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Meet Natalia Shahmetova, CMO at Gismart PetTech Company: Woofz
Woofz is a dog training app with more than 1 million downloads, which unlocks the secrets of what makes pets…
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Using a USB headset for Google Meet calls is finally getting simpler
Meet Andrew Fleury, CEO & Co-Founder at Computer Vision & AI Micromobility Startup: Luna
Luna is a whose mission is to make micromobilty safer for riders and pedestrians. When fitted to an e-scooter or…
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Meet BRILLO: The robot bartender for when you’re tired of human interaction
Have you ever wanted all the benefits of going to a bar without having to talk to the actual human being serving your drinks? You’re in luck, because Italian scientists at the University of Naples Federico II have developed a machine that can do just that.
Using machine-learning algorithms, BRILLO (Bartending Robot for Interactive Long-Lasting Operations) can do everything you expect of an experienced, battle-hardened bartender. He can remember your favorite drinks, make small chit-chat, and even crack jokes if that’s the mood at the bar.
As seen in the video above, BRILLO sports an old-fashioned look complete with a bow tie and vest, alongside long mechanical arms and a human-like face to make him more personable.
According to CNBC Make It, BRILLO started development in 2020 through a partnership between university researchers at PRISCA Labs and Totaro Automazioni, an Italian manufacturer of food assembly line machines. Professor Silvia Rossi, a lead researcher at PRISCA, told CNBC Make It that instead of just making a machine that can make drinks, the team wanted to “mimic the important social aspects of a bartender’s job.”
Rossi and her team have gone to great lengths to train BRILLO’s AI algorithm to “study a customer’s face and speech patterns in order to learn, in real-time.” This will allow BRILLO to be aware of what mood a customer is in and start an interaction based on that.
Despite having spent two years teaching BRILLO complex dialogue-based interactions, CNBC Make It tells us not to expect robots to take jobs at your local dive bar anytime soon or in the near future. Rossi told CNBC Make It that “people are understandably more hesitant to engage in conversation with a robot.”
BRILLO the bartending robot currently exists “only for research purposes,” Rossi said. “There are very challenging issues also from the privacy and ethical point of view, so we want to take care of [that].”
Google Meet really wants to stream all your videos, games and more
The Healthcare System Needs a Modern Alternative – Meet Welzo
With waiting lists and frustrating delays in the NHS, new alternatives are rising on the market. Welzo is an ambitious…
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The merged Google Meet app lets you host group Spotify and YouTube sessions
Google’s merger of Meet and Duo may be confusing, but it should deliver some useful upgrades in the bargain. The company has added a live sharing beta feature that lets users of the revamped Meet share Spotify and YouTube streams during chats. You can play games like Uno Mobile and Kahoot, too. The functionality will sound familiar if you’ve tried SharePlay, but you can’t use Spotify or YouTube with Apple’s media feature.
The Meet upgrades include scheduled recurring meetings, virtual backgrounds and in-meeting chats. As with the Meet features coming to Duo, live sharing has been rolling out over recent weeks. The rebranding of Duo as Meet will take place throughout August for mobile devices, and is coming later for everyone else.
Google has pitched the Meet-and-Duo union as an adaptation to the modern realities of video calls. Live sharing clearly reflects this. I’s an acknowledgment that many people use video chats as social spaces, particularly when remote hangouts are more common than they were before the pandemic.
Marine Biologists Are Offering a Rare Chance to Meet a Great White Shark
This may be your best chance of meeting a great white shark that doesn’t involve dressing up like a seal and covering yourself in blood. The shark-tracking organization OCEARCH is launching a sweepstakes for a lucky winner to join the OCEARCH team on an upcoming research expedition, a trip that will inevitably feature…