Long-term monitoring and exploration of extreme environments, such as underwater storage facilities, is costly, labor-intensive, and hazardous. Automating this process with low-cost, collaborative robots can greatly improve efficiency. These robots capture images from different positions, which must be processed simultaneously to create a spatio-temporal model of the facility. In this paper, we propose a novel approach that integrates data simulation, a multi-modal deep learning network for coordinate prediction, and image reassembly to address the challenges posed by environmental disturbances causing drift and rotation in the robots' positions and orientations. Our approach enhances the precision of alignment in noisy environments by integrating visual information from snapshots, global positional context from masks, and noisy coordinates. We validate our method through extensive experiments using synthetic data that simulate real-world robotic operations in underwater settings. The results demonstrate very high coordinate prediction accuracy and plausible image assembly, indicating the real-world applicability of our approach. The assembled images provide clear and coherent views of the underwater environment for effective monitoring and inspection, showcasing the potential for broader use in extreme settings, further contributing to improved safety, efficiency, and cost reduction in hazardous field monitoring. Code is available on https://github.com/ChrisChen1023/Micro-Robot-Swarm.

New robots that think and act for themselves are set to be deployed to some of the most hazardous places on Earth and outer space. As well as being sent across the universe, the AI-powered machines will be deployed in nuclear fusion power, the offshore energy sector and agriculture closer to home. The University of Manchester team developing them say the super machines will "need to act independently" of humans to carry out highly complex tasks in danger zones. The team says the technology, which they call "hot robotics", will help the United Kingdom maintain its competitive advantage in automation technologies. They also hope robots will become more autonomous so they can decommission old nuclear power stations more cheaply, quickly and safely than they can do at present.

Experts in the United Kingdom are designing AI-powered robots to work in some of the most hazardous places on Earth and outer space. University of Manchester researchers have been advising government and energy sector leaders on the safe development of AI robots being used in extreme environments. The University of Manchester said "hot robotic" systems were originally designed to work in radioactive environments in decommissioned nuclear reactors, but found a new use in the fields of nuclear fusion power, agriculture, the energy sector, and even space exploration. The university said in a statement: "As part of an ambitious R&D program to maintain UK leadership in robotic technologies, Manchester experts are applying AI technologies to'hot robotics' as they will increasingly need to act independently of human operators as they enter a range of danger zones to carry out highly complex tasks. "An important challenge in the nuclear industry is to improve robot autonomy so that the technology can be used to deliver safer, faster and cheaper decommissioning of legacy power stations and other radioactive facilities at sites such as Sellafield and Dounreay.

What are the perilous spiritual implications of artificial intelligence, bioengineering, facial recognition, and other hi-tech applications we're accepting into our daily world with little concern? What does the Bible say about it all? Bible Gateway interviewed John C. Lennox (@ProfJohnLennox) about his book, 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity (Zondervan, 2020). What is the title of this book intended to elicit in readers? Dr. John C. Lennox: It's intended to recall 1984, the dystopian novel by George Orwell who gave to the English language the idea of Big Brother.

Where did we come from and where will we go are some of the most pertinent questions of the day? The effects that the increased incorporation of AI has in our lives, the security of our homes, our political and personal freedoms, and the future of our entire species is still very uncertain. In 2084, the scientist and philosopher John Lennox introduces the readers to an ocean of ideas that revolve around the key developments in technological advancements, bioengineering, and specifically artificial intelligence. In this book, the readers will explore the current possibilities through AI, its advantages and disadvantages, the facts and the fiction, as well as the potential future implications. John Lennox is a talented professor of mathematics at Oxford University who often ventures into the intersection of religion, humanity, and technology.

Recently, I've been discussing Professor John Lennox's book entitled 2084, which is all about the development and production of artificial intelligence. As an Atheist, I clearly have many differences with his Christian perspective. Wherever you sit with regard to the God question, Christianity, or the ethical concerns that are raised with the advancement of AI, you have to give varying perspectives their due. Today, I wanted to spend a moment chatting about how artificial intelligence is impacting the advertising world and the serious ethical questions that are raised by that. So let's begin with a couple of points from that book Professor Lennox wrote.

So if you've been following my content, you know I've been writing a lot about artificial intelligence. I've shown some of the positive and negative developments in this area, and how we should harness this immensely powerful technology for the commonwealth of man; and not exploit its use for evil, the way we historically have with nuclear weaponry. There are many thinkers and innovators who have been advocating for this. In line with that, today's piece is all about the ethical principles that pundits feel should be programmed into AI, and developed with a clear view in mind moving forward. I've loosely been basing these artificial intelligence articles around an incredible book entitled 2084 written by Professor John Lennox.

A professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, doubling as a philosopher of science and religion, John Lennox has some pretty unique insights to put forward when it comes to the future of artificial intelligence. The title of his new book, ambitiously named 2084: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity, certainly suggests a post-Orwellian vision of dystopia, complete with an algorithmic Big Brother and an army of bio-engineered super-humans. And similar predictions have already been made by other influential academics, too. Yuval Noah Harari, in his bestselling book Homo Deus, for example, anticipates that technological developments will lead to humans enhancing themselves with abilities like eternal life. But far from portraying an Ex-Machina-esque scenario, in which our AI creations would take over the world and fundamentally change human nature, Lennox warns that the dangers of AI are more imminent. "If creating an AI that surpasses humans were to happen, of course it would be a threat," Lennox tells ZDNet. "But there are major dangers long before then, and these dangers are actually happening now. I think it is misleading to tell people about the problems that will come in the future – it's what's happening now that demands an ethical and moral response."

This week, Oxford mathematician John Lennox's new book, 2084, on the problems raised by AI, hit the stands. Lennox asks, "What will the year 2084 hold for you -- for your friends, for your family, and for our society? Are we doomed to the grim dystopia imagined in George Orwell's 1984?" There are good reasons for doubt. First, is it really true that computers can out-think humans?

Fox News Flash top headlines for Oct. 14 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Attacking enemy lines as a heavily up-gunned armored robot, firing lasers, knocking enemy drones out of the air with "elevating" weapons, controlling air and ground drones as networked "nodes" in war and using AI to organize long-range targeting data -- are all desired attributes for the Army's new infantry vehicle - the Optionally Manned Fighting Vehicle. The new vehicle, slated to ultimately replace the decades-old Bradley, will achieve operational combat status as soon as 2026 -- and, according to Army documents, pave the way forward into a new era of major, high-powered, mechanized warfare. As it enters a new prototyping and test phase for the vehicle, the Army is further refining its ambitious and high-standard requirements.