October 27, 2024

Robotics

Relay Robotics proposes levels of autonomous navigation for indoor robots – The Robot Report

Listen to this article A Relay robot makes a hotel delivery using autonomous navigation. Source: Relay Robotics When we think of autonomous navigation, the first thing that usually comes to mind is self-driving cars. Although their development has spanned decades, recent years have seen significant advancements. One important framework that is used ubiquitously in the self-driving car industry is the classification of levels of driving automation. Defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in

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Wireless Innovator Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini Remembered

2 min read Gerard Foschini [middle] with his children, Charles J. Foschini and Darlene Foschini-Field at the 2018 Stevens University Esteemed Alumni Awards held at The Plaza Hotel in New York City. Sanjai Rambhadjan IEEE Life Fellow Gerard J. “Jerry” Foschini, a Bell Labs researcher for more than 50 years, died on 17 September, 2023, at the age of 83. Foschini made groundbreaking contributions to the field of wireless communications that improved the quality of

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AI

Voice and Staff Separation in Symbolic Piano Music with GNNs

This post covers my recent paper Cluster and Separate: A GNN Approach to Voice and Staff Prediction for Score Engraving published at ISMIR 2024 Emmanouil Karystinaios · Follow Published in Towards Data Science · 9 min read · 16 hours ago — Background image originally created with Dall-E 3 Introduction Music encoded in formats like MIDI, even when it includes quantized notes, time signatures, or bar information, often lacks important elements for visualization such as

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Hardware

NASA Warns A Bus-Sized Asteroid Will Skip Past Earth This Week

NASA says a bus-sized asteroid is about to make a close approach, coming within 148,000 miles of Earth. According to the space agency, the asteroid, named 2024 UQ1, measures approximately 32-feet across. Astronomers and scientists are constantly on the lookout for large space rocks that could pose a threat to Earth. ATLAS, an asteroid impact early warning system in Hawaii, recently spotted a small asteroid that will temporarily orbit Earth during October and November, essentially

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