Artificial Intelligence news

The company’s specialized AI chips are in great demand, boosting its value to over $1tn, a first for a chipmakerThe chipmaker Nvidia has far surpassed quarterly expectations, raking in $13.5bn in revenue – over $2bn more than the $11.2bn Wall Street analysts had predicted – amid skyrocketing demand for its computer chips that power artificial intelligence (AI) systems.The blockbuster second quarter comes at a moment of intense hype around generative AI, a mood that Nvidia has b

Latest technology uses tiny electrodes on brain surface and is faster than synthesisers which rely on eye trackingA severely paralysed woman has been able to speak through an avatar using technology that translated her brain signals into speech and facial expressions.The advance raises hopes that brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) could be on the brink of transforming the lives of people who have lost the ability to speak due to conditions such as strokes and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). C

Latest technology uses tiny electrodes on brain surface and is faster than synthesisers which rely on eye trackingA severely paralysed woman has been able to speak through an avatar using technology that translated her brain signals into speech and facial expressions.The advance raises hopes that brain-computer-interfaces (BCIs) could be on the brink of transforming the lives of people who have lost the ability to speak due to conditions such as strokes and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). U

Back in January, Apptronik said it was working on a new commercial general-purpose humanoid robot called Apollo. I say “new” because over the past seven or eight years Apptronik has developed more than half a dozen humanoid robots along with a couple of full-body exoskeletons. But as the company told us earlier this year, it has decided that now is absolutely definitely for sure the time for bipedal humanoids to go commercial.Today, Apptronik is unveiling Apollo. It says the robot is