Robotics

New York bins subway surveillance robot

The New York City subway has pulled its controversial security robot out of service after little more than five months patrolling the busy Times Square station.

Engineering

AI can alert urban planners and policymakers to cities' decay

More than two-thirds of the world's population is expected to live in cities by 2050, according to the United Nations. As urbanization advances around the globe, researchers at the University of Notre Dame and Stanford University ...

Machine learning & AI

AI-based visual tech to be applied to CCTV cameras

A visually based artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by South Korea's Electronics and Telecommunications Research Institute (ETRI) will be deployed on CCTV cameras for detecting and preventing crimes.