AI Startup Shubu.ai raises 1m; Robot deliveries coming to Singapore

#India #funding - Shubu.ai, Bengaluru-based AI enterprise, has raised $1 million from a prominent health-tech investor. Shubu.ai is an accurate voice-based assistant developed focused on doctors and medical practitioners. (PR Newswire)

#Singapore #retail - Hoping to capitalise on a surge in demand for home deliveries, OTSAW Digital has developed service robots that have been offered to 700 households in a one-year trial. Users can book delivery slots for their milk and eggs, and an app notifies them when the robot is about to reach a pick-up point. (Reuters)

#India #justice - The Supreme Court of India launched the first AI-driven research portal (Supreme Court Portal for Assistance in Court’s Efficiency (SUPACE) on April 06, 2021. However, AI will not play any role in decision making in the court. (Jagran Josh)

#India #education - To attract young researchers, Robert Bosch Centre for Data Science and Artificial Intelligence (RBCDSAI) at IIT Madras in Chennai and Narayanan Family Foundation will launch a new fellowship called “Artificial Intelligence for Social Good.” (Times of India)

#India #Covid-19 - With hordes turning up for the Kumbh mela in Haridwar amid a surge in Covid cases, the Uttarakhand Police is using AI to zoom in on those not wearing masks. Officials said over 350 CCTV cameras have been installed at different locations in the mela area, with about 100 of these equipped with sensors that generate an alert when the camera captures the image of a person without a mask. (Indian Express)

#India #smartcities - Two years after commencing the construction work for a commercial complex in Thillai Nagar under the aegis of smart cities mission, Trichy corporation has completed 95% of the civil work. (Times of India)

#Canada #China #US #Huawei - Chinese tech giant Huawei on Monday said it had reached an agreement with HSBC in Hong Kong to secure documents that its senior executive Meng Wanzhou hopes will help her fight extradition to the United States from Canada. (France 24)

#China #US #Huaweiban- Huawei rotating chairman Eric Xu said “the U.S. sanctions is the main reason why we are seeing panic stockpiling of major companies around the world.” Huawei itself has built up a stockpile of chips to try to ensure its business — focused on telecoms equipment and consumer electronics — can continue as normal. (CNBC)

#China #US #Huaweiban - The Chinese equipment giant aims to reinvent itself as a software company serving industries besides the telecom sector. The emphasis on software is not surprising. US sanctions introduced under Donald Trump and maintained by Joe Biden have succeeded in cutting Huawei off from important hardware vendors. (Light Reading)

#Singapore #maritime - Asian Aviation Magazine Editor Matt Driskill is In Conversation with Nicolas Ang, the co-founder and CEO of F-DRONES in Singapore. Ang cofounded F-DRONES in 2019. The company is developing large-scale autonomous delivery drones for maritime logistics. (Asian Aviation)

#Myanmar #drones - Drones may be emerging as psychological warfare tactic to intimidate the population, says Jane’s International Defence Review China’s CH-3A unmanned aerial vehicle can be reconfigured to carry out communications intelligence and electronic warfare. (SCMP)

#China #defence - A few days after the US Air Force announced a combat drone launch of a smaller drone from its internal bay in a test flight, Global Times reported that a Chinese company test-flew an “airborne swarm carrier” last month. Neither the make nor features of the “mother drone” nor of the smaller drones were disclosed. (The Defence Post)

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