Griffith University researchers have developed an AI video surveillance system to detect social distancing breaches in an airport without compromising privacy. By keeping image processing gated to a local network of cameras, the team bypassed the traditional need to store sensitive data on a central system. Professor Dian Tjondronegoro from Griffith Business School says data privacy is one of the biggest concerns with this technology because the system has to constantly observe people's activities to be effective. "These adjustments are added to the central decision-making model to improve accuracy." Published in Information, Technology & People, the case study was completed at Gold Coast Airport which, pre-COVID-19 had 6.5 million passengers annually with 17,000 passengers on-site daily.

While robotic surgery already exists, the rapid rise of artificial intelligence advancing the medical industry means we're only going to see more of it. And leading experts say it's not as far off as we might think. Professor Dian Tjondronegoro, of Southern Cross University, has listed the top five ways we will see robots in medicine in the next decade. Virtual doctors could help us through our smartwatches, with their advice verified by a human doctor, alerting us to potential emergencies before they happen, saving the health system millions. And Prof Tjondronegoro said because the doctor-to-patient ratio was continually decreasing globally, AI was going to transform the future of healthcare.