In a preprint research paper published this week, Nvidia researchers propose an approach for human-to-robot handovers in which the robot meets the human halfway, classifies the human’s grasp, and plans a trajectory to take the object from the human’s hand. They claim it results in more fluent handovers compared with baselines, and they say it […]
Amazon’s AI predicts context from search queries
Amazon is using AI and machine learning to predict context from customers’ queries. In a preprint paper accepted to the ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval scheduled to take place this month, Amazon researchers describe a system that predicts activities like “running” from queries like “Adidas men’s pants.” It could help to […]
Facebook AI Researchers Found A Way To Give Quest More GPU Power
Facebook Researchers seem to have figured out a way to use machine learning to essentially give Oculus Quest apps 67% more GPU power to work with. However, Facebook informs us this is “purely research” (for now). The Oculus Quest is a standalone headset, which means the computing hardware is inside the device itself. Because of […]
Epic is Removing Fortnite’s Aim Assist
Players who rely on Aim Assist in Fortnite are in trouble. Fortnite is one of those things that has become so entrenched in society and the mainstream that it feels as if it has more haters than lovers. Whether that’s true or not, it remains one of the most popular games on the planet right now. […]
AI, AI, Captain! How the Mayflower Autonomous Ship will cross the Atlantic
While self-driving cars have hogged the headlines for the past few years, other forms of autonomous transport are starting to heat up. This month, IBM and Promare — a U.K.-based marine research and exploration charity — will trial a prototype of an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered maritime navigation system ahead of a September 16th venture to send […]