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From AI (thinking) to AEI (feeling)

08/10/2018education articles#AEI, #AI, #Artificial Emotional Intelligence, #Artificial Intelligence, #Behavior, #BPU Holdings, #Computer Vision, #EI, #Emotional Intelligence, #Emotions, #Empathy, #Emulation, #Feelings, #Humanoid robots, #Machine Learning, #Natural Language Processing, #Recognition, #Virtual assistants, #ZimGoDaria

“Emotional intelligence (EI) is the capability of individuals to recognize their own emotions and those of others, discern between different feelings and label them appropriately, use emotional information to guide thinking and behavior, and manage and/or adjust emotions to adapt to environments or achieve one’s goal(s).”

— Colman, Andrew (2008). A Dictionary of Psychology (3 ed.). Oxford University Press. (source: Wikipedia)

Major strides have been made creating Artificial Intelligence (AI). Machines embedded with AI can do a lot, but they lack what is inherent in people — Emotional Intelligence.

Emotional intelligence allows us recognize our own emotions and those of others and use this information to guide our thinking and behavior. Moving from AI to AEI is a work in progress.

Image source: KQED

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(VIDEO) NTR LAB Rocks IT In Siberia

07/25/2018education articles#AI, #Autonomous table, #Big Data, #Blockchain, #Classification systems, #Complex multiplatform systems and apps, #Computer Vision, #Developers, #educational and scientific center, #Image recognition, #Programmers, #Siberia, #Testers, #The right team, #Video, drone, NTR Lab, software developmentDaria

Want to rock your startup, but lack IT expertise?

Shortage of qualified developers? No time to build the right team? Have an idea, but aren’t technical? Startup needs been there/done that advice? Speed is everything; to develop fast you need new developers to both start and scale.

We are NTR Lab — a custom software development company. We can help with all the questions above. We offer solutions. We develop our clients’ ideas using our existing teams.

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NTR Lab Developed The Autonomous Table That Could

07/19/2018education articles#Autonomous table, #Avoiding obstacles, #Build a map, #Camera, #Engineer, #Gyroscope, #IMU, #Indoor navigation system, #lidar, #Location, #Move, #Navigation Stack, #Path, #Sensors, #Simultaneous Localization And Mapping, #Unknown environment, #Video, #Visual odometry, drone, NTR Lab, SLAMDaria

When learning something new you can study and discuss or you can study and do. NTR techies like to do.

Back in 2013 some of our developers were spending time after work at a colleague’s home. Idly kicking ideas around, they looked at a table and thought it would be really cool if table could move on its own, place itself in space and avoid obstacles in an unfamiliar indoor space. A clever table that could bring drinks, documents, whatever, all on it’s own.

People are fascinated by autonomous robots tricked out with navigation systems that can reach targets hundreds of meters from their initial position, especially when they are flying inside an unmapped premises and have to find their path with no help.

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NTR LAB and all the latest @ AI Expo Europe

07/05/2018education articles#AI Expo Europe, #AI Expo North America 2018, #Amsterdam, #Applications, #Artificial Intelligence, #Blockchain: Rethink Trust, #Development, #Event, #Exhibition, #IoT Tech Expo Europe, #Networking, #Technology, NTR LabDaria

There are lots of links in this post, since the event was full of great meetings and information!

Last week the NTR Lab team attended AI Expo Europe in Amsterdam. We were there to present our Autonomous UAV (drone) for technical inspections.

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Autonomous UAV (drone) for technical inspections

06/28/2018education articles#AI Expo Europe, #Blockchain, #Compatible with most platforms, #Crawler, #Does not require maps, #Fully autonomous, #IoT Tech Expo Europe, #Light source, #Navigation system, #Obstacle detection system, #Powerful battery, #Sensors, drone, NTR Lab, SLAM, software development, technical inspections, UAVDaria

Three great co-hosted events are happening today at Amsterdam’s RAI! Visit Twitter and Facebook for pictures and updates.

The AI Expo Europe – June 2018 – Amsterdam

Here are links to the event’s Twitter and Facebook page.

IoT Tech Expo Europe – June 2018 – Amsterdam

Here are links to the event’s Twitter and Facebook page.

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Our team is going to AI Expo Europe in Amsterdam

06/21/2018education articles#AI Expo Europe, #Amsterdam, #Artificial Intelligence, #Blockchain, #Event, #Exhibition, #Innovations, #IoT Tech Expo Europe, #Next generation technologies, #Showcase, #Unique self-navigating drone, drone, NTR LabDaria

Next week we will be in Amsterdam to attend AI Expo Europe: Europe’s Leading Artificial Intelligence Event.

Europes-Leading-AI-Event

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Cryptocurrencies, Blockchain and Smart Contracts — Oh My!

06/07/2018education articles#Address, #Amount, #Anonymous, #Bitcoin, #Blockchain, #Cosmopolitan, #Cryptocurrency, #Cryptographic key, #Dash, #Ethereum, #IoT, #Monero, #Satoshi Nakamoto, #Smart Contracts, #Transaction, #Wallet, #ZCashDaria

by Peter Adrianov, Blockchain Developer of NTR Lab

In 2009 a new online payment system was created by an anonymous entity with the pseudonym of Satoshi Nakamoto. To this day no one knows if Nakamoto is one person or a group, but just about everyone has heard about what they created — bitcoin. Bitcoin became the first widespread cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency allows you to store its value without intermediaries. In this, it is similar to cash. As cash lies on your nightstand, your bitcoins are stored in a large file called a blockchain.

The file is structured so that new blocks can be added only to the end chain; nothing written previously can be changed. The blocks store records of transactions, what address to what address, amount, transaction time.

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Developers @ DevPRO’18 in Siberia

05/31/2018education articles#AI, #Developers, #DevPRO’18, #educational and scientific center, #Siberia, #Special Economic Zone, #tech companies, #The Big Bang Theory, #Tomsk town, #top IT specialists, #town of great universities, #unique technology solutionsDaria

Last week we shared events from SPRINT ROBOTICS: 2018 Robotics Showcasing and Demonstration Events in California. We hope you found it interesting and that you enjoyed the video.

The second conference we attended was DevPRO’18 in Tomsk, Siberia.

Siberia?

If you think that Siberia is an unwired wilderness full of bears and lacking IT, think again — especially about Tomsk.

Tomsk is a notable educational and scientific center and one of the largest sources of IT specialists in Russia thanks to its six state universities:

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Nick @ SPRINT ROBOTICS Robotics Showcasing and Demonstration Events

05/24/2018education articles#Aerial Vehicles, #AI, #California, #Crawler, #Ground Vehicles, #Multicopter, #Robotics Showcasing and Demonstration Events, #Software for self-navigating drones, #SPRINT ROBOTICS, #Underwater VehiclesDaria

It is part of our company’s culture to take part in IT Conferences around the world. We go for many reasons, as speakers, to learn about the latest tech and trends, to meet people with the same tech passion, and, last, but not least, to meet companies with which to collaborate.

We attended two conferences in May, the first was the two-day SPRINT ROBOTICS 2018 Robotics Showcasing and Demonstration Events in Richmond and Pittsburg, California. (We’ll tell you about the other next week.)

SPRINT ROBOTICS describes the event this way.

“Using robotics in the domain of technical inspection and maintenance of capital intensive infrastructure is of vital importance because of the urgency to minimize the impact on safety and the environment. Developments in this domain are moving very fast, and we invite you to come and see some of the solutions that the market has to offer!.”

NTR Lab was one of the participants, along with

In the short video below you can see the introductions of different companies and their robotics.

Thanks to Fiori Films for the video.

Watch our CEO Nick Mikhailovsky and our drone at 1:40.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K4MtyuhIl8

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Why Do Neural Networks Need An Activation Function?

04/26/2018education articles#A. Pinkus, #Activation Function, #Approximation Theory, #Computer Vision, #Continuous Functions, #Family of Functions, #Kolmogorov - Arnold, #Neural Networks, #Polytope, #Ridge Functions, #Riemann IntegrableDaria

by Computer Vision Department of NTRLab

Suppose we are given a set of distinct points P = {(x_i, y_i) ∈ ℝ^m ×ℝ}_i=1,…,n which we regard as a set of test samples x_i ∈ ℝ^m with known answers y_i ∈ ℝ. To avoid non-compactness we may assume that P lie in some compact K, for example, K may be some polytope. Does there exist some continuous function in space of all C(K) continuous functions on K such that its graph is a good approximation for our set P in some sense?

From the approximation theory point of view, a neural network is a family of functions {F_θ, θ ∈ Θ} of some functional class. Each special neural network defines each own family of functions. Some of them might be equivalent in some sense. If we restrict ourselves to only MLP according to the above problem with only one intermediate layer consisting of N elements then the corresponding family of functions will be

FORMULA NN 12

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