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Gravis Robotics Raises $200M in Series A Funding From SoftBank to Expand Autonomous Heavy Equipment Platform

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Insider Brief Gravis Robotics raised $200 million in a Series A investment from SoftBank to expand its physical-AI systems for autonomous heavy construction equipment. The ETH Zurich spinout develops the Gravis Rack, a hardware-agnostic control system that can retrofit machinery from manufacturers including Caterpillar, John Deere, JCB, Hitachi and Volvo for operator-assisted or autonomous operation. […]

El Niño and Saharan Dust Silence Atlantic Hurricane Season

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It’s the middle of Atlantic hurricane season, but you’d be forgiven for forgetting that it’s even happening. The basin has only seen three named storms since the start of hurricane season in June, a trio of weak and largely disheveled tropical storms. One or two additional tropical storms are possible through the middle of August […]

The benefits of medical AI assistance vary based on user expertise | MIT News

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A one-size-fits-all approach likely isn’t the best strategy when designing artificial intelligence systems that assist users in disease diagnosis. A new study by researchers at MIT and elsewhere found that, while AI assistance generally improved the accuracy of non-experts and clinicians in diagnosing skin diseases, AI explainability methods had different impacts depending on the users’ […]