Amazon Picking Challenge, ICRA 2015

http://amazonpickingchallenge.org/

MIT Technology Review, Amazon Robot Contest May Accelerate Warehouse Automation.

IEEE Spectrum interview with Facebook AI Director Yann LeCun

http://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/artificial-intelligence/facebook-ai-director-yann-lecun-on-deep-learning

Microsoft Launches Azure Machine Learning Service

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2885348/machine-learning/microsoft-launches-machine-learning-as-an-azure-service.html

http://www.infoworld.com/article/2886132/machine-learning/how-machine-learning-ate-microsoft.html

Microsoft [Knightscope] Robots

http://www.dailydot.com/technology/microsoft-robot-security-guards/

http://knightscope.com/

Magic tricks created using artificial intelligence for the first time

http://phys.org/news/2014-11-magic-artificial-intelligence.html

http://scienceblog.com/75358/magic-tricks-created-using-artificial-intelligence-first-time/

A Worm's Mind in a Lego Body

http://www.i-programmer.info/news/105-artificial-intelligence/7985-a-worms-mind-in-a-lego-body.html

Dronecode Project

https://www.dronecode.org/

Linux Foundation and Leading Technology Companies Launch Open Source Dronecode Project

 

 "Dronecode Project to advance development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles; 3D Robotics, Baidu, Box, DroneDeploy, Intel, jDrones, Laser Navigation, Qualcomm Technologies, SkyWard, Squadrone System, Walkera and Yuneec among founding members"

"More than 1,200 developers are working on Dronecode with more than 150 code commits a day on some projects"