AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.
Food

AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.

A pioneer in dishwashing robots is reaching into commercial kitchens. Dishcraft Robotics uses machines equipped with computer vision to scrub dirties for corporate food services and, soon, restaurants.

June 3, 20201 min read
AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.
Food

AI Does the Dishes: Dishcraft Robotics automatically cleans dishes and utensils.

A pioneer in dishwashing robots is reaching into commercial kitchens. Dishcraft Robotics uses machines equipped with computer vision to scrub dirties for corporate food services and, soon, restaurants.

June 3, 20201 min read
AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.
Food

AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.

Deep learning research is harvesting better ways to manage farms. A convolutional neural network predicted corn yields in fields across the U.S. Midwest.

April 22, 20202 min read
AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.
Food

AI on the Cob: An AI system predicted crop yields.

Deep learning research is harvesting better ways to manage farms. A convolutional neural network predicted corn yields in fields across the U.S. Midwest.

April 22, 20202 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Food

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights
Food

Machine Learning Churning: The hottest AI startups of 2020, according to CB Insights

Many of this year’s hottest AI companies are taking the spotlight from last year’s darlings.What’s new: CB Insights, which analyzes early-stage companies, published its annual list of the 100 “most promising” startups in AI.

March 11, 20201 min read
Poultry in Motion: Tyson Foods uses AI to track inventory of chicken products.
Food

Poultry in Motion: Tyson Foods uses AI to track inventory of chicken products.

A top meat packer is counting its chickens with AI. Tyson Foods is using computer vision to track drumsticks, breasts, and thighs as they move through its processing plants, the Wall Street Journal reports.

February 26, 20201 min read
Poultry in Motion: Tyson Foods uses AI to track inventory of chicken products.
Food

Poultry in Motion: Tyson Foods uses AI to track inventory of chicken products.

A top meat packer is counting its chickens with AI. Tyson Foods is using computer vision to track drumsticks, breasts, and thighs as they move through its processing plants, the Wall Street Journal reports.

February 26, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Food

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI
Food

Kai-Fu Lee — AI Everywhere: The expanding business possibilities for AI

Artificial intelligence has moved from the age of discovery to the age of implementation. Among our invested portfolios, primarily in China, we see flourishing applications using AI and automation in banking, finance, transportation, logistics, supermarkets, restaurants, warehouses, factories...

January 1, 20201 min read
A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.
Food

A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.

Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

November 27, 20192 min read
A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.
Food

A Sleeping Giant Stirs: Sony launches three AI R&D centers.

Sony, the consumer-electronics powerhouse behind the PlayStation and other hit gadgets, is launching three research-and-design centers to focus on AI. Staffing up means competing with — and likely poaching talent from — frontrunners like Google, Facebook, and Microsoft.

November 27, 20192 min read
Machines Take Everyone’s Job
Food

Machines Take Everyone’s Job

From blue collar laborers to lab coated professionals, is any job safe from AI? AI will exceed human performance at a wide range of activities. Huge populations will become jobless.

October 30, 20192 min read
Machines Take Everyone’s Job
Food

Machines Take Everyone’s Job

From blue collar laborers to lab coated professionals, is any job safe from AI? AI will exceed human performance at a wide range of activities. Huge populations will become jobless.

October 30, 20192 min read
Automation’s Frontier: Fast Food
Food

Automation’s Frontier: Fast Food

Quick-service restaurants are experiencing record-high employee turnover, while labor advocates are pushing for higher wages. Some experts say these forces are propelling the fast food industry toward full automation.

September 11, 20191 min read

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