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Rachelle Abbott

Tech & Science Daily: AI helmets give firefighters ‘superhero ability’

The National Robotorium has created AI smart helmets for firefighters to help locate people in smoke-filled rooms.

Tech & Science Daily have been speaking to Dr Chris Lu, Lecturer in Cyber-Physical Systems in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh and is leading the project.

Dr Chris Lu says that the helmets can give firefighters an almost ‘superhero ability’ to find people and could also be used in the future for other types of rescues.

More on Netflix gaming, as they’ve announced their creating their own video game studio.

The studio will be based in Helsinki and led by a former Zynga and Electronic Arts executive.

China’s Mars Zhurong rover finds historic evidence of cataclysmic flooding on the red planet.

The analysis published in Nature is the first result from its radar imager, which can probe up to 100 metres below the surface.

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