Artificial intelligence

Haber furthers AI for industrial sustainability with USD $20 million from Series B

Haber furthers AI for industrial sustainability with USD $20 million from Series B

Pune (Maharashtra), 23rd Nov 2021: India based Haber has just closed its Series B taking its total funding raised to date to $27 million. Haber develops AI-driven industrial robots which automate the tedious manual process of sample collection, measurement, analysis and intervention at factories. Currently, the majority of industrial activities, though driven by machines, require intense manual monitoring and is dependent on scarcely available human experts. As industry scales to meet growing demand, this further accentuates the problem leaving industries at the mercy of few skilled experts. If interventions are not done on time it affects productivity and quality and…
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Researchers devise digital method to process Sanskrit texts

New Delhi: While various digital resources have improved the accessibility and use of world languages and even regional languages, Sanskrit presents unique challenges in automated computational processing. In addition to the sheer volume and diversity, both stylistic and chronological, found in these texts, the linguistic peculiarities expressed by the language, pose several challenges in making these works accessible to the world. Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur are making Sanskrit accessible with their Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based system for processing Sanskrit texts.  Researchers led by Dr Pawan Goyal have developed a digital infrastructure for the efficient processing of…
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Eco-friendly scooter for last mile delivery and personal commute

New Delhi: Rising pollution and increase in prices of petrol and diesel have prompted the manufacturers to develop eco-friendly and better fuel-efficient vehicles. Working in this direction, the electric scooter 'Hope' has been launched by Gelios Mobility, an Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, incubated start-up. With a running cost of around 20 paisa per kilometre this scooter is found to be best suited for the last mile delivery and personal commute. HOPE comes with a portable charger and a portable Li-ion battery that can be charged through a normal domestic socket found in homes, eliminating the requirement of a…
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“Data and Artificial Intelligence are growing sectors among new job clusters”

New Delhi: Data and artificial intelligence are the fastest growing clusters and these sectors need to be included in schools, colleges, and university curricula, said Director IBM Research India, and CTO, IBM India and South Asia, Dr. Gargi B Dasgupta. She was discussing the jobs that would stay for the next ten years, at a special lecture on National Science Day (NSD) on the theme ‘Future of STI: Impacts on Education, Skills and Work’. She spoke about the future of jobs and the urgency of science, highlighting the recent study by the World Economic Forum (WEF) on the new emerging…
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