This photo provided by Alireza Ramezani, University of Illinois, shows a Bat Bot, a three-ounce flying robot that they say can be more agile at getting into treacherous places than standard drones. Because it mimics the unique and more flexible way bats fly, this new robot prototype can do a better and safer job getting into disaster sites and scoping out construction zones than those bulky drones with spinning rotors, said the three authors of a study released Wednesday, Feb. 1, 2017, in the journal Science Robotics.

VR/AR and Voice-Activated AI are hot topics at 2017 DEW! The panel will focus on what is available in the market today. What are the available apps, content, devices, and head gear? What is the current state of consumer adoption? Mr. Lelyveld will present an overview and update on the state of art, technology, and business of AR.

All of a sudden, AI is everywhere--in consumer products, in our entertainment, in our consciousness. Every day we hear stories from Google, Uber, Baidu, Microsoft, Amazon and others about unprecedented achievements in language translation, gaming, image recognition, music composition, beer-delivering driverless trucks, and a host of achievements, all powered by AI. But what is AI, really? And, to be fair, do we even understand what intelligence is? In 1983, and long before what we think of now as the Internet, a developmental psychologist named Howard Gardner published what is now a seminal work on the "Theory of Multiple Intelligences".

By predicting moods, AI like this can help ease social interactions for people who find them difficult. Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and the Institute of Medical Engineering and Science (IMES) have developed a wearable they say can predict the mood of its wearer by analyzing speech patterns and physiological signs. The system may someday serve as a social coach for people with anxiety or Asperger's syndrome. "Imagine if, at the end of a conversation, you could rewind it and see the moments when the people around you felt the most anxious," Tuka Alhanai, a CSAIL graduate student who worked on the project, said in a statement. "Our work is a step in this direction, suggesting that we may not be that far away from a world where people can have an AI social coach right in their pocket."

Artificial intelligence is a stream of computer science which deals with making computers act like humans. In other words AI involves intelligent machines. Gartner research suggests that, in a few years, for up to 89% of companies, customer experience will be the factor that decides on success or failure. Also, in five years, 85% of relationships between a customer and a business enterprise will not involve interacting with a human. With the development of AI, machines are able to carryout actions that were once believed to require human intelligence.

People with a rare condition called complete locked-in syndrome may finally have a link to the outside world. By reading the brain activity of completely paralyzed people in a new way, researchers could tell whether the test subjects were thinking'yes' or'no' in response to a question. The results were published Tuesday in the journal PLOS Biology. Four people with complete locked-in syndrome used the new technology to report that they were happy. The findings indicate that these people actually can communicate, with help from the right technology.

A single conversation can be interpreted in very different ways. For people with social anxiety or conditions like autism, this can make social situations extremely stressful. But a new device that can detect if a conversation is happy or sad based on speech patterns could make life easier for people who struggle in these situations. The Samsung Simband predicts if a conversation is happy or sad based on a person's speech patterns. Long pauses and monotonous vocal tones were associated with sadder stories.

Melville, NY (PRWEB) January 17, 2017 – Nastel Technologies, a global provider of enterprise-grade operations analytics and application performance monitoring (APM) solutions, announced the next-generation version of its flagship software platform, AutoPilot Insight 2.0. According to Charley Rich, VP Product Management "The new release fuses predictive anomaly and machine learning capabilities, business transaction tracking that spans corporate firewalls, raw information handling and analytics speed, and the flexibility to operate across dynamic IT environments--from mobile to mainframe. It provides the broad array of capabilities needed by developers, IT admins, and business analysts for enterprise-grade operations intelligence and APM." Rich said building a solution that fully addresses today's client requirements demanded two years of ground-up product re-engineering. "Customers universally remarked that they needed to find data outliers faster and sense problem conditions before they actually affect users. They also wanted more powerful end-to-end transaction tracking capabilities, with the ability to tie transaction performance to business outcomes."

PHOENIX--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aspect Software, a global provider of fully-integrated consumer engagement, workforce optimization and self-service solutions, announced today that it is making its Aspect Mila personal assistant chatbot available on leading workforce collaboration and messaging platforms such as Slack, Microsoft Teams and Facebook Workplace. Announced last year, Mila provides contact center and enterprise employees with automated self-service functionality to view schedules, request time off or trade shifts with other employees. Mila simplifies day-to-day administrative challenges faced by thousands of employees in call centers and other large labor force employers while also reducing the oftentimes labor-intensive workload of schedule management. With plain, conversational language, Mila allows employees to easily ask for a day off or pick up a shift right from within Slack. Supervisors and managers no longer have to field the administrative requests from employees, leaving that instead to Aspect Mila and Aspect's Workforce Management solution.

In America, congenital cataracts--a clouding of the eye lens at birth that can lead to blindness--are vanishingly (and thankfully) uncommon. Like tooth decay or tetanus, better screening and technologies have led to earlier diagnoses, and the problem can largely be cured with surgery. But in developing countries, a lack of widespread expertise and resources mean that hundreds of thousands of children are now blind due to this treatable disease. "Missed or mistaken diagnoses, as well as inappropriate treatment decisions, are common among rare-disease patients and are contrary to the goals of precision medicine, especially in developing countries with large populations, such as China," write a group of Chinese researchers in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Biomedical Engineering. These researchers aim to fix that preventable treatment gap by using eagle-eyed AI.