- Trump will build virtual border wall? The White House has already signed a contract with Anduril Industrial, technology company of Palmer Luckey, founder of Oculus VR. There are plans to build surveillance towers equipped with artificial intelligence technology. The towers will use cameras and thermal imaging to detect anyone trying to cross the border and then automatically send the location of such a person to US Border Patrol agents. It has been confirmed that 200 of the towers are to be built by 2022. The towers will not use facial recognition, they detect movement and check whether the object is human. – LINK
- SmartReplay technology on Youtube – the technology equipped with artificial intelligence analyzes messages and comments of user and then guesses what the recipient of the comment would like to respond. The user decides whether he or she chooses a prepared answer and publishes it. This solution is designed to facilitate the use of YT and enable the most popular users to stay in contact with the followers. LINK
- The German robotics company Festo developed bionic birds. Their work BionicSwift uses ultra-lightweight construction and artificial feathers. The birds are guided by GPS sensors and move along a pre-programmed flight path, but in the event of an unforeseen factor such as a gust of air, radio communication enables them to change their flight path immediately. Festo anticipates that the robot can be used in factories for e.g. moving materials.
- Barcelona started to use the AI in the subway trains to limit the spread of coronavirus. The RESPIRA platform from SENER Engineering is equipped with the AI system and provides real-time readings of temperature, humidity, air quality and electricity consumption in the metro stations and then runs the intelligent ventilation system to maximize fresh air, regulate temperature, humidity and help to stop the spread of coronavirus – LINK
Agata Konieczna
