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To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. In 1913, Henry Ford revolutionized car-making with the first moving assembly line, an innovation that made piecing together new vehicles faster and more efficient. Some hundred years later, Ford is now using artificial intelligence to eke more speed out of today’s manufacturing lines. At a Ford Transmission Plant in Livonia, Michigan, the station where robots help assemble torque converters now includes a system that uses AI ...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. Technology companies like to portray artificial intelligence as a precise and powerful tool for good. Kate Crawford says that mythology is flawed. In her book Atlas of AI, she visits a lithium mine, an Amazon warehouse, and a 19th-century phrenological skull archive to illustrate the natural resources, human sweat, and bad science underpinning some versions of the technology. Crawford, a professor at the University of Southern...

Human-Computer Interaction focuses on technology to improve daily lives April 21, 2021 By Nicole Herzog Graduate students David Porfirio (left), Bengisu Cagiltay (center) and Andrew Schoen (right) work with a robotic arm in the Wisconsin Human-Computer Interaction Lab located in the Computer Science Building. Photo: Bryce Richter From February through June, we will highlight the ways that UW–Madison powers the state’s economy through research and innovation, educates the next genera...

Abstract Many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD) are subjected to emergencies triggered by breathing difficulties. Oxygen therapy, administered from medical oxygen cylinders, can be used to relieve respiratory airways, and restore the supply of oxygen to the body’s vital organs. In this paper, we present a location-based ubiquitous crowdsourcing solution to enable COPD patients to request an emergency supply of oxygen cylinders. At the heart of the solution is a trusted...

Photo: John Biggs/Gizmodo The pandemic has proved that the future of fitness is online. Companies like Peloton and Apple have embraced online training completely, offering classes that seem as real and vibrant as anything held in a sweaty gym. Other companies like Hydrow are taking a more refined approach by creating a real-life experience in the real world, taking you on a trip across a rippling lake or down a distant river. Advertisement And then there’s the Echelon Row-S. Echelon builds l...

To revist this article, visit My Profile, then View saved stories. German carmaker BMW plans to start making drivetrains for electric vehicles at a vast factory in Regensburg, Bavaria, later in 2021. Well before any new parts roll off the production line, the entire manufacturing process will run in stunningly realistic detail inside a virtual version of the factory. The simulation allows managers to plan the production process in greater detail than was previously possible, says Markus Grü...

2021 2021 American Sign Language Interpreters in Public Schools: An illusion of inclusion that perpetuates language deprivation., Maternal and Child Health Journal. 2021 ASL-LEX2.0: A database of lexical and phonological properties for 2723 signs. , Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education 2021 2021 Deaf children of hearing parents develop age-level vocabularies if exposed to ASL by six-months. , Journal of Pediat...

Share: Researchers Propose a High-Accuracy Approach for Indoor Location Detection, With Various Potential Applications in Future ‘Smart Environments CINCINNATI, OH / ACCESSWIRE / April 1, 2021 / While GPS can help us successfully navigate outdoors, detection of indoor locations remains a challenge and needs to be addressed to enable age-friendly smart environments for the rapidly increasing aging population of the world. In a new study, researchers from the US take indoor location detection t...

Screenshot: USTPO One thing that most Big Tech companies working on smart glasses haven’t figure out yet is how to effectively interact with an augmented reality environment. Apple is heavily rumored to be working on its own pair of AR glasses and apparently considered vibrating haptic socks to tackle this problem. Advertisement A new patent spotted by AppleInsider mainly describes a haptic output device that “may include foot-shaped structures with cavities configured to receive the feet o...

Share Virtual reality (VR) might be Facebook’s main commercial focus when it comes to immersive technology at the moment but the company is heavily investing in an augmented reality (AR) future. Today, Facebook Reality Labs (FRL) has given another teasing look into its vision, which revolves around a contextually-aware, AI-powered interface for its AR glasses. Image credit: Facebook Reality Labs AR presents multiple challenges when it comes to hardware, software and how we interact with it al...