Robots filling the void; 'America is going to decapitate Huawei'

#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)

#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)

#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)

#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)

#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)

#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)

#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)

#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)

#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)

#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)

Carrington Malin is a UAE-based entrepreneur, marketer and writer who focuses on emerging technologies.