IKEA Says AI-Powered Warehouse Drones Will Improve the Retail Shopping Experience

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1. IKEA Says AI-Powered Warehouse Drones Will Improve the Retail Shopping Experience

IKEA is deploying AI-powered drones to improve inventory management in its warehouses. The drones, equipped with RFID and barcode scanners, collect data 15 times faster than humans and can read 95% of barcodes and labels found in warehouses.

The fleet has grown from a single drone in Switzerland in 2021 to over 250, navigating through 73 locations across nine countries. The use of drones in warehouses is growing by 15.7% annually, with potential economic benefits such as reduced labor costs and energy consumption.

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2. On a mission to help 1 million people reclaim their voice

ElevenLabs is partnering with nonprofits to provide free licenses for their Impact Program, aiming to empower 1 million new voices to communicate, learn, and experience life without limits.

The program supports initiatives enhancing accessibility, advancing education, and improving shared cultural experiences. ElevenLabs invites organizations to join their mission, and if your nonprofit is working on AI Audio projects, they're interested in learning more. Together, we can create a world where every voice contributes to a better future.

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3. BeyondMath’s ‘digital wind tunnel’ puts a physics-based AI simulation to work on F1 cars

BeyondMath is introducing a new method of simulating the real world, aiming to accelerate digital design by shortening the wait time between ideas and determining their effectiveness.

The company's first product is a "digital wind tunnel," which provides near-real-time simulation of airflow over a complex surface at a fidelity that would normally take hundreds of times as long. BeyondMath's goal is to accelerate the digital design side by utilizing machine learning instead of just more GPUs running the same old equations.

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4. Salesforce releases ‘xGen-MM’ open-source multimodal AI models to advance visual language understanding

Salesforce has released a suite of open-source large multimodal AI models, dubbed xGen-MM (BLIP-3), which could accelerate research and development of more capable AI systems.

The models, which include pre-trained models, datasets, and fine-tuning code, can handle interleaved data, enabling complex tasks like answering questions about multiple images simultaneously. Salesforce's decision to open-source these models could accelerate innovation in the field, but raises questions about the potential risks and societal impacts of increasingly capable AI systems.

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5. Epic Systems is building more than 100 new AI features for doctors and patients. Here’s what’s coming

Epic Systems CEO Judy Faulkner delivered a keynote at the annual Users Group Meeting, where the company discussed how new artificial intelligence features can help doctors and patients. Epic, a healthcare software giant, houses medical records for over 280 million individuals in the US.

The company has over 100 AI features in the works, including generative AI that will help doctors revise message responses, queue up orders for prescriptions and labs, and streamline processes like insurance denial appeal letters and prior authorization requirements.

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