AI & Robotics

Pasadena, California-based Miso Robotics is pursuing an unconventional approach to fundraising. The robotics company announced that instead of securing a tranche from institutional investors, as is typical for young startups, it will kick off an equity crowdfunding round targeting $30 million, in collaboration with Circle’s SeedInvest and Wavemaker Labs. Reservations open this morning. For the…

Whenever an Adobe event offers Sneaks — quick previews of what its researchers are working on — there’s a caveat that the “projects” might not wind up in shipping products. But they often do, and if that happens with the company’s just-revealed collection of intriguing features, Adobe users can look forward to a lot of AI assistance in the foreseeable future, including tools for…

AI holds enormous promise for the public sector — at least theoretically. But in practice, integrating AI components into public sector apps is limited by the fragility of those components and by mismatches among them. For example, if a machine learning model is trained on data that’s different from data in an operational environment, the component’s performance will be dramatically…

Automatic speech recognition, or ASR, is a foundational part of not only assistants like Apple’s Siri, but dictation software such as Nuance’s Dragon and customer support platforms like Google’s Contact Center AI. It’s the thing that enables machines to parse utterances for key phrases and words and that allows them to distinguish people by their intonations and pitches. Perhaps it goes…