Pieter Werner

How do you turn “dumb” headphones into smart ones? Rutgers engineers have invented a cheap and easy way by transforming headphones into sensors that can be plugged into smartphones, identify their users, monitor their heart rates and perform other services.

There is a lot of buzz around citizen developers. Most of the time it i presented as an easy process. But it is still change, which requires proper change management. In this video Sidney Madison Prescott, VP Global Intelligent Automation initiative at music streaming powerhouse Spotify, shares some of her insights on this phenomenon.

The Zeeuws Museum in Middelburg has a world premiere. From the 18th of March onwards, the museum will host virtual tours using the latest telepresence robot ‘GOBE’ from Smartrobot.Solutions.

Inrotech has received an order for an extensive set of welding robots for shipbuilding in the United States. The Inrotech-MicroTwin and Inrotech-Crawler were purchased by Halter Marine in Pascagoula, Miss., and will be used during construction of United States Coast Guard’s new Polar Security Cutter. The 460-foot vessel will support U.S. national interests in Arctic and Antarctic waters.

Smart speakers, such as Amazon Echo and Google Home, have proven adept at monitoring certain health care issues at home. For example, researchers at the University of Washington have shown that these devices can detect cardiac arrests or monitor babies breathing. But what about tracking something even smaller: the minute motion of individual heartbeats in a person sitting in front of a smart speaker?

Researchers have succeeded in making an AI understand our subjective notions of what makes faces attractive. The device demonstrated this knowledge by its ability to create new portraits on its own that were tailored to be found personally attractive to individuals. The results can be utilised, for example, in modelling preferences and decision-making as well as potentially identifying unconscious attitudes.

In the era of social distancing, using robots for some health care interactions is a promising way to reduce in-person contact between health care workers and sick patients. However, a key question that needs to be answered is how patients will react to a robot entering the exam room.

The agriculture analytics market is expected to reach $2.27 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 17.5% during the forecast period of 2020 to 2027. The growth of this market is mainly attributed to the rising adoption of advanced analytics, data-driven decision-making techniques, and growing digitalization in the agriculture industry.

A computer network closely modelled on part of the human brain is enabling new insights into the way our brains process moving images – and explains some perplexing optical illusions.