What Is a Smart Hospital?

Smart hospitals — which utilize data and AI insights to facilitate decision-making at each stage of the patient experience — can provide medical professionals with insights that enable better and faster care. A smart hospital uses data and technology to accelerate and enhance the work healthcare professionals and hospital management are already doing, such as …

Self-organization: What robotics can learn from amoebae

Amoebae are single-cell organisms. By means of self-organization, they can form complex structures—and do this purely through local interactions: If they have a lot of food, they disperse evenly through a culture medium. But if food becomes scarce, they emit the messenger known as cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP). This chemical signal induces amoebae to gather …

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Amazon Rekognition Labels adds 600 new labels, including landmarks, and now detects dominant colors

Amazon Rekognition offers pre-trained and customizable computer vision capabilities to extract information and insights from images and videos. One such capability is Amazon Rekognition Labels, which detects objects, scenes, actions, and concepts in images. Customers such as Synchronoss, Shutterstock, and Nomad Media use Amazon Rekognition Labels to automatically add metadata to their content library and …