Despite the advancements in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, Robots have not learnt how to show emotion just yetbut when we think of robots, more often than not images of clunky humanoid contraptions, metal with hinged joints and bulky movement spring to mind (excuse the pun). Whilst there are lots of applications for hard robotic machines such as factory lines, farming, … [Read more...] about How Will the Softer Side of Robots Affect our Lives
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How Big Data Will Save Our Planet
It is difficult to argue with numbers. Whether you are a CEO looking to optimise your supply chain or a consumer wondering whether to buy an electric car, it is increasingly clear that our choices will have an impact on the world that our children and their children will live in. The numbers are increasingly indisputable. Predicting our climate has always been a tricky … [Read more...] about How Big Data Will Save Our Planet
4 Ways Big Data and Machine Learning Are Helping Conservation
The interdisciplinary field of computational sustainability is using machine learning algorithms to analyse and extract valuable insights from sets of Big Data gathered from environmental fields. Its not just about having large data sets or advanced pattern finding algorithms its how we use them. The following projects highlight how Machine Learning and Big Data are helping … [Read more...] about 4 Ways Big Data and Machine Learning Are Helping Conservation
How Is Big Data Helping Humanitarian Crises
The world today is more connected than ever before. 46.1% of the world population are online, thats 3.4 billion internet users. Each of these users typically have 5.54 social media accounts. We generate on average 303 million tweets a day and 60 billion messages a day on Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp. Youll agree these numbers are staggering and were constantly generating and … [Read more...] about How Is Big Data Helping Humanitarian Crises
What Happens When You Merge Virtual Reality with Big Data
An article in the Journal of Big Data points out that one of the most difficult challenges of combining big data with virtual reality to produce useful scientific applications is the limitation of human perception. Virtual Reality, Big Data and Science Researchers at Cal Tech University have taken the first step towards solving this dilemma. The first step of answering any … [Read more...] about What Happens When You Merge Virtual Reality with Big Data
