Wimbledon bosses have defended the use of AI line judges after Jack Draper said the technology was not "100% accurate". The British No 1 said it was "a shame" human line judges were ousted after crashing out in the second round to the 36-year-old former finalist Marin Cilic. Draper, 23, grew frustrated with the AI-enhanced Hawk-Eye technology during Thursday's match, holding his arms out in disbelief after one of his opponent's serves was not called out in the fourth set. "I don't think it's 100% accurate in all honesty," he said in his post-match press conference. "A couple of the ones today, it showed a mark on the court. There's no way the chalk would have showed that. I guess it cannot be 100% accurate – it's millimetres."

Historically, bipedal robots have been reserved for research labs. Agility Robotics is starting to change that tune with Digit, a bipedal robot first commercialized in early 2020. The company recently closed a $150 million Series B round to help scale its operation. Agility is targeting real-world applications such as moving totes and packages and unloading trailers at warehouses. During RoboBusiness, which runs Oct. 19-20 in Santa Clara, Calif., Agility Robotics co-founders Jonathan Hurst and Damion Shelton will discuss how they're developing Digit to perform useful tasks.

The country singer invited Wyatt McKee, an avid fan, to sing a duet with him during his concert last month as he continues to wait for a new heart. A 6-year-old awaiting a heart transplant had his dreams fulfilled last month when Blake Shelton invited him on stage to sing a duet during his concert. The avid fan and Shelton's miniature duet partner, Wyatt McKee, and his mother Harley McKee, joined "Fox & Friends Weekend" to recount the emotional rendition of one of Shelton's top hits, "God's Country." "I can't even explain how it made me feel," Harley explained Sunday. "I don't think he quite grasped how big it was. He just had a blast, and that's what he wanted to do. He always tells us he wants Blake Shelton's phone number, so he would ask Siri all the time."

In February, Zillow appeared so confident in its ability to use artificial intelligence to estimate the value of homes that it announced a new option: for certain homes, its so-called "Zestimate" would also represent an initial cash offer from the company to purchase the property. The move, touted by a company exec at the time as "an exciting advancement," was intended to streamline the process for homeowners considering selling to Zillow as part of its home-flipping business. Zillow promoted this option as a way to make it convenient to sell a home while minimizing interactions with others during the pandemic. Just eight months later, however, the company is shutting down that business, Zillow Offers, entirely. The decision, announced last week, marks a stunning defeat for Zillow.

In the past, hiring decisions were made by people. Today, some key decisions that lead to whether someone gets a job or not are made by algorithms. The use of AI-based job interviews has increased since the pandemic. As demand increases, so too do questions about whether these algorithms make fair and unbiased hiring decisions, or find the most qualified applicant. In this second episode of a four-part series on AI in hiring, we meet some of the big players making this technology including the CEOs of HireVue and myInterview--and we test some of these tools ourselves. This miniseries on hiring was reported by Hilke Schellmann and produced by Jennifer Strong, Emma Cillekens, Karen Hao and Anthony Green with special thanks to James Wall. Jennifer: Work… is a big part of our lives. It's how most of us pay our bills, feed our families… and put a roof over our heads. Michelle Rogers: "A permanent job would mean stability. You need something to keep you going and to keep you fresh." Dora Lespier: "Like being able to take my daughter being able to get whatever she needs. Henry Claypool: "You know, it's, it's a big part of my identity. It's what I do a lot.

As the pandemic wears on, humanoid robots that can perform general tasks could become increasingly important. They can move heavy objects in warehouses, assist with last-yard deliveries, and potentially be involved in other tasks where low human-to-human contact is preferable for safety reasons. Agility Robotics is one of the companies making these helper robots. The company, which was spun out of the Dynamic Robotics Laboratory at Oregon State University, first got broad attention last year when it began a pilot with Ford, delivering packages in concert with the car maker's autonomous vehicles. When the pandemic hit, Agility Robotics had already turned from a lab project into a real company, and it was reaching a level of project maturity with its bipedal Digit robot. Now the company, fresh off of a $20 million funding round, is accelerating its quest to claim a chunk of the robot-powered material-handling and logistics market with additional partnerships and impending new versions of Digit.

This week, Agility Robotics announced the official release of its two-legged delivery robot called Digit, which it believes could change the'last mile' logistics problems that have long vexed delivery companies. Digit has two robotic legs and two robotic arms and can pick up and hold packages weighing up to 40 pounds. Digit comes equipped with a LIDAR system that will allow it to avoid environmental obstacles and complete basic spatial tasks, such as handing a package its carry to another person (or another Anvil robot). The robot can currently pick up and carry packages autonomously but needs human input to guide it through new or unfamiliar spaces. Last year, Ford announced that it would purchase two units and said it would investigate using Digit to bring packages to customers front steps from self-driving delivery vehicles.

The immediate benefit of RPA is that it can eliminate a lot of repetitive manual labor and free up humans for what they do best. But RPA also helps enterprises create a standardize framework for capturing data about how they execute processes, as well as data about how processes can get delayed or stalled. "If you set up RPA the right way by instrumenting the process, it's possible to gather data to use as the training set for machine learning," said Catalytic chief revenue officer Ted Shelton in an interview at Transform 2019. "RPA is the gateway drug for AI." An RPA implementation not only puts the steps involved in a process into a bot script, it can also set up the framework for understanding how a process is affected by different variables.

The first time you see a strange robot walking down your street, it might be delivering a parcel. That's the future envisioned by Ford in a new research project that explores how robots and self-driving cars could work together to deliver groceries, fast food, and more. The robot in question is called Digit, and it stands just over five feet tall. It has a pair of skeletal legs, two arms ending in shapeless nubs, and a sensor array where its head should be. It's the creation of startup Agility Robotics, which has been developing bipedal robots since 2015 when the company was spun out of research from Oregon State University.

Germany automotive firm Continental is best know for its tires, but at CES 2019 the company is demonstrating something a little different: package delivery by robot dog. As part of its research into the future of mobility, Continental has partnered with robotics company ANYbotics (a spin off from ETH Zurich) to imagine the future of package delivery. In a staged demonstration on the CES show floor, the firm showed how one of ANYbotics' four-legged robots could jump out the back of a self-driving delivery truck and carry a package right up to someone's front door. In the demo, the ANYMal robot could be seen slowly picking its way over debris in the garden before ringing the fake doorbell with one if its limbs. It then tips the package off its back onto the porch and performs a little victory dance as a bonus.