Intel AI-Powered Backpack Helps Visually Impaired Navigate World

What’s New: Artificial intelligence (AI) developer Jagadish K. Mahendran and his team designed an AI-powered, voice-activated backpack that can help the visually impaired navigate and perceive the world around them. The backpack helps detect common challenges such as traffic signs, hanging obstacles, crosswalks, moving objects and changing elevations, all while running on a low-power, interactive device. … Continued

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With Intel Tech, A Singapore Coffee Shop Builds a Robot Barista

At Crown Coffee, a small-yet-homey coffee bar in downtown Singapore, the barista never gets your order wrong. Ella is her name and with uncanny consistency she makes a perfect cup of coffee every time. Ella is not human, but a fully autonomous robot barista. Named after the wife of Crown Coffee’s CEO and founder Keith … Continued

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Intel Speeds AI Development, Deployment and Performance with New Class of AI Hardware from Cloud to Edge

» Download all images (ZIP, 11 MB) What’s New: Today at a gathering of industry influencers, Intel welcomed the next wave of artificial intelligence (AI) with updates on new products designed to accelerate AI system development and deployment from cloud to edge. Intel demonstrated its Intel® Nervana™ Neural Network Processors (NNP) for training (NNP-T1000) and inference … Continued

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Intel Brings the Most Integrated Platform-Wide Leadership to PCs with New 10th Gen Intel Core Processors and Project Athena at COMPUTEX 2019

NEWS HIGHLIGHTS 10th Gen Intel® Core™ processors (code-named “Ice Lake”) based on 10nm are now shipping. 10th Gen Intel Core processors with Iris® Plus graphics bring broad-scale artificial intelligence (AI) to the PC for the first time. With approximately 5x accelerated AI performance1, approximately 2x graphics performance2 and nearly 3x faster wireless speeds3, these processors … Continued

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Images: Intel Artificial Intelligence Opens Door to Mobility for Quadriplegic Community

» Download all images (ZIP, 3 MB) Photo 1: HOOBOX Robotics’ Wheelie 7 kit allows users to pick from 10 facial expressions to control their motorized wheelchair – moving forward, turning and stopping. Instead of invasive body sensors, the Wheelie 7 uses a 3D Intel RealSense Depth Camera SR300 mounted on the wheelchair to stream … Continued

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Intel Artificial Intelligence Opens Door to Mobility for Quadriplegic Community

» Download all images (ZIP, 3 MB) What’s New: With HOOBOX Robotics’ Wheelie 7* kit powered by Intel artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, people can control their motorized wheelchairs with simple facial expressions. There are more than 60 people in the United States testing the Wheelie 7 – most of whom are quadriplegics, people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis … Continued

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New Intel-Based Artificial Intelligence Imaging Solution to Accelerate Critical Patient Diagnoses

What’s New: Intel and GE Healthcare* are teaming up to deliver artificial intelligence (AI) solutions across multiple medical imaging formats to help prioritize and streamline patient care. By leveraging the Intel® Distribution of OpenVINO™ toolkit running on Intel® processor-based X-ray systems, GE Healthcare is accelerating deep learning with medical imaging at the point of care. Using this … Continued

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