Artificial Intelligence in smartphones is changing the way enterprises do business as well as the way they reach out to consumers. This is a trending new technology which has great potential and is impacting both B2B as well as B2C companies. Let's take a glimpse of how smartphone AI is evolving and bringing about changes in the business world. It matters how intelligently a business is placed to live up to the technological advancements. If you would visualize something online which you like, you would most likely look for it in an actual physical store before you actually decide to order it.

With that in mind, we've outlined 50 ways in which retailers are putting AI into action, from personalising beauty to forecasting demand. While the predominant function of Sephora's Virtual Artist app is to allow beauty buyers to try on products virtually via augmented reality, the brand recently introduced a colour match tool, powered by AI. This tool determines the particular shade of a product on a photo and suggests similar products available at Sephora that the consumer can then try on and purchase. If there's one sector where AI has been making a lot of noise, it's beauty. Olay's Skin Advisor is an online consultation platform that can tell the true age of a user's skin from a selfie. By using AI to both evaluate and determine problem areas, as well as the overall condition of the skin, it also provides personalised skincare routines and reports.

In 2017, SenseTime announced a series of significant strategic partnerships in China and abroad. With Qualcomm, it initiated an "algorithm chip" collaboration increasing the intelligence of smartphones and other devices. The Company partnered with Honda to provide industry-leading autonomous driving technologies. Working with Suning, the largest consumer electronics retailer in China, the Company has helped to develop the Store of Future, which leverages facial recognition for check-out free shopping as well as customer big data analysis. In February 2018, the prestigious Massachusets Institute of Technology announced that SenseTime was the first company to join its Intelligence Quest project and the two parties created an AI alliance to define the next frontier of human and machine intelligence.

Even though Walmart was founded in 1962, it's on the cutting edge when it comes to transforming retail operations and customer experience by using machine learning, the Internet of Things (IoT) and Big Data. In recent years, its patent applications, position as the second largest online retailer and investment in retail tech and innovation are just a few reasons they are among the retail leaders evolving to take advantage of tech to build their business and provide better service to their customers. Lauren Desegur, VP of customer experience engineering at WalmartLabs said, "We're essentially creating a bridge where we are enhancing the shopping experience through machine learning. We want to make sure there is a seamless experience between what customers do online and what they do in our stores." While its arch nemesis in business may be Amazon.com,

Amazon's acquisition of connected home company Ring is complete, and to celebrate, the online retail giant is offering a nice deal. For a limited time, you can get a Ring Wi-Fi Enabled Video Doorbell in Satin Nickel for just $100. At the time of writing, the doorbell is currently not in stock until April 25, 2018, so people have clearly been taking advantage of this promotion. It's important to note this is for the original Ring doorbell, which was previously $133 on Amazon. The more recent Ring 2 doorbell retails for $199 and is not on sale.

In this exclusive guest piece, Mangal Anandan, Vice President, Products and Solutions for First Insight, Inc., explores some specific applications of machine learning in relation to PLM systems. First Insight empowers retailers and brands to design, select, price and market new products with confidence. Digital transformation will be the key to survival for many retailers and brands. We recently saw Mickey Drexler, who just announced his resignation from J.Crew, admit in a Wall Street Journal article that "he missed it," referring to his underestimation of the speed of change that technology would bring to retail. With the advent of big data, machine learning (ML) and other technologies are introducing new ways to manage everything from customer engagement, to design, to supply chain, to product lifecycle management and beyond.

In The News This Week is a page intended to keep my readers up to speed with anything new that I pickup online or offline that has to do with the robotic world that we are now entering very rapidly. Other pages of this website reviews a number robots that we are using on a daily basis in order to help make our lives easier, or as hobby, sport, or for professional purposes. If you would like to share your experience with any kind of robots you are using, or simply comment or ask questions, please feel free to do so at the bottom of any page or article. My latest article of "In The News This Week" starts from here. A house of 95 m2 / 1,022 sq ft has already been built thanks to this new technique. On the slab of freshly poured concrete, a robot moves on its wheels and makes work tirelessly with his articulated arm. He draws expansive foam cords one above the other to form a shuttering in which he then pour the concrete. This is how he manages to build perfectly insulated walls on each side at a bewildering speed. "It's been an hour and a half since the work began and the walls are already over 80 cm / 31 in. It is not a prototype, he pointed out, but a place that is meant to be useful. The 95 m2 / 1,022 sq ft house was finished by the end of that week and ready for the coming Christmas once the finishing work was completed. After being opened to the public, this T 5 will then be inhabited, a year later, by "traditional" tenants on the Nantes Métropole Habitat waiting list. "This house, which is already certified, says Benoit Furet, teacher-researcher at the University of Nantes at the heart of this project is called Yhnova.

Way back in 2017, retail industry analysts predicted a "retail apocalypse" due to the number of brick-n-mortar retailers that closed their doors. So far, however, the four horsemen of 2018 have not yet been summoned. Today, more businesses than ever are leveraging artificial intelligence (AI), augmented reality (AR), and virtual reality (VR) in retail to find new ways to attract and engage customers. Here are just a few ways retailers use mobile and emerging technologies to commingle brick-n-mortar and digital experiences. Consider the explosive growth of interactive voice technologies like Alexa, Google Home and Siri.

No question that Amazon is a smart operator. But it's also capable of some astounding blunders, particularly when automation and big data take a hand. That seems to be the case now as a lot of Amazon customers have found their accounts locked without much in the way of explanation or efforts to rectify the situation. For at least a week, many Amazon customers have complained on social media that their Prime accounts -- the ones that people pay for -- were either locked or closed with little to no explanation. Some are affiliates, meaning they help drive some business to the company.

To Stitch Fix's "hybrid design" tool, fashion design is a puzzle work of 30 to 80 pieces. On the website of online personal shopping service Stitch Fix, the company features a customer review that reads, "I love that my stylist listens to my feedback. The personal note included in my Fix shows how much pride she takes in serving each client." Stitch Fix's personal stylist is the best of its kind. Indeed, few stylists in the industry has achieved the same level of success at outfit pairing and shopping recommendation.