Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next two months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. With a title like "What's new, Atlas?" for a video like this, you know that Boston Dynamics is just messing with us now: The game played out on a real set wherein Cozmo would roll through a series of trials, exploring rooms and solving puzzles which tested his ability to move, to place, stack, and turn blocks, and recognize faces and pets, testing Reddit's collective will to help him. Cozmo's quest: to gather three golden key cubes to be able to escape to Reddit's front page.

Family Flicks The delightful 1995 charmer Babe about a smart but sweetly naive little pig who goes to live on a storybook-like farm (each chapter is introduced with title cards by a trio of singing mice) is still a treat for adults and tots. James Cromwell is excellent as Farmer Hoggett. The meditative drama is as spare in dialogue as it is rich visually. Indeed it is the villainous, lip-reading AI computer, Hal 9000 (voiced by Douglas Rain), who delivers the film's most memorable lines. Thin Man Double Feature Shot over just two weeks on a B-movie budget, The Thin Man (1934) was an immediate hit with both critics and audiences.

Furthermore, effective deployment of machine learning and big data can support sophisticated real-time assessment of the risk inherent in every single online transaction. For each online transaction, banks must pose an apparently simple question: are you a trusted customer or a cybercriminal?

I just recently completed a book about a robot and artificial intelligence; this required me to do research on both.

Achieving superhuman playing level by AlphaGo corroborated the capabilities of convolutional neural architectures (CNNs) for capturing complex spatial patterns. This result was to a great extent due to several analogies between Go board states and 2D images CNNs have been designed for, in particular translational invariance and a relatively large board. In this paper, we verify whether CNN-based move predictors prove effective for Othello, a game with significantly different characteristics, including a much smaller board size and complete lack of translational invariance. We compare several CNN architectures and board encodings, augment them with state-of-the-art extensions, train on an extensive database of experts' moves, and examine them with respect to move prediction accuracy and playing strength. The empirical evaluation confirms high capabilities of neural move predictors and suggests a strong correlation between prediction accuracy and playing strength. The best CNNs not only surpass all other 1-ply Othello players proposed to date but defeat (2-ply) Edax, the best open-source Othello player.

In a new report launched by Hays today, 'Recruitment Remodelled' examines the evolution of the recruitment industry where the traditional human-centric skills of matching candidates with organisations are now working hand-in-hand with data science, machine learning, predictive analytics and other digital tools and technologies. Alistair Cox, Hays plc CEO, says, "In my ten years as CEO of Hays, I have never seen the recruitment and staffing industry evolving as rapidly as it is today. Technology, the dynamics of the digital world, and the advent of data science and machine learning are fuelling these changes. "For business, the fundamental underlying issue of finding the best talent for their organisation hasn't changed, but what has evolved across our industry is how to manage this process in an age where technology has brought new ways of finding top-quality talent." The traditional approach to recruitment - defined by Hays as'Advertise & Apply' - has relied upon organisations promoting their vacancies across multiple channels to solicit applications from jobseekers. This long-established model is no longer enough in today's digital world as it is primarily directed at the active, rather than the passive, jobseeker community. In addition, the ease at which candidates can respond to online job advertisements has led to an unwieldy process with high volumes of responses being received, many of which prove to be unsuitable for the role. A new recruitment model has been developed and deployed by Hays - defined as'Find & Engage' - that combines the best practice recruitment techniques and established candidate relationships with the new opportunities presented by digital technology, data science and machine learning. This approach is designed to maximise the likelihood of organisations finding the best talent by enabling them to search beyond those active jobseekers, and reach deep into a much wider pool of passive candidates. Alistair added, "There has always been a real art to recruiting the best talent, built around the development of trusted relationships and an ability to assess the compatibility of a candidate for the vacancy.

The latest Android smartphone from Chinese upstart OnePlus hopes to tempt users looking for the new all-screen experience, but at less than half the price of an iPhone X. The 5T is a revamped version of the 5 launched in June and marks the second time the company has updated its smartphone line more than once in a year. According to co-founder Carl Pei, this is because "when we've got new technology ready to go we don't want to leave our users with older devices". Launched in New York, the 5T is essentially a OnePlus 5 on the inside, with the same Qualcomm Snapdragon 835 processor, memory and storage options, fast-charging system and Oxygen OS software based on last year's Android 7.1.1, It even costs the same, priced at £449, undercutting rivals by at least several hundred pounds. But the 1080p AMOLED screen has been stretched to the now popular 18:9 ratio, filling the front of the display with thin bezels at the top, bottom and sides.

Dash Charge – a feature first introduced in the OnePlus 3 – also features in the 5T, allowing the device to gain a day's power in just 30 minutes of charging, even while using GPS of games One of the key new features in the OnePlus 5T is facial recognition, known as Face Unlock, which has been added to the OxygenOS operating system. Dash Charge – a feature first introduced in the OnePlus 3 – also features in the 5T, allowing the device to gain a day's power in just 30 minutes of charging, even while using GPS or games. The OnePlus 5T is available in both Slate Grey and Midnight Black, with 64GB and 128GB versions. It will be available in the US and in Europe from November 21, with prices starting from £499/$499/€499. The OnePlus 5T is available in both Slate Grey and Midnight Black, with 64GB and 128GB versions.

Personal robots, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have come a long way in recent years. But fundamentally, they're still stationary speakers whose defining expression is a light that turns on when you speak. It's not just that he--and I use the term he here, because that's how Jibo refers to himself--looks like something straight out of a Pixar movie, with a big, round head and a face that uses animated icons to convey emotion. It's not just that his body swivels and swerves while he speaks, as if he's talking with his nonexistent hands. It's not just that he can giggle and dance and turn to face you, wherever you are, as soon as you say, "Hey, Jibo."

Sure, Facebook has "M", Google has "Google Now", and Siri's voice isn't always that of a woman. But it does feel worth noting that (typically male-dominated) engineering groups routinely give women's names to the things you issue commands to. Is artificial intelligence work about Adams making Eves? The response to this critique is usually about the voices people trust and find easy to understand. Adrienne LaFrance over at The Atlantic does a good job discussing those points, so go read her article.