LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Eyenuk, Inc., a global artificial intelligence (AI) medical technology and services company and the leader in real-world applications for AI Eye Screening, announced that it has successfully fulfilled the contract awarded by Public Health England (PHE) to use Eyenuk's EyeArt AI Eye Screening System to grade 60,000 patient image sets from 6 different National Health Service (NHS) Diabetic Eye Screening Programmes in England. Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a vision-threatening complication of diabetes and a leading cause of preventable vision loss globally.1 In England, an estimated 4.6 million are living with diabetes, one-third of whom are at risk of developing DR. Diabetes has become a growing health concern as the number of people diagnosed with diabetes in the U.K. has more than doubled in the last 20 years.2 The U.K. has been leading the world in diabetic retinopathy screening, achieving patient uptake rates of over 80% (screening nearly 2.5 million diabetes patients annually),3 as compared with most parts of the world where typically less than half of diabetes patients receive annual eye screening.4 As a result, diabetic retinopathy is no longer the leading cause of blindness in the working age group in England.5

Most of the major economies are struggling to control the Wuhan virus in their region, but one country that stands out from the rest: South Korea. Utilizing big-data analysis, AI-based warning system & observation tools, Korea has already managed to bring coronavirus situation in the country under control in a short time. One of the major reasons behind this is their strategy to aggressively boost the number of coronavirus tests per day. Recently a South Korean company reports that by using artificial intelligence they have developed a simple tester that it said could detect if a person is infected with coronavirus disease 2019 in just 10 minutes. The company, PCL, a provider of in vitro diagnostic products, said its breakthrough testing kit, named COVID-19 Ag GICA Rapid, this testing kit can check nasal discharge for the presence of the virus within a period of time 10 minutes with an accuracy rate of more than 85 percent.

While the coronavirus pandemic is rapidly spreading in many countries across the globe, it also seems to be slowing down in some regions. China, for example, recently announced that it will lift lockdown imposed on Hubei located in Central China as that no domestic cases were reported after a long time. Additionally, after two months of total lockdown, the country has opened up a couple of public places that are attracting crowds. In order, to stay safe and detect people infected with the COVID-19 virus, China is equipping its officers with AI-powered smart glasses to find people with a fever, one of the symptoms of COVID-19. Security Staff at the Hongyuan park, section of Xixi wetland preserve in Eastern China are wearing these AI-powered smart glasses which help them to detect the body temperature of the park visitors.

Over the past few days, I've been reading the major plans for what comes after social distancing. You can read them, too. I thought, perhaps naively, that reading them would be a comfort -- at least then I'd be able to imagine the path back to normal. In different ways, all these plans say the same thing: Even if you can imagine the herculean political, social, and economic changes necessary to manage our way through this crisis effectively, there is no normal for the foreseeable future. Until there's a vaccine, the United States either needs economically ruinous levels of social distancing, a digital surveillance state of shocking size and scope, or a mass testing apparatus of even more shocking size and intrusiveness.

As the number of people who've tested positive for coronavirus is mounting and could reach 2 million in the coming days, Israeli innovators are harnessing artificial intelligence technologies to curb the global pandemic, perhaps the most challenging public health crisis in modern history. What we know already is that scientists and researchers are working diligently to find treatments and to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence technologies are emerging as key solutions to combatting coronavirus, and Israel is well positioned in this field. Israel is well known for its strength in deep-tech, and is also home to a vibrant AI ecosystem that has been growing rapidly over the past few years. Israel's unique tech ecosystem includes companies and startups that utilize AI technologies in healthcare, cybersecurity, autonomous driving, and many other fields.

Friedrichshafen, 15 April 2020 – CIMON-2, the updated version of the CIMON astronaut assistant, developed and built by Airbus for the German Aerospace Center Space Administration (DLR), has now demonstrated its capabilities during initial tests on the International Space Station (ISS). The free-flying, spherical technology demonstrator with artificial intelligence (AI) showed off a number of its features during interactions with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano. CIMON-2 started its journey to the ISS on 05 December 2019, launching with the CRS-19 supply mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. It is scheduled to stay on the ISS for up to three years. Just shy of two months after the successful first use of CIMON-2, the project team has now received the analysis.

When the beautiful Erica, a humanoid robot talked to a man at the International Conference on Intelligent Robots held last month in Madrid, Spain, the audience marveled at her uncanny human appearance and communication skills. She and many others like her are the prime focus of researchers in Japan, who are trying to understand how humanoid robots can be integrated freely into the world, to work alongside humans. The country which is considered a leader in tech and robotics is now witnessing a robot revolution -- everything from sex dolls to humanoid and industrial robots. According to the 2017 report of International Federation of Robotics (IFR), "The world now includes approximately 1.1 million working robots and machines account for 80 percent of the work in manufacturing a car." The report highlights that in 2016, robot sales in Japan increased by 10 percent to about 38,600 units, reaching the highest level since 2006 (37,400 units).

In the midst of South Africa's five-week extended lockdown, footage has emerged of a drone collecting data and enforcing social distancing. It offers a fascinating first-person view of AI-based software in action and yet another example of drones fighting against COVID-19. The footage comes from local South African publication Sowetan Live. A mayor within the largely rural Limpopo Province of South Africa has employed drone technology to monitor social distancing and enforce lockdown rules. Similar to implementations in other countries, this drone uses a public address system.

"The AI chip can perform the many calculations needed in just milliseconds," Thon explains. This type of chip is also known as "acceleration hardware" as a result. For the first demonstration, the researchers chose an application using an autonomous robot. The machine-learning algorithms and their implementation for the gripping process are the result of a collaboration between researchers from Corporate Technology in Berkeley and the University of California, Berkeley. The algorithm uses data from the 3D camera mounted on the robot arm to calculate the ideal points for grasping the target object.

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