Sony AI unveils food projects; Ecommerce giant JD partners with NVIDIA

#Japan #business - Founder and CEO of Cinnamon Inc. Miku Hirano, believes AI technology has the potential to transform the way we work: liberating us from mundane tasks and streamlining processes that, up until now, have eaten up a significant portion of our working hours. (Japan Times)

#Japan #F&B - Sony AI, an AI and robotics research and development company spun out from Sony, today announced its “Gastronomy Flagship Project.” The new food-related endeavors include an AI-powered recipe creation app, a robot chef’s assistant and a community co-creation initiative. (The Spoon)

#China #Singapore #diagnostics - Ping An Insurance Group has launched an AI-assisted clinical decision support system (CDSS), AskBob Cancer for Gastroesophageal Cancers, developed by Ping An, National University Hospital, Singapore (NUH) and National University Cancer Institute of Singapore (NCIS). (PR Newswire)

#China #AVs - Self-driving truck technology company Plus (formerly Plus.ai) will sell trucks powered by its automated driving system on Full Truck Alliance (FTA), the Google-backed Chinese digital freight-matching platform. The Level 3 autonomous trucks will be manufactured by another Chinese trucking giant, FAW, the world’s largest heavy-duty truck manufacturer. (Freight Waves)

#SouthKorea #US #AVs - Motional, the Hyundai Motor-Aptiv joint venture, said Thursday it has partnered with U.S. ride-sharing firm Lyft Inc. to launch driverless robotaxi services in major U.S. cities in 2023. (Korea Bizwire)

#SouthKorea #AVS - LG Uplus Corp., a major South Korean telecom operator, demonstrated Thursday an autonomous vehicle that can park on its own, using its high-speed 5G network. The test car, a Genesis GV80 SUV equipped with lidar and radar sensors. (Yonhap News Agency)

#China #trucking - Trucks in China connected to G7’s fleet-management network do more than just haul goods. Using IoT, they can employ anti-fatigue cameras to call out bad driving, built-in advanced driver-assistance systems to send warnings about insufficient space between vehicles on highways, and real-time cargo weighing to prevent stealing. (Japan Times)

#India #Quantum - IBM outlines commitment to grow a quantum ready workforce and build an ecosystem to nurture the quantum community in India. With the announcement of the National Mission on Quantum Technologies and Applications, interest in quantum computing has been surging in India. (Economic Times)

#China #smartcities - JD iCity, a unit of ecommerce company JD focusing on smart cities, has applied its AI-driven control system to a thermal power plant in North China with the aim of improving efficiency and cutting pollution. (Caixin Global)

#China #US #smartcities - GPU inventor NVIDIA announced at its GPU Technology Conference (GTC) that it will work with Chinese retail giant JD.com to build the first smart city with the world’s first level-4 smart delivery vehicle application. (Pandaily)

#Japan #smartcities - Panasonic Corporation is testing an autonomous delivery robot in Fujisawa Sustainable Smart Town, the six-year-old urban development initiative in Fujisawa City, Kanagawa Prefecture. (Cities Today)

#Japan #ASEAN - The Japanese government has decided to market the country’s comprehensive technologies and services for “smart cities”, a next-generation city model that optimises the use of cutting-edge telecommunications, to Southeast Asian countries. (Asia News Network)

#China #AIchips - Horizon Robotics is not only developing chips but also the software and cloud platform, with an eye toward prying into applications like security cameras and autonomous cars. (Electronic Design)

#Japan #drones - Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI), which regards the expansion of the drone business as the “Aerial Industrial Revolution,” created the “Road Map for Aerial Industrial Revolution” in 2017 and has revised it several times to date. (Japan Times)

#China #US #techwar - Launching missions to the moon and Mars, diving to the depths of the oceans and racing to develop Covid-19 vaccines, China and the United States are competing on almost every frontier of research and technology on Earth and beyond. (SCMP)

#China #Russia #Huawei - Growing global technology tensions have led Huawei to make a bet on Russia. This strategy—while largely driven by Huawei being pushed out of the West—is also catalysed by Chinese and Russian government support for bilateral science and technological cooperation. (CFR)

#China #DigitalSilkRoad - As part of China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), Beijing launched the Digital Silk Road (DSR) in 2015 with a loose mandate. It has since become a significant part of Beijing’s overall BRI strategy, under which China provides aid, political support, and other assistance to recipient states. (The Diplomat)

#China #surveillance -When Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, wanted a new police command center, it turned in March 2019 to a Chinese state-owned company.  CEIEC set up the facility and installed dozens of surveillance cameras on the city’s streets, including 20 equipped with facial recognition technology – at its own expense. (Kharon)

#Singapore #airforce - Singapore’s air defence can now strike airborne threats that are twice as far away. That’s with new ground-based missiles in the Republic of Singapore Air Force’s Island Air Defence system that can dart 70km away in a matter of seconds. (Channel News Asia)

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