MAROKO133 Update ai: Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man Wajib Baca

📌 MAROKO133 Eksklusif ai: Delivery Robot Torments Disabled Man Edisi Jam 10:50

A man with cerebral palsy who uses a mobility scooter to travel experienced a blood-boiling episode when he kept getting cut off — by a robot.

In a video that’s gone viral on social media, Mark Chaney repeatedly attempts to drive his scooter around a sluggish delivery bot operated by a startup called Swerve Robotics as it randomly stops and occupies half a sidewalk in West Hollywood. 

Even more strangely, the clanker courier — like certain maniac drivers on a highway — seemed to get swept into an episode of road rage.

When Chaney tries to pass, the bot swerves directly into his path, even brake checking him a few times. Before the video ends, it cuts him off, continues driving for half a second, then slams the brakes again. It happened so quickly that Chaney ends up rear-ending the machine.

“The way that it moved just seemed really intentional,” Chaney, a disability advocate, told the Los Angeles Times. “Everywhere that I moved, it blocks, and then it literally went across the sidewalk to cut me off.”

Chaney’s encounter sums up the frustrations that pedestrians — and sometimes motorists — experience with the autonomous robots that have taken over college campuses and cities across the US, including Los Angeles.

Don’t let their small stature fool you. While most of the time they’re more of a mild nuisance or a source of bemusement than a physical threat, they can still hurt people and cause accidents. Last year, a woman suffered a bad fall after she was struck by a robot from Starship, one of the leading delivery bot startups, that suddenly reversed into her path — and then backed into her again before fleeing the scene of the crime.

Meanwhile, they’ve also traded paint with and damaged cars. One bumbled into the path of and collided with a Waymo robotaxi, in a rare instance of autonomous vehicle on autonomous vehicle violence. Another plowed through a crime scene.

In a statement addressing this latest incident, Serve said its robots are designed to safely navigate around mobility devices and people with disabilities.

“We regret when we do not live up to that,” it said, per the LA Times.

“After examining this incident, we learned that our safety system designed to predict pedestrians’ intentions and yield right of way instead caused the robot to impede their way,” Serve explained. “Within moments, the robot came to a full stop in response to sensing a pedestrian in close proximity, which is considered its fail-safe state.”

Chaney told the LA Times that he asked Serve to create an accessibility council to address these issues.

“I think this is really important for the future of AI and the disability landscape,” he added. “This presents an opportunity to really tackle a problem head on, make some positive change.”

Since being uploaded two weeks ago, Chaney’s video has racked up some 30 million views on TikTok and Instagram, bringing an outpouring of support and some good humored-jokes that highlight the absurdity of the encounter. But weirdly, there’s been some vitriol, too.

“There’s been a lot of online hate, which is to be expected when you go viral,” Chaney told the LA Times. “But, you know, the death threats are not great.”

His critics — if you can call them that — accuse him of staging the incident for money and attention, like one video comment with more than 1,600 likes that asserts Chaney’s “in the wrong here and maybe looking for a payout,” per the newspaper.

“I didn’t do this to sue someone,” Chaney said. “I just wanted to get from one place to another on a public space, safely and unimpeded.”

More on robots: Amazon Testing Humanoid Robots to Ride in Vans, Hand-Deliver Packages

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📌 MAROKO133 Hot ai: US to soon spot hostile drones at longer ranges using new syst

The United States could soon get the capability to detect hostile drones at longer ranges. An AI-enabled drone detection system was recently demonstrated at the Technology Readiness Experimentation event.

L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI recently showcased the system that can detect hostile UAVs faster than current systems.

The test event also demonstrated that the system can detect UAVs even if drones are partially obscured by buildings or clouds.

Unmanned threats that require faster responses

L3Harris tested the passive capabilities using WESCAM MX-Series electro-optical/infrared sensors integrated with Shield AI’s Tracker counter-UAS software to detect multiple classes of unmanned aerial systems. 

“Our warfighters and allies are facing a new breed of unmanned threats that require faster responses at greater ranges without being detected themselves,” said Tom Kirkland, Vice President and General Manager, Targeting and Sensor Systems, L3Harris.

“Partnering with Shield AI enables combat-proven targeting systems like the WESCAM MX-Series to be more effective and provide added protection to operators.” 

Fine-tuning different airborne object behavior models

The next phase of L3Harris Technologies and Shield AI’s collaboration will include fine-tuning different airborne object behavior models to enhance performance tracking across air, land, and maritime domains during daytime and night operations.

The AI-powered capability will be integrated with the L3Harris VAMPIRE Counter-Unmanned System, designed to defend against small drones.

“Adversaries are fielding more drones, cheaper and in more complex environments than ever before,” said Christian Gutierrez, Vice President, Hivemind Solutions, Shield AI. “Defeating that threat requires technology that is intelligent, adaptable and passive, and this collaboration with L3Harris brings together the strengths of autonomy and sensing to meet that urgent operational need.”

Targeting systems support intelligence

Used in the latest innovation, L3Harris’ WESCAM MX-Series of multi-sensor, multi-spectral, electro-optical and infrared (EO/IR) surveillance and targeting systems support intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and target acquisition missions from platforms across the air, land and maritime domains.

WESCAM MX-Series turrets have outperformed their major competitors in every performance area, giving them the longest EO/IR target identification and designating ranges in the industry (in each class size).

L3Harris highlighted that its designating systems enable teams to dominate the battlefield 24/7, with greater precision than ever before. Field proven, with extensive deployment, WESCAM MX-Series designating systems offer “plug-and-play” installation, as well as high-sensitivity multi-spectral sensors for day, low-light, and night-time missions, according to the company.

High mean-time-between-failures is achieved through a diode-pumped laser target designator. WESCAM MX-Series systems offer precise geo-pointing technologies for hands-free simplicity regardless of aircraft movement or obstructions. The capability is here.

The company pointed out that WESCAM MX-Series EO/IR systems bring a new generation of forward-looking infrared and electro-optical sensor capability to a market where advanced asymmetrical threat identification technologies have become a necessity.

🔗 Sumber: interestingengineering.com