In industrial applications, security and trust in the system are requirements for widespread adoption. Blockchain technologies have emerged as a potential solution to address identity management and secure data aggregation and control. However, the vast majority of works to date utilize Ethereum and smart contracts that are not scalable or well suited for industrial applications. This paper presents what is, to the best of our knowledge, the first integration of ROS 2 with the Hyperledger Fabric blockchain. With a framework that leverages Fabric smart contracts and ROS 2 through a Go application, we delve into the potential of using blockchain for controlling robots, and gathering and processing their data. We demonstrate the applicability of the proposed framework to an inventory management use-case where different robots are used to detect objects of interest in a given area. Designed to meet the requirements of distributed robotic systems, we show that the performance of the robots is not impacted significantly by the blockchain layer. At the same time, we provide examples for developing other applications that integrate Fabric smart contracts with ROS 2. Our results pave the way for further adoption of blockchain technologies in autonomous robotic systems for building trustable data sharing.

What is the first thing that brought your attention to AI-based blockchain projects? Many enterprises are eager to leverage the capabilities of top AI-blockchain projects. The primary factor driving enterprises towards AI blockchain projects is the interesting proposition of combining the two new technologies. AI or artificial intelligence has emerged as one of the promising technological interventions in recent times. As a matter of fact, it is poised to transform the way machines interact with us.

Workday co-founder and CEO Aneel Bhusri has been a success. He started the human resources technology company in 2005 and has grown it to a stock market valuation over $40 billion. His own net worth is valued by Forbes in the billions. He sees technology playing a big role in the success of all workers in the future. "Blockchain is a technology looking for a problem to solve. We found one to solve, which is credentials," Bhusri told the anchors of CNBC's "Squawk Box" from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday.

Besides "fake news", there's been another term which has caused many debates around it: deepfake. These seemingly realistic videos that are, in fact, manipulated have become more problematic lately, casting a shadow on the trust people have in media. Can blockchain and artificial intelligence (AI) be used to combat deepfake, to restore the public confidence back into the system? What is "deepfake", a term which combines'deep learning' and'fake'? According to Wikipedia, it's a technique for human image synthesis based on AI.

Blockchain has always seemed to me like a solution looking for a problem, which isn't a criticism. The laser, the transistor, and the integrated circuit all lingered, underutilized, until either the technology evolved, a complementary technology matured, and/or some clever entrepreneur enabled their wide and disruptive adoption. Or take barcodes, which were first deployed with middling success to track train cars, and only took on the eponymous universality of "UPC codes" when cash registers became more than mechanical contraptions. Currencies such as Bitcoin may well be only the first iteration of a blockchain-powered technology, but one that could disappear in a puff of smoke and a pool of investor tears if the speculative bubble pops. However, the notion of a decentralized, public ledger of consensus-driven facts about the world--which is what a blockchain fundamentally is--has a utility well beyond wild-eyed, crypto-anarchist dreams.

Neurensic, an artificial intelligence (AI) technology startup focused on software-as-a-service solutions for the financial services industry, has announced the formation of a new Innovation Lab, which will focus on applying its big data aggregation and AI capabilities to nascent technologies such as blockchain. "Neurensic's ultimate goal is to bring together all business processes currently completed post-trade into a single vendor platform that is able to function real-time and at-trade, opening new horizons for self-regulating markets and ultimately redefining all financial transactions. I have faith that our new Innovation Lab will accelerate this process", said said David Widerhorn, Chief Executive Officer. This lab will be led by Neurensic co-founder Zachary Watts, who is being named as Chief Innovation Officer. "Bringing a business intelligence layer to distributed ledger solutions is critical to forming a sustainable path toward adopting these technologies in the long-run," said Watts.