Reinforcement Learning (RL) has brought forth ideas of autonomous robots that can navigate real-world environments with ease, aiding humans in a variety of tasks. RL agents have just begun to make their way out of simulation into the real world. Once in the real world, benchmark tasks often fail to transfer into useful skills. We introduce DoorGym, a simulation environment intended to be the first step to move RL from toy environments towards useful atomic skills that can be composed and extended towards a broader goal. DoorGym is an open-source door simulation framework designed to be highly configurable. We also provide a baseline PPO (Proximal Policy Optimization) and SAC (Soft Actor-Critic)implementation, which achieves a success rate of up to 70% for common tasks in this environment. Environment kit available here:https://github.com/PSVL/DoorGym/

Ocean explorers have discovered the bow of the USS Grunion off the coast of Alaska nearly 80 years after it was lost during the Second World War. A team from the Lost 52 Project found the submarine part in 2,700 ft (820m) of water near the Aleutian Islands using pioneering robot technology. The Gato-class submarine, which was carrying 70 people on board when it sank, was last heard from in July 1942. In 2006, the sons of the ship's captain Lieutenant Commander Mannert'Jim' Abele - Bruce, Brad and John - began a search for the lost submarine, finding it a year later. The USS Grunion was a Gato-class submarine that sank during the Second World War.

On behalf of Pulsus Group, we take immense pleasure in inviting all the participants from all over the world to attend "International Conference on Robotics and Artificial intelligence" which is going to held on February 17 -18, 2020 at Paris, France. The conference will be organized around the theme "Probing Innovations-Opportunities in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence" Robotics & AI 2020 collaborates artificial intelligence with robots to allow robots to react and respond to their surroundings in real-time, without guidance other than computer programming. There are a huge opportunity and possibility of growth in robotics and artificial intelligence. The event will provides a prominent platform by gathering eminent professors, Researchers, Students and delegates to exchange new ideas. The conference will cover a wide range of topics and allow participants to discuss the new technologies developed in Robotics and Artificial intelligence field.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, speaking at an event in January 2019 honoring the legacy of Dr. Luther King, said, "Algorithms are still made by human beings, and those algorithms are still pegged to basic human assumptions. And if you don't fix the bias, then you are just automating the bias." Though her comments were correct--algorithms can indeed reflect and exhibit human bias--Rep. Ocasio-Cortez's framing of the intersection of algorithms and fairness highlighted an often-ignored issue in progressive politics. The political movement, defined in part by its commitment to social justice, is unsurprisingly critical of the potential for algorithms, particularly AI, to facilitate discrimination, yet seemingly pays little attention to the ways in which algorithms can actually reduce discrimination.

St. Cloud, Minnesota, USA –New Flyer of America Inc., a subsidiary of NFI Group Inc., the largest bus manufacturer in North America, recently announced an exclusive partnership with Robotic Research, LLC to advance autonomous bus technology through developing and deploying advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS) in heavy-duty transit bus applications. Last week, New Flyer had more big news as the company announced a new contract from New York's Capital District Transportation Authority for four 40-foot, zero-emission, battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE heavy-duty transit buses. New Flyer invested more than two years assessing world-leading technology providers for sophisticated autonomous vehicle development. It ultimately selected Robotic Research based on the company's proven, industry-leading, artificial intelligence-based technology, coupled with its extensive experience delivering successful Level 5 autonomous vehicle applications for customers within the defense and intelligence community, including the U.S. Department of Defense. "New Flyer has a proud history of leading innovation, industry firsts, and technology advancement in public transportation," said New Flyer President Chris Stoddart, in a press release "Our ADAS vision supports the mobility needs of all Americans relying on public transit for safe and reliable transportation every day. Partnering with Robotic Research furthers our commitment to utilize the best expertise and technology available, while reaffirming our responsibility to work with regulators and stakeholders on standards and test protocols that integrate automated vehicles safely into the existing transportation system."

Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced its intent to acquire privately-held Voicea, headquartered in Mountain View, CA. Voicea is the creator of a market-leading real-time solution that provides meeting transcription, voice search, and meeting highlights/action items, with robust data privacy. It helps teams have more productive and actionable meetings by turning talk into action. With Voicea technology, Cisco will enhance its Webex portfolio of products with a powerful transcription service that blends AI and Automated Speech Recognition (ASR) to unlock the power of any collaboration, like meetings and calls. Our first focus with Voicea is to turn meetings into a treasure trove of digital meeting notes and insights.

The Singapore edition of World AI Show reinvigorated the nation's AI efforts by bringing in top global investors, startups, digital companies, solution providers and AI experts such as Dr Terence Hung from Rolls-Royce Singapore; Sutowo Wong from the Ministry of Health, Singapore; and Guido Jouret, Chief Digital Officer of ABB; to name a few. Given its infrastructure capacity, education system and investor-friendly laws, Singapore has all the right ingredients to nurture a robust AI ecosystem that could be the cornerstone for the small island's economic upswing. According to a recent report by Accenture, AI could add up to US$215 billion in gross value across 11 industries in Singapore by 2035. With the Singapore government's vehement efforts to foster initiatives in the AI space, the nation was the ideal location to host the 9th edition of the global World AI Show series that had hit the ground running for the second time in Singapore on 24 July 2019. The show was organised by international business events and consulting firm, Trescon.

About the Company: PlaceIQ is a powerful, location-based audience and insights platform that organizes a wide variety of consumer activity data around a precise location base map at massive scale. PlaceIQ uses its detailed understanding of location and consumer activity to reach a targeted audience, and also to derive powerful insights about consumer behavior to inform market and business strategies for national brands. The company is headquartered in New York City and has offices in Palo Alto, Chicago, and Detroit. Summary: Having already assembled an exceptionally skilled, diverse and passionate team of developers and data scientists, we are looking for world-class engineers that can (or are willing to learn how to…) do it all. From building data pipelines to regression models/classification algorithms, complex data visualizations to geospatial clustering, a full stack enterprise targeting platform to big data analytics, PlaceIQ software engineers live for huge challenges and know how to deliver in a fast paced, agile environment.

New article says that to take full advantage of deep-learning solutions in healthcare, the US and China should collaborate, not compete. In a new commentary article, titled'It Takes a Planet', Eric Topol, MD, of Scripps Research and Kai-Fu Li, PhD, CEO of the China-based tech investment firm Sinovation Ventures have argued for more collaboration between China and the US on artificial intelligence (AI) development. This comes in the wake of the US government ordering the AI company iCarbonX in China to divest its majority ownership stake in the Massachusetts-based company PatientsLikeMe. "Chinese academics and companies already have unfettered access to personal health data," they write. "To compete in AI health, US companies will need access to clinical data on a similar scale. How will that be possible if the current isolationist policy continues?"

Eighteen months ago, Mr. Cooper launched an intelligent recommendation system for its customer service agents to suggest solutions to customer problems. The company, formerly known as Nationstar, is the largest non-bank mortgage provider in the U.S., with 3.8 million customers, so the project was viewed as a high-profile cost-saver for the company. It took nine months to figure out that the agents weren't using it, says CIO Sridhar Sharma. And it took another six months to figure out why. The recommendations the system was offering weren't relevant, Sharma found, but the problem wasn't in the machine learning algorithms.