AI & RoboticsNews

OnSiteIQ raises $4.5 million to improve construction safety using AI and 360-degree imagery

February 18, 2020
OnSiteIQ today announced that it has raised a $4.5 million series A round to grow its AI-powered safety analysis of 360-degree imagery from construction sites. In addition to supplying computer vision for risk assessment reports, the company’s platform is made to stitch together imagery so construction site managers can examine progress, skimming through footage for a guided tour like Google…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

Join the innovators in enterprise AI at Transform 2020

February 18, 2020
The AI event of the year for business leaders, Transform 2020 doubles down on results-driven content that helps executives at the senior director level and above maintain their competitive edge. Expect two days of the most transformative trends in conversational AI, computer…
AI & RoboticsNews

Israel risks falling behind in AI despite growth

February 17, 2020
Habana Labs. Mobileye. Hailo. Wix. There are more than 1,150 AI-focused startups in Israel, and that number is growing. Even so, some people within the government are concerned that the nation risks falling behind because it lacks a unified AI policy. AI policy refers to national strategies like the U.S.’s American AI Initiative and Canada’s Pan-Canadian Artificial Intelligence Strategy, which…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

ASU researchers debut ViWi-BT, an AI/computer vision mmWave beam guide

February 14, 2020
The cellular industry’s shift from long-distance radio signals to short-distance millimeter waves is one of the 5G era’s biggest changes, expected to continue with submillimeter waves over the next decade. To more precisely direct millimeter wave and future terahertz-frequency signals toward user devices, Arizona State University researchers have developed ViWi-BT, a vision-wireless framework…
Read more
AI & RoboticsNews

How AI is stopping the next great flu before it starts

February 14, 2020
Immune systems across the globe have been working overtime this winter as a devastating flu season has taken hold. More than 180,000 Americans have been hospitalized and 10,000 more have died in recent months, according to the CDC, while the coronavirus (now officially designated COVID-19) has spread across the globe at an alarming rate. Fears of a growing worldwide flu outbreak have even prompted…
Read more