Good morning, Here's Wednesday's Asia AI News! Scroll down for news, features and opinion on robotics
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September 16 · Issue #303 · View online |
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Good morning, Here’s Wednesday’s Asia AI News! Scroll down for news, features and opinion on robotics, the AI race, national AI policy, the Huawei ban and trade war. Have a great day and stay safe! /Carrington
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Better than humans? AI robot serves diners as South Korea restaurant ensures safe distancing amid Covid-19
#SouthKorea #robotics - ‘Aglio Kim’, a trolley-like robot which uses AI, is delivering food to customers at a restaurant in Seoul, in order to minimise human contact and help ensure social distancing.. (Reuters)
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Robots filling the void in post-coronavirus world in Japan
#Japan #robotics - The coronavirus pandemic has forced society to reshape how people interact, and robots are fast filling the void, even to the point of helping alleviate feelings of loneliness in a world where social distancing has become the new norm. ( The Mainichi)
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Robots on the farm: This startup is enabling farm mechanisation in India to cope with rising food demand
#India #smartfarming - TartanSense, is building small robots for small farmers with a mission to augment the current farm mechanisation effort in India. TartarSense is one of the 11 finalists of the US$100,000 Future Food Asia (FFA) 2020 Award. (E27)
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IT ministry to launch AI challenges for domestic entrepreneurs - india news - Hindustan Times
#India #startups - The Union Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MeitY) aims to launch a raft of AI challenges in a bid to empower domestic entrepreneurs. The ministry will hold AI challenges for sectors like healthcare, education, agriculture, natural language processing and smart mobility and transportation. (Hindustan Times)
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S. Korean medical center develops AI model to predict falling accidents
#SouthKorea #healthcare - Hallym University Medical Center in Anyang has developed an artificial intelligence model using big data to predict the possibilities of patients hurting themselves from falling at medical facilities in real-time. (Aju Daily)
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Scale of China's core AI industry hit $7.5 billion in 2019: official
#China #AIrace - The scale of China’s core AI industry had hit 51 billion yuan ($7.5 billion) by the end of 2019, with the number of AI enterprises exceeding 2,600, according to Wang Zhijun, vice minister of Industry and Information Technology. (Shine)
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AI principles for children released in China
#China #AIpolicy - Chinese institutions, universities and enterprises have jointly released principles governing the use of AI by children. The principles aim to effectively reduce the possible negative impacts of AI on children while providing them with better education. (Macau Business)
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Baidu launches smart earphones with Chinese-English translation
#China #AIvoice - Baidu unveiled its new ‘XiaoduPods’ smart wireless earphones equipped with real-time Chinese-English translation as the latest foray into the smart device market. (Shine)
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Opinion | America is going to decapitate Huawei
#China #US #Huaweiban - As of Sept. 15, new Commerce Department regulations make it almost impossible for any company to sell Huawei computer chips without a license from the American government. (New York Times)
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The US-China battle for tech supremacy has just intensified
#China #US #tradewar - First it was TikTok, now a proposed $US40 billion deal by America’s Nvidia to buy a chip design company will create new tensions between the US and China. (Sydney Morning Herald)
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About Carrington Malin
Carrington Malin is a UAE-based entrepreneur, marketer and writer who focuses on emerging technologies.
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