Author: OurCrowd

Ever found the increasing number of humanoid robots a little, well, creepy? You’re not alone. In fact, in 1970 professor Masahiro Mori coined a phrase for the unease we feel when a realistic robot elicits a negative reaction: the Uncanny Valley. It’s a chasm into which hundreds of robots have fallen ever since. When Toshiba’s ChihiraAico was unveiled at 2015’s CES the media reaction said it all. The machine, designed to mimic a 32-year-old woman, was “the creepiest robot ever”, “scarily realistic” and “spooky”. Read more on Red Herring...

This is a mixed bag of applications that impact many different fields. Take, for example, Intuition Robotics, started by yet another graduate from Israel’s military intelligence unit 8200, which earlier this year introduced an artificial intelligence-based robotic device called ElliQ that aims to keep elderly people active and engaged. Medaware, another start-up, watches out for prescription error using machine learning. Cortica uses artificial intelligence image recognizing technology, among others to help autonomous car driving systems recognize what’s happening around them. One more example is RoboTeam, a leading maker of military robots now branching out into home assistants, for which it secured $50 million in funding last year. Read more on CNBC...