AI & Robotics

Commuting is the worst part of driving. It’s a stress-inducing piece of hell that many of us endure on a daily basis. Audi aims to eliminate that stress with a tiny self-driving car that takes you on a virtual journey while you’re sitting in gridlock. The AI:Me (pronounced Amy) is the automaker’s “empathetic mobility partner.” With level-4 abilities, the…

Presented by Hypergiant Every major company and government deploying AI at scale has publicly declared some form of statement on ethics in AI and articulated a set of guiding principles.  In fact, Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched a project to catalog all of these statements. While statements of ethics in AI are public, how ethics in AI is being implemented is…

In 2018, the Lioness Generation 1 vibrator promised to improve users’ orgasms through detailed data collection. Two years later, Lioness has unveiled the Generation 2, a new vibrator that implements more than 30,000 climactic data points to deliver AI-driven guidance on your own experience. The Generation 2 doesn’t only rely on big data to make suggestions — like the original…

Nuheara likes to call itself the “smart-hearing” company, and today it’s unveiling its most advanced hearing buds to date. The IQbuds2 Max use active noise cancellation and neural network-based personalization to fit the wearer’s “soundscape.” Consumers can preorder here from today. The company announced the new “hearable” earbuds at a press event for CES 2020, the big tech trade…