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Google Maps is improving travel ETAs with DeepMind AI

September 3, 2020
Google Maps helps users navigate over one billion kilometers in more than 200 countries and territories daily, and Google says its estimated time of arrival (ETA) predictions have been consistently accurate for over 97 percent of trips. That’s not good enough for Google, though, so the company partnered with DeepMind to use machine learning to make its ETAs even more accurate. Before partnering…
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Storelift launches autonomous convenience stores using AI and computer vision

September 3, 2020
As physical retail struggles amid the global pandemic, storeowners are rapidly trying to adapt to new realities that also include growing competition from Amazon. But a French startup called Storelift believes it can create a new convenience store concept that leans on many of the same AI and computer vision tools used in Amazon Go stores to reinvent the shopping and checkout experience. This…
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Google expands AI-powered flood alerts to all of India

September 1, 2020
In late 2018, in collaboration with the Central Water Commission of India, Israel Institute of Technology, and Bar-Ilan University, Google piloted a flood-predicting model in portions of Patna, India as a part of its Flood Forecasting Initiative. The company and its partners claimed the model could predict riverine floods — that is, floods from overrun riverbanks — with 75% accuracy during…
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Sarcos Robotics raises $40 million to develop an exoskeleton for industrial applications

September 1, 2020
Sarcos Robotics, a startup developing robots for industrial and defense applications, today nabbed $40 million in equity financing, bringing its total venture capital raised to nearly $100 million. The company plans to use the capital to commercialize its first full-body, self-powered product — the Guardian XO — ahead of an anticipated 2021 ship date. According to a 2020 Grand View Research…
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