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Read More »Sci-Fi Short Film “Hard Reset" | DUST
The dawn of artificially intelligent androids is upon us, and one man must choose between synthetic freedom and the future of humankind. “Hard Reset” by Deepak Chetty Subscribe to the DUST Newsletter: https://bit.ly/signal_newsletter #DUST #scifi #shortfilm More About Hard Reset: Hard Reset recently won the Advanced Imaging Society Lumiere Award …
Read More »Outside the Wire | Official Trailer | Netflix
Check out the NEW official trailer for Outside the Wire! When disgraced drone pilot, Lt. Harp (Damson Idris) is sent into a deadly militarized zone after disobeying orders, he finds himself working for Capt. Leo (Anthony Mackie), an android officer tasked with locating a doomsday device before insurgents do. Outside …
Read More »Sunspring | A Sci-Fi Short Film Starring Thomas Middleditch
In the wake of Google’s AI Go victory, filmmaker Oscar Sharp turned to his technologist collaborator Ross Goodwin to build a machine that could write screenplays. They created “Jetson” and fueled him with hundreds of sci-fi TV and movie scripts. Building a team including Thomas Middleditch, star of HBO’s Silicon …
Read More »Outside the Wire | Official Teaser Trailer | Netflix
Set in the future, Harp (Damson Idris), a drone pilot, is sent into a deadly militarized zone where he finds himself working for Leo (Anthony Mackie), an android officer, tasked to locate a doomsday device before the insurgents do. Outside the Wire is directed by Mikael Håfström. SUBSCRIBE: http://bit.ly/29qBUt7 About …
Read More »AI Robot Artist Adapts Style According to How Many Brushstrokes It Is Allowed to Make | Mashable
Created by a team of researchers from IBM Japan, the University of Tokyo, and Yamaha Motors, this robot is the latest attempt to extend human creativity to machines. Instead of simply replicating images or photographs, this robot is given a concept that it then materializes with its paintbrush. The researchers …
Read More »Creepy Crawling Robot Has a Skeleton Made From Tree Branches
Who said robots have to be artificially fabricated from scratch? A team of researchers in Japan, led by University of Tokyo’s Azumi Maekawa, collected tree branches and used them as the skeleton of this crawling creature. The robot learned how to move using Deep Reinforcement Learning in simulation and it …
Read More »Scrubbing Dishes Sucks But This Robot Will Do It For Us
Dishcraft is on a mission to automate dishrooms in commercial kitchens. Their robot solution uses AI and computer vision to check for dirt, rinse, and scrub dishes, and it’s already comparable to human employees. More than a hundred years after Josephine Cochrane invented the first dishwasher, Linda Pouliot, Dishcraft’s CEO, …
Read More »This Drone Can Dodge Anything You Throw at It
Researchers at the University of Maryland and the University of Zurich equipped a drone with event cameras and a sonar system to make it capable of detecting and dodging objects thrown at it. This technology could help drones and birds safely co-exist in the sky and it could also prove …
Read More »Machine Learning Could Make Prosthetics Cheaper
Researchers in Japan hope that a new 3D printed myoelectric prosthetic system will reduce the cost of currently available prosthetics. Their system uses machine learning that needs to be trained to distinguish the motions of each individual finger to learn how to perform more complex gestures, where multiple fingers move …
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