Important Innovations Collection

Astro May Be One of the World's Smartest Dogs Source:  Florida Atlantic University New Invention from Florida Atlantic University Roboticists Astro  is a deep learning and artificial intelligence powered, quadruped robodog created by a team of roboticists and other experts at Florida Atlantic University.  Like your dog, it learns by trial and error.  It has a deep neural network that enables it to learn and perform tricks.  Astro's 3D printed head is designed to resemble a Doberman and has a computerized brain.  The team calls it "a puppy in training" but already it can sit, stand and lie down.  The robot can see and hear. Loaded with Technology Astro contains cameras, high tech radar sensors, radar imaging and a directional microphone.  Most importantly, it has four teraflops of processing power or the capacity for 4 trillion computations per second with its Nvidia Jetson TX2 graphics processing units.  All of this technology all...

Artificial Intelligence Goes From Looking at Pizza Photos to Perfect Pizza Cooking with AI MIT's prestigious Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) and the Qatar Computer Research Institute have invented an AI model that takes a series of instructions and generates a finished product - a pizza photo with ingredients spot on.  The AI is called PizzaGAN and the team has trained it to understand pizzas.  By looking at a pizza photo, it can determine the types and the order in which the ingredients were placed. They started with this breakthrough AI innovation at a basic level - understanding a pizza. New Neural Network This new neural network is revolutionary and has many applications.  It's not just about pizzas.  The network is a "generative adversarial network" that creates images of pizzas before and after it's been cooked.  The AI looks at an image, determines the type and distributions of ingredients and figures out the correct way...