As The Wall Street Journal explains, corporate and university researchers have been developing the AI program in question since 2011. This year, the Japanese National Institute of Informatics program earned a score of 511 out of a possible 950. That’s well above the national average of 416, the institute said, adding that it’d have an…
An overview on most important open source news from OpenSource.com. This week the focus was on: machine learning: Google, Microsoft, H2O.ai are pushing further their solution to go open open source medical robots: Vanderbilt university is going on working on their capsule medical robots open source mapping tools: a fundamental tool for news mapping and…
Johns Hopkins University and its Applied Physics Lab is successfully working to an amazing program to give back the sense of touch to people using prosthetics. The new discoveries are part of Darpa Revolutionary Prostethics programme that is financing R&D departments all over the world, like the italian IIT that also released an advanced bionic…
Thanks to Apple Siri and Google Now, voice-activated personal assistants are in vogue. Abundant bandwidth, affordable computing power, and advancements in machine learning made this technology accessible to consumers. Amazon Echo is one of the first dedicated voice-activated assistants available in the market. Though it started as a smart speaker, it will become the cornerstone…
Home-rental company Airbnb introduced a new open-source project called Aerosolve. The new tool, announced at Airbnb’s 2015 OpenAir developer conference in San Francisco, powers new pricing tips for hosts. Written mostly in the Java and Scala programming languages, Aerosolve can also more intelligently rank and order things like images. “This library is meant to be…
BrainCard is an interesting project aims at bridging neural network community with DIY and Makers. Unfortunately, the project doesn’t seem to take much traction so far. Maybe you can help! The BrainCard™ is an open source hardware platform featuring the worlds only fully functional and field-tested Neuromorphic Chip containing 1024 artificial neurons. It is able to learn…
While lookning for open hardware news I stumbled upon Myopen. Recently launched Myopen project, expanded to include a number of modules: EMG hardware (wired and wireless), EMG software, wireless neural recording hardware, wireless control software, and wired neural recording software. Everything in the project is open source (GPL v3): OPP is seeking to encourage experimentation with myoelectric control…
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