CARFIT and CEA have signed an agreement to create a joint laboratory focused on Artificial Intelligence related to car vibrations and their interpretation. The lab will bring together teams from the List, a CEA Tech Institute, and from CARFIT to share knowledge and expertise. The joint lab will be dedicated to the development of artificial intelligence methods for identifying signs of mechanical failures exposed by car vibrations....

Here's an analogy using a concept that we can all relate to: a supermarket. Picture the scene: Shopping list in one hand, shopping basket in the other, you're ready to tackle your weekly shopping in your local supermarket. Your items range from fruit and vegetables to washing detergent, perhaps with some free-range eggs thrown in for good measure. Quite the eclectic mix, but you know that you'll be able to find all you need under one roof. The fact that this is possible is in itself quite remarkable.

Every part of the U.S. has a different local term for a convenience store: the bodega, the corner store--even "the Wawa," a chain name that Northeasteners use generically. Now Amazon wants to extend its brand to the notion of a grab-and-go shop with Amazon Go, a store that literally lets you grab and go. On Monday, more than a year after the company unveiled the concept and began a beta-test phase open only to its own employees, the first Amazon Go in Seattle will welcome all shoppers. In December 2016, when the company first teased the automated store–which eliminates cashiers and checkouts in favor of AI and cameras that detect the products you select--it said that it was coming in early 2017. Last March, however, the Wall Street Journal's Laura Stevens reported that Amazon was having trouble getting its "Just Walk Out" technology to work as the place filled up with customers.

As the rest of us wait in checkout lines while stocking up on groceries for the week, folks in Seattle are eagerly gearing up for the launch of the first store to eliminate cashiers. The much-anticipated Amazon Go grocery store will open its doors to the public on Monday, having weathered challenges that delayed its launch by almost a year. After working through the kinks and successfully testing the store's AI-driven technology with reviewers and employees, it seems Amazon is finally ready to open its automated storefront to the masses. Before entering the Amazon Go store, a shopper must download the free Amazon app and link it to their Amazon shopping account. The app launched today and is available for iPhone and Android.

As the calendar flips from 2017 to 2018, Chief Marketing Officers (CMOs) continue to witness a paradigm shift from traditional vendor-led customer experiences to ones where clients are firmly in the driver's seat. Building and executing strategies that empower customers, including mobile, personalization, customer self-service and omni-channel commerce, has never been more important -- and AI is helping to make it not only possible, but a competitive imperative. More than any other factor, rising customer expectations are driving change at an almost unimaginable scale. Early adopters of artificial intelligence (AI) are helping CMOs not only meet these challenges but also gain an edge over their more pragmatic, "wait and see" competitors. That could spell the beginning of the end for laggards, and the end of the beginning for leaders in the application of AI.

As we blast into 2017, marketers are wondering: what innovative technological developments will this year bring? How will these changes affect my strategy? What are my competitors doing, and more importantly, what are my customers expecting? These big, important questions require extensive research, if not a sixth sense for weeding out what's merely a fad, and what's as equally as groundbreaking as, say, the internet. To save you time, we've done the work for you.

Shoppers roam through an Amazon Go store in April. The automated grocery, which had been restricted to Amazon employees, will now be open to the general public starting Monday. Shoppers roam through an Amazon Go store in April. The automated grocery, which had been restricted to Amazon employees, will now be open to the general public starting Monday. Amazon on Monday will open its automated grocery in Seattle to the public, replacing cashiers with a smartphone app and hundreds of small cameras that track purchases.

Amazon has launched its AI-powered checkout-free supermarket today after more than a year of testing. The'Amazon Go' supermarket has no checkouts and instead works by tracking what users buy with AI-powered cameras and weight sensors. The grocery store on the bottom floor of the company's Seattle headquarters allows shoppers to scan their smartphone with the Amazon Go app at a turnstile, pick out the items they want and leave. The'Amazon Go' shop has no checkouts and instead works by tracking what users buy with AI-powered cameras To start shopping, customers must scan an Amazon Go smartphone app and pass through a gated turnstile. Ready-to-eat lunch items greet shoppers when they enter.

As the rest of us wait in checkout lines during our Sunday evening grocery shopping, folks in Seattle eagerly await tomorrow's public opening of the first store to eliminate the need for cashiers. The much-anticipated Amazon Go grocery store will open its doors to the public on Monday, January 22nd. The AI-powered shop encountered several challenges along the way to completion which delayed its launch by almost a year. After working through the kinks and successfully testing the store's technology among reviewers and employees, it seems as though Amazon is finally ready to serve the masses with its automated storefront. Before entering the Amazon Go store, a shopper must download the free Amazon app and link it to their Amazon shopping account.

In the shadow of Amazon's offices in downtown Seattle, people enter a tiny grocery store, take whatever they want, and then walk out. And nobody runs after them screaming. This is what it's like to shop at Amazon Go, the online retail giant's vision for the future of brick-and-mortar stores. There are no checkout clerks, or even checkout stands. Instead, a smartphone app, hundreds of regular and infrared cameras on the ceiling (black on black, so they blend in), computer-vision algorithms, and machine learning work together to figure out what you're picking up and charge you for it on a credit card connected to your Amazon account.