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Insider Brief Robbyant, the embodied AI unit within Ant Group, has open-sourced LingBot-Map, a streaming 3D reconstruction model designed to enable robots and other systems such as autonomous vehicles and AR devices to map and understand their surroundings in real time using a standard RGB camera. According to Ant Group, unlike traditional approaches that process […]
Read full articleInsider Brief Ouster unveiled a new generation of digital lidar sensors aimed at robotics, autonomous vehicles and industrial AI systems, introducing what the company says is the world’s first native color lidar platform. The company announced its Rev8 family of OS lidar sensors, powered by a new L4 Ouster Silicon architecture designed to improve range, […]
A Baidu Apollo Go robotaxi in Wuhan, China. | Image: Bloomberg via Getty Images China has suspended new licenses for autonomous vehicles, Bloomberg reports, citing unnamed people familiar with the matter. The move comes after dozens of robotaxis operated by Chinese tech giant Baidu ground to a halt in traffic last month in Wuhan, creating chaos. The restrictions will prevent companies from adding new driverless cars to their fleets, expanding into new cities, or starting new test projects. It is unclear when officials will start issuing new licenses again. Bloomberg said the Wuhan incident alarmed authorities in Beijing, prompting regulators to urge local governments to review the sector to prevent similar episodes. … Read the full story at The Verge.
We visited Scout AI's training ground where it's working on AI agents that give individual soldiers control of fleets of autonomous vehicles.
In this interview series, we’re meeting some of the AAAI/SIGAI Doctoral Consortium participants to find out more about their research. We sat down with Abdelrahman Sayed Sayed to chat about his work on formal verification applied to autonomous vehicles. Could you tell us a bit about where you’re studying and the broad topic of your […]
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang often shares the story of hand-delivering an AI supercomputer to OpenAI in 2016, back before it was the hotshot company it’s become in recent years. A key ingredient in the box was Nvidia’s CUDA toolkit, which helped turn OpenAI’s experiments into a foundation for modern AI applications. Huang credits the software platform as being the foundation for Nvidia’s success in AI and high-performance computing. At 20 years old, CUDA is still going. It’s driving Nvidia’s re-imagination of hardware in new areas that range from quantum computing to robotics, modern machinery and even autonomous vehicles. Put simply, the CUDA toolkit includes programming tools, a compiler stack and libraries and effectively unlocks the computing capacity of GPUs. For nearly two decades, CUDA architect Stephen Jones has had a front-row seat to the toolkit’s evolution and he’s continuing the work of engineers such as the late John Nickolls, who championed CUDA’s development. Computerworld sa
Insider Brief Researchers at Tokyo University of Science have developed a vision-based method that allows robots to reliably grasp transparent and reflective objects, addressing a key limitation in robotic manipulation. The work, supported by JSPS KAKENHI and JKA, introduces HEAPGrasp, a system that replaces traditional depth sensing with RGB image-based perception to improve object detection […]
