AI & RoboticsNews

H1 Insights raises $12.9 million for AI that helps companies find health care professionals

April 23, 2020
H1 Insights, a startup developing a platform that connects health care and life science professionals and companies, today announced that it raised $12.9 million. With the equity funding, the company plans to further develop its products, which tap AI and machine learning to identify thought-leading doctors in a given disease area. H1’s service was already lucrative — year-over-year revenue…
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Google’s AI teaches robots to grasp occluded objects and adapt to new situations

April 23, 2020
In a pair of papers published on the preprint server Arxiv.org this week, Google and University of California, Berkeley researchers describe new AI and machine learning techniques that enable robots to adapt to never-before-seen tasks and grasp occluded objects. The first study details X-Ray, an algorithm that when deployed on a robot can search through heaps of objects to grasp a target object…
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Maccabi to deploy AI that identifies patients at risk of developing COVID-19 complications

April 23, 2020
An HMO developing a platform for the discovery of clinical insights from medial information, Israel’s Maccabi Healthcare Services, plans to deploy an AI system that can identify people at risk of developing COVID-19 complications. The work is being done in partnership with the Kahn-Sagol-Maccabi Research and Innovation Institute and Medial EarlySign and looks at factors like preexisting…
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Motorola Edge Plus leak confirms $1,000 price and specs ahead of release date

April 22, 2020
Motorola is hosting an online event tomorrow, April 22nd, at 12PM ET, and it appears the company will be announcing a new flagship called the Edge Plus at the event, according to a now-pulled blog post spotted by Droid Life. The information Droid Life grabbed from the post seemingly confirms many of the rumored specs about the phone. The Edge Plus, which reportedly costs $1,000, will apparently…
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