Facebook open sources droidlet- the platform to build robots

Droid let, The platform for building robots that leverage natural language processing to understand the world around them. According to a new report from venture beat, Facebook has open-sourced droidlet recently.   Droidlet enables researchers to test different NLP and computer visions to build systems that can accomplish tasks in the real world or simulated environments like Minecraft or Facebook’s Habitat. It simplifies the integration of machine learning algorithms in robots. The platform delivers a dashboard for researchers to add debugging and visualization widgets and tools as well as an interface for rectifying errors and annotation. Droidlet ships with wrappers for connecting…

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Researchers to find out the best teleconferencing platform: All you need to know

As a result of the covid 19 pandemic, People across the world stay connected using teleconferencing platforms like Zoom. But when it comes to telemedicine, not all medical care is easily translated to a remote format.   In remote medical practices, voice therapy presents a particular challenge because clinicians must depend on acoustic recordings of voice to assess the efficacy of their procedures. But most teleconferencing platforms distort sounds in their efforts to remove background noise. Boston University graduate researcher Hasini Weerathunge associated with other BU researchers to put five…

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