Bots on stage

Miko, an AI robot for kids, gets its own streaming series. Produced by Moonbug Entertainment and available on YouTube, Miko: The Animated Series follows six-year-old Liza and her companions Red and Blue — two robot characters based on the Miko 3 robot.

Belgian developer Chris Umé (33) has created a 3D-deepfake version of Elvis Presley performing. The AR-installation was shown during the show America’s Got Talent. Members of the jury Sofia Vergara, Heidi Klum en Simon Cowell were also programmed to take part in the performance. Umé says he has worked six weeks for 20 hours a day to get this result.

Robotics, 5G and art: during the month of May visitors to the Turin’s art museums, Turin Civic Gallery of Modern and Contemporary Art (GAM) and Turin City Museum of Ancient Art (Palazzo Madama), had the opportunity to be part of various experiments based on 5G-network technology. Interactive technologies and robots were the focus of an innovative enjoyment of the art collections, with a great appreciation from the public.

TUM Autonomous Motorsport from the Technische Universität München (TUM), has won the Indy Autonomous Challenge (IAC), the first autonomous racecar competition at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway (IMS). TUM competed in a field of 9 teams from 21 universities to win the $1 million grand prize.

Robot combat competition BattleBots presented the official BattleBots casino slot games. Developed by Konami Gaming at Caesars Entertainment Studios during the new season taping of the 2021 World Championship. This game includes some of BattleBots’ most well known robot competitors like Tombstone, Witch Doctor, HyperShock, and more. BattleBots slots take players on a combat to cash as robots strike, swing, shove, slice, and smash with each spin.

From 26 to 29 August 2021, the first International Data Science Film Festival (IDSFF) will take place. The IDSFF is the first film festival in the world to focus entirely on Data Science and AI. The IDSFF will take place in the Mariënburg monastery, home JADS, in the center of ‘s-Hertogenbosch.

Visitors to the Rijksmuseum can now enjoy The Night Watch in its original form, for the first time in 300 years. Several sections were cut from the painting in the past. The Operation Night Watch team has successfully recreated these missing pieces, which have now been mounted around Rembrandt’s world-famous work. This reconstruction based on the 17th-century copy attributed to Gerrit Lundens was made with the help of artificial intelligence. The result is a significant component in the art historical research conducted as part of Operation Night Watch. The reconstructed painting will remain on public display at the Rijksmuseum for the coming months. Anyone who is unable to visit the museum due to the ongoing restrictions can view the reconstruction on our website, along with plenty of supplementary information.

Le projet « Le bateau qui vole », dont l’objectif est d’exploiter en temps réel les données de navigation du trimaran Ocean Fifty Primonial pour le rendre plus rapide, mêle big data, IA et machine learning.

Microsoft Flight Simulator, which reconstructs the entire world in 3D based on AI and Bing data from the Azure cloud, yesterday received an award at the 24th edition of the D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Awards, an initiative of the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences (AIAS).

How was the much-watched video of Boston Dynamics dancing robots made? In this video, Adam Savage, one of the Mythbusters presenters, shows how Spot learned to dance.