Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. One of the most useful ways to look at new artificial intelligence technologies is to evaluate how they mimic biological designs.

Retailers must monitor everything happening in their store environments. They also need “to balance that customer experience with the loss of a sale and the theft of a product,” said Andy Szanger, ...

Nathan Eddy works as an independent filmmaker and journalist based in Berlin, specializing in architecture, business technology and healthcare IT. He is a graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill ...

Picture this: a busy warehouse that once required dozens of human workers to inspect thousands of items each day. These employees would spend hours looking closely at products for defects, sorting ...

Faster self-service shopping. Self-service kiosks and checkouts powered by computer vision offer personalized, faster shopping. Imagine a store where shelves are never empty, checkout lines are a ...

We are in the middle of a huge boom in artificial intelligence (AI), with unprecedented investment in research, a supercharged pace of innovation and sky-high expectations. But what is driving this ...

Imaging research in the popular field of computer vision almost always involves analysing humans and their environments, and most of the subsequent patents can be used in surveillance technologies, a ...