Uber has entered a new deal to offer customers in select cities an option for self-driving vehicles. The partnership is with Avride, which used to be the self-driving unit for Russian conglomerate Yandex. The multi-year deal will begin by introducing Avride's self-driving robots as a delivery option for Uber Eats orders in Austin, Texas. Later this year, the robots are expected to become available for delivery orders in Dallas and Jersey City, New Jersey. Autonomous driving is slated to begin service for Uber ride requests in Dallas in 2025. It will only be an option for "qualifying orders" on either Uber or Uber Eats, but the company didn't specify what those qualifications are.

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Rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have the potential to significantly increase the productivity, quality, and profitability in future manufacturing systems. Traditional mass-production will give way to personalized production, with each item made to order, at the low cost and high-quality consumers have come to expect. Manufacturing systems will have the intelligence to be resilient to multiple disruptions, from small-scale machine breakdowns, to large-scale natural disasters. Products will be made with higher precision and lower variability. While gains have been made towards the development of these factories of the future, many challenges remain to fully realize this vision. To consider the challenges and opportunities associated with this topic, a panel of experts from Industry, Academia, and Government was invited to participate in an active discussion at the 2022 Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC) held in Jersey City, New Jersey from October 3- 5, 2022. The panel discussion focused on the challenges and opportunities to more fully integrate AI into manufacturing systems. Three overarching themes emerged from the panel discussion. First, to be successful, AI will need to work seamlessly, and in an integrated manner with humans (and vice versa). Second, significant gaps in the infrastructure needed to enable the full potential of AI into the manufacturing ecosystem, including sufficient data availability, storage, and analysis, must be addressed. And finally, improved coordination between universities, industry, and government agencies can facilitate greater opportunities to push the field forward. This article briefly summarizes these three themes, and concludes with a discussion of promising directions.

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JERSEY CITY, N.J., Aug. 19, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Many consumers may soon be able to buy life insurance more quickly without undergoing inconvenient at-home medical tests. Management Research Services (MRS), a cutting-edge technology and data provider for the life insurance industry, is integrating Verisk's groundbreaking proprietary voice analytics into its telephone medical interviews to help flag potential tobacco users early and streamline the underwriting workflow. MRS is implementing Verisk's Tobacco Usage Propensity Model, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to analyze audio interviews. MRS will then apply the rules it has developed, based on Verisk's model output, to identify a small percentage of applicants who may require lab testing to verify their tobacco usage status, while enabling the vast majority of applicants to bypass lab testing. "Verisk will add tremendous value for our customers," said Tim Dineen, CEO of MRS.

Adults in the U.S. now spend more than six hours per day listening to, watching, reading or interacting with digital media which has huge implications for how brands market to their customers. Made in China or the USA? It won't matter: These jobs are going to robots In the near future, where goods are made will have no real bearing on where the jobs are. Jersey City, NJ-based Forbes Insights has teamed up with Ventura, CA-based real-time ad bidding platform The Trade Desk to ask 226 global CMOs in organizations across sectors with annual revenues of over $500 million about the issues and challenges they are facing. The findings released in its'The Modern CMO white paper' reveal that the biggest challenge that is keeping CMO's up at night is how to keep up with the changing consumption habits of today's digital consumer.

JERSEY CITY, N.J., Sept. 10, 2018 - Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, today announced that it is offering customers free access to Geomni's high-resolution aerial imagery following major loss events. Geomni will provide online access to before-and-after imagery of structures and properties inside the catastrophe area. This will enable viewers of the imagery the ability to better understand which areas have been affected by a particular major event and the extent of the damage. "The high-quality data collected by our state-of-the-art imagery resources is helping our customers make more informed property decisions, faster than ever before," said Geomni President Jeffrey C. Taylor. "This information can quickly provide important insights for experts who are deploying resources, setting loss reserves, verifying internal estimates, and much more."

JERSEY CITY, N.J., June 5, 2018 - Verisk (Nasdaq:VRSK), a leading data analytics provider, today announced a strategic alliance with Omnitracs, LLC, a global pioneer of fleet management solutions to transportation and logistics companies. As the first large-fleet commercial telematics service provider to align with Verisk, Omnitracs will now offer its subscribers the ability to contribute data to the Verisk Data Exchange(TM) and apply analytics to the operational safety of their connected fleets. Through the alliance, fleet owners have the option to transfer driving data collected by their Omnitracs telematics platform, the company's Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) fleet management solution, into the Verisk Data Exchange. By contributing their driving data, Omnitracs subscribers will be able to take advantage of fleet insurance services from participating insurance providers and receive operational safety feedback through focused analytics while keeping fleet managers in complete control of their data. "We're excited to expand our telematics-based insurance services to Omnitracs customers and help the insurance industry address the challenging commercial auto risk segment through innovative tools and solutions," said Saurabh Khemka, senior vice president and general manager, Verisk IoT/Telematics.

Late on the afternoon in April, Lisa Park stood in the middle of a cavernous room at Mana Contemporary, a factory-turned-gallery in Jersey City, New Jersey, holding hands with her intern. Beneath their feet, three pothole-sized metal plates were nestled into a patch of fake grass with wires running from them to a series of sensors that measure electricity. In front of the women, a 19 by 12-foot, semi-translucent screen stretched across the room shielding the tangle of wires, computers, and lights that hid behind it. Park, a multimedia artist known for turning brainwaves and heartbeats into performance art, gripped the woman's hand, and in tandem, they glanced up at the screen where a 3-D rendering of a leafless cherry blossom tree glowed in the dark. "It's supposed to bloom," Park said with a hint of frustration. The two women held each other tighter and waited.