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Want inspiration? Try being charged by a two-ton African black rhino. Early in her career, wildlife biologist Zoe Jewell and her team came across a mother rhino and her calf and carefully moved closer to get a better look. The protective mother rhino charged, chasing Jewell across the dusty savannah. Eventually, Jewell got a flimsy …

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Cameras have been deployed in factories for over a decade — so why, Franz Tschimben wondered, hasn’t automated visual inspection yet become the worldwide standard? This question motivated Tschimben and his colleagues to found Covision Quality, an AI-based visual-inspection software startup that uses NVIDIA technology to transform end-of-line defect detection for the manufacturing industry. “The …

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In the fast-paced field of making the world’s tech devices, Pegatron Corp. initially harnessed AI to gain an edge. Now, it’s on the cusp of creating digital twins to further streamline its efficiency. Whether or not they’re familiar with the name, most people have probably used smartphones, tablets, Wi-Fi routers or other products that Taiwan-based …

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Israel’s largest private medical center is working with startups and researchers to bring potentially life-saving AI solutions to real-world healthcare workflows. With more than 1.5 million patients across eight medical centers, Assuta Medical Centers conduct over 100,000 surgeries, 800,000 imaging tests and hundreds of thousands of other health diagnostics and treatments each year. These create …

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Tokyo-based startup Telexistence this week announced it will deploy NVIDIA AI-powered robots to restock shelves at hundreds of FamilyMart convenience stores in Japan. There are 56,000 convenience stores in Japan — the third-highest density worldwide. Around 16,000 of them are run by FamilyMart. Telexistence aims to save time for these stores by offloading repetitive tasks …

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In a swift, eye-popping special address at SIGGRAPH, NVIDIA execs described the forces driving the next era in graphics, and the company’s expanding range of tools to accelerate them. “The combination of AI and computer graphics will power the metaverse, the next evolution of the internet,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, kicking …

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