Google has added a number of emergency features to Maps and Search. SOS Alerts have been developed with the aim of delivering important updates to users during major disasters. These include maps, news reports, emergency phone numbers and translations of local phrases. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph. The giant human-like robot bears a striking resemblance to the military robots starring in the movie'Avatar' and is claimed as a world first by its creators from a South Korean robotic company Waseda University's saxophonist robot WAS-5, developed by professor Atsuo Takanishi and Kaptain Rock playing one string light saber guitar perform jam session A man looks at an exhibit entitled'Mimus' a giant industrial robot which has been reprogrammed to interact with humans during a photocall at the new Design Museum in South Kensington, London Electrification Guru Dr. Wolfgang Ziebart talks about the electric Jaguar I-PACE concept SUV before it was unveiled before the Los Angeles Auto Show in Los Angeles, California, U.S The Jaguar I-PACE Concept car is the start of a new era for Jaguar.

Amazon employs 45,000 robots, but they all have something missing: hands. Squat wheeled machines carry boxes around in more than 20 of the company's cavernous fulfillment centers across the globe. But it falls exclusively to humans to do things like pulling items from shelves or placing them into those brown boxes that bring garbage bags and pens and books to our homes. Robots able to help with so-called picking tasks would boost Amazon's efficiency--and make it much less reliant on human workers. It's why the company has invited a motley crew of mechanical arms, grippers, suction cups--and their human handlers--to Nagoya, Japan, this week to show off their manipulation skills.

Lenovo is betting big on smart devices' ability to catapult the company into a future IT market dominated by artificial intelligence, and the company is giving a peek at the concept products it says will get it there. Lenovo CTO Yong Rui, in a blog post published as the company's Tech World conference kicked off in Shanghai, China, this week, said the company is investing heavily in AI, including spending on personne, and an Artificial Intelligence Lab staffed by more than 100 researchers around the world. Rui writes that in order to enable AI to "change how we live and work and how our societies operate," Lenovo must get algorithms, big data and computing power right. Lenovo this week is showing off a handful of concept products intended to show that the company has done just that.

OSAKA – Nintendo Co. said Wednesday it posted a group net profit of ¥21.26 billion ($190 million) for the three-month period that ended in June, a turnaround from a ¥24.53 billion loss a year earlier, on the back of solid sales of its Switch game console and games. The Kyoto-based game giant booked a consolidated operating profit of ¥16.21 billion, up from last year's ¥5.13 billion loss, on revenue of ¥154.07 billion, up nearly 2.5-fold. The results for the first quarter of the 2017 business year indicate Nintendo is poised for a comeback after several years of weak earnings due to the poor performance of the Switch's predecessor, the Wii U. Nintendo maintained its earlier net profit forecast of ¥45 billion for the 2017 business year, down 56.1 percent from the previous year when it sold off Major League Baseball team the Seattle Mariners. It also maintained its revenue outlook, projecting a 53.3 percent jump to ¥750 billion. The company said it shipped 1.97 million Switch consoles in the April-June quarter and kept unchanged its full-year estimate of 10 million consoles.

Police are teaming up with technology companies to develop artificial intelligence which they say will help them identify and apprehend suspects before crimes are even committed, according to The Financial Times. Facial recognition study says it can identify criminals from looks alone https://t.co/MqzPuBSJtC "If we use our smart systems and smart facilities well, we can know beforehand...who might be a terrorist, who might do something bad," Li Meng, China's vice minister of science and technology, said. The Guangzhou-based facial recognition company Cloud Walk created a system that tracks data on people's movements and behavior to assess their chances of committing a crime. "For example, someone who buys a knife won't raise suspicion," a company spokesperson explained to Lei Feng Network.

Consumer robot maker iRobot, maker of the Roomba robot vacuum cleaner, is to acquire its largest European distributor, Robopolis, in a cash deal worth $141 million. The company said it's signed a definitive agreement to acquire the privately-held, French company, which is based in Lyon, with the acquisition expected to close in October 2017. Its aim is to further enhance its distribution network, following the November 2016 acquisition of SODC, its distributor in Japan. Better serving European consumers and working to drive continued growth in Western Europe -- "through a consistent approach to all market activities including sales, marketing, branding, channel relationships and customer service" -- is the rational for the Robopolis acquisition, it said. "At this stage in the Western European market evolution, and the growth opportunity it presents, we feel a more direct go-to-market strategy is necessary to continue driving adoption of robots for the home," said Colin Angle, chairman and CEO of iRobot, in a statement.

The plug-in – loved and hated across the world – won't actually be put out of its misery until 2020. But the company that makes it has signalled it will come to an end. Flash was once the technology powering the many games and videos of the early internet. As an animation platform it allowed for the creation of clickable games and videos on places like YouTube, and in so doing helped create the web as we know it today. The I.F.O. is fuelled by eight electric engines, which is able to push the flying object to an estimated top speed of about 120mph.

The Facebook chief executive and social media icon is frequently lauded for his critical thinking and global vision, qualities that have helped him maintain his reign atop one of the world's most successful companies. Yet on Tuesday, Tesla chief executive and fellow billionaire Elon Musk said in a tweet that Zuckerberg's understanding of the threat posted by artificial intelligence "is limited." Musk's tweet was a response to a Facebook live broadcast that Zuckerberg did during a backyard grilling session Sunday in which he was asked about Musk's strident warnings surrounding AI. Musk wrote, "I've talked to Mark about this. His understanding of the subject is limited."

Facebook may launch its own smart-home gadget to get you messaging more friends and looking at more photos. DigiTimes reports from Taiwan that Facebook is building a 15-inch touch-screen smart speaker. Citing sources from the "upstream supply chain," Chinese iPhone manufacturer Pegatron is building the device for a Q1 2018 launch, with a small pilot run having already been produced. It's said to have been designed by Facebook's secretive new hardware lab Building 8, using an LG in-cell touch screen with a magnesium-aluminum-alloy chassis. While no further details are known about the speaker's functionality, it could potentially extend Facebook's feed of photos and videos, plus its dominant messaging platform, into the bedroom, living room or kitchen.

The baby food industry is realizing the importance of artificial intelligence (AI), to manage quality control. Japanese food producer Kewpie Corp. says that it is using Google's TensorFlow artificial intelligence, to quickly inspect ingredients that go into baby food products. This includes diced potatoes it uses in baby food, an ingredient that comes under most scrutiny in terms of safety since quality can greatly vary across batches of production and packaging. Kewpie tied up with analytics firm BrainPad Inc. to train machine learning algorithms to recognize the ingredients. The TensorFlow system was "educated" to identify the clean and healthy ingredients, by making it recognize as many as 18,000 photos of potatoes, which included acceptable and useable, as well as defective and unusable potatoes.