potentially in a new red colour, as well as an iPhone SE. The latter phone currently packs the iPhone 6s's insides into a smaller body – and so it's likely that the new phone could bring the updates that came with the iPhone 7 into a 5s package.

A once green planet is burning in the black of space, its atmosphere corroding further with every cycle of the sun. The occupants are troubled, worried for their futures as nations divide. Some are ruled over by a furious orange-skinned despot, others by an imperious ice queen. An imbalance has developed that could tear apart alliances that are already unstable. Oh, and on this planet, there's a new Mass Effect game being launched.

The /pol/ - Politically Incorrect message board, which pro-Donald Trump, revealed the apparent move in a Twitter update, alongside screenshots supposedly showing off webcam footage. "How did I just find out that we can watch the border and report illegals trying to cross from the comfort of our homes and/or basements," a 4chan user wrote in a post over the weekend. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session 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 ...

Aldi customers have been warned to stay away from hoax vouchers circulating on email and social media which trick shoppers into thinking that they can save money. The German retailer said the £65 vouchers, that circulated on platforms such as Facebook and Twitter, are worthless and will not be accepted as legal tender at their stores. Aldi said it was investigating the scam and urged customers not to share their personal details, which could help scammers to commit identity fraud. "We advise customers to ignore these adverts and not to share any personal information," the supermarket said in a statement sent to the Independent. On Twitter, the supermarket said: "We are aware that there is a hoax £65 Aldi voucher being circulated. This voucher is fraudulent and cannot be redeemed in store."

The stunning advancement of artificial intelligence and machine learning has brought advances in society. These technologies have improved medicine and how quickly doctors can diagnose disease, for example. IBM's AI platform Watson helps reduce water waste in drought stricken areas. AI even entertains us--the more you use Netflix, the more it learns what your viewing preferences are and makes suggestions based on what you like to watch. However, there is a very dark side to AI, and it's worrying many social scientists and some in the tech industry.

Morrisons is using artificial intelligence to stock its stores in a bid to improve efficiency and customer service. The supermarket is rolling out a system from tech firm Blue Yonder that uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to predict exactly what is needed in each of Morrisons' 491 stores. Morrisons has been trialling the technology in select stores for around 18 months, and is now introducing it across its store portfolio. To build its stocking algorithm, Morrisons gave Blue Yonder three years of sales data for every single store, and the exact weather around every store over the same period. This means the algorithm knows which stores sells more pies, and when, but it can also learn.

Gabrielle Douglas of the United States of America competes on the balance beam in the Artistic Gymnastics Women's Team final in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Steve Penny resigned as USA Gymnastics president last Thursday, following accusations of negligence in the sport's yearslong sexual assault scandal. Our eyes turned abroad last week, as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited South Korea and said "the policy of strategic patience has ended" for its neighbors to the north; the White House said it wouldn't repeat false claims that a British electronic intelligence agency helped with alleged (unproven) wiretapping of Trump Tower; and German Chancellor Angela Merkel, delayed by the snow, finally made her first visit to President Donald Trump, complete with an awkward handshake that wasn't. At home, a Hawaii judge also said "not so fast" to Trump's revised travel ban that for the second time looked to restrict which people can enter the country. Here are five stories -- that have nothing to do with Trump, Tillerson or The Spokesperson In Chief -- you might have missed in all of the globetrotting.

Building Issues in local government may in the future be handled automatically by Artificial Intelligence (AI).

Local Process Models (LPM) describe structured fragments of process behavior occurring in the context of less structured business processes. Traditional LPM discovery aims to generate a collection of process models that describe highly frequent behavior, but these models do not always provide useful answers for questions posed by process analysts aiming at business process improvement. We propose a framework for goal-driven LPM discovery, based on utility functions and constraints. We describe four scopes on which these utility functions and constrains can be defined, and show that utility functions and constraints on different scopes can be combined to form composite utility functions/constraints. Finally, we demonstrate the applicability of our approach by presenting several actionable business insights discovered with LPM discovery on two real life data sets.