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Clearview AI, a facial recognition firm, has carried out almost one million searches for US police. The technology, which has raised concerns over privacy breaches, allows law enforcement officials to upload a suspect’s photo and compare it to the billions of images in the company’s database. In an interview with the BBC, Clearview AI CEO Hoan Ton-That stated that the company had scraped 30 billion images from sites like Facebook without user consent.

USC Viterbi computer science researchers have developed a system to teach robots how to predict human preferences in assembly tasks. The system, which was a finalist for the best paper award at the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), could help robots become more collaborative helpers in manufacturing and everyday life.

Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft and philanthropist, shared his excitement about the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) in a blog. Gates described witnessing two technological advancements that struck him as revolutionary during his lifetime. The first was the graphical user interface, which he brainstormed with Microsoft’s Charles Simonyi, and the second was OpenAI’s GPT model that aced an Advanced Placement biology exam.

Controlling a robot with your mind may sound like something straight out of a science fiction movie, but recent research published in ACS Applied Nano Materials has taken a significant step toward making it a reality. The study describes a unique, 3D-patterned structure that doesn’t require sticky conductive gels and can measure the brain’s electrical activity, even amidst hair and the bumps and curves of the head.

Two researchers from Georgia Tech are studying the trust-repair strategies that robots can use when they deceive humans. Kantwon Rogers, a Ph.D. student, and Reiden Webber, an undergraduate in computer science, are researching robot deception in a driving simulation to explore the effectiveness of apologies to repair trust after robots lie.

ResearchAndMarkets.com has recently released a report titled “Global Robotic Welding Market 2022-2028”, which states that the global market for robotic welding is expected to grow at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 7.35% in the evaluated phase of 2022-2028. The report notes that the key driver for this growth is the increased preference for robots for welding due to their high efficiency.

According to a recent report by ResearchAndMarkets.com, the global robot end effector market is expected to see significant growth in the coming years. The market is expected to increase from USD 2.3 billion in 2023 to USD 4.3 billion by 2028, registering a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 13.5%.

Hai Robotics, provider of intelligent automated warehousing solutions, has won the MHI Innovation Award for Best Innovation of an Existing Product for their A42T Autonomous Case-handling Robot (ACR). This award was announced at ProMat 2023, held in Chicago.

Who do children prefer to learn from? Previous research has shown that even infants can identify the best informant. But would preschoolers prefer learning from a competent robot over an incompetent human? According to a new paper by Concordia researchers published in the Journal of Cognition and Development, the answer largely depends on age.

A team of experts at The University of Manchester has been awarded major funding to help design smarter robots that will have more meaningfully dialogue with humans after developing improved insight into our inner feelings through language. The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded Professor Angelo Cangelosi, co-director of the Manchester Centre for Robotics and AI, a total of €2.5million as part of the eTALK project.