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October 21, 2019

SRI International Debuts “Emotional AI” Vision Technology to Advance the Driving Experience

Menlo Park, CA. October 21, 2019 – SRI International (SRI), a leading global nonprofit research center, today announced its advanced Emotional Artificial Intelligence (AI) automotive technology that will enable the next-generation of vehicles to detect the driver’s emotions and respond accordingly. SRI’s advanced AI technology will learn from and grow with the driver to effectively allow […]
October 18, 2019

SRI Ventures Announces Successful Funding Round for Latent AI

Menlo Park, CA – SRI Ventures, a division of SRI International, today announced the successful funding round for one of their portfolio companies: Latent AI, a company that takes the hard work out of AI processing on the edge raised $3.5 million led by Future Ventures. “This successful funding round is a testament to the […]
September 23, 2019

Dreaming may help the brain forget excess memories, a study of mice shows
September 23, 2019

SRI and Kawada partner to develop welding innovations
September 18, 2019

The brain may actively forget during dream sleep

NIH-funded study suggests REM sleep may prevent information overload Rapid eye movement, or REM, sleep is a fascinating period when most of our dreams are made. Now, in a study of mice, a team of Japanese and U.S. researchers show that it may also be a time when the brain actively forgets. Their results suggest […]
September 11, 2019

Tech history: the story behind Stanford’s satellite dish hiking trail in Palo Alto

The scoop on the past and present of the famous radio telescope that is still active today
September 11, 2019

SRI International Partners with Kawada Technologies and Kawada Industries to Introduce Weld-Visualization Technology and Next-Generation, 3D-Welding Helmet

MENLO PARK, CA. September 11, 2019 – SRI International (SRI), a nonprofit research center, announced their collaboration with Kawada Technologies, Inc. (KTI) and Kawada Industries to develop Xtreme Dynamic Range (XDR) weld visualization technology that uses image processing to visualize live weld details to the welder safely. XDR has been further applied to a next-generation, 3D-welding helmet that uses cameras […]
September 5, 2019

How can we keep students safe at school?
September 3, 2019

In AI we trust? How might we design intelligent systems that inspire trust?

How might we design intelligent systems that inspire trust?
July 16, 2019

SRI International’s Parijat Bhatnagar Wins Prestigious DARPA Young Faculty Award

MENLO PARK, Calif.— July 16, 2019 — SRI International researcher Parijat Bhatnagar, Ph.D., has been named a winner of the 2019 Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Young Faculty Award (YFA) for his project “Remote Regulation of Cellular Medicine with Extracorporeal Devices”. Bhatnagar and his team intend to engineer immune cells that can be remotely activated to […]
May 24, 2019

SRI International, Silicon Valley Robotics and NEDO Host US-Japan Robotics Conference “The Rise of the Robots”

MENLO PARK, Calif.—May 24, 2019—SRI International today announced it is hosting “The Rise of the Robots” on Thursday, May 30, in collaboration with Silicon Valley Robotics and NEDO, the largest public agency for R&D funding in Japan. This one-day robotics conference will provide a glimpse into a future where humans and robots will work dynamically […]
April 22, 2019

SRI International Demonstrates Interferometric SAR with Radar Designed for CubeSat Form Factor

MENLO PARK, Calif.— April 22, 2019—Researchers from SRI International have successfully demonstrated new Interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) capabilities with a radar developed for CubeSat-based earth science applications. Designed for the power and thermal requirements of the space environment, the low-weight, highly compact sensor has the potential to improve short-term forecasting of geologic hazards and […]
April 15, 2019

SRI International awarded contract to support U.S. Army Integrated Visual Augmentation System

MENLO PARK, Calif. April 15, 2019 – SRI International has received an award to deliver digital night vision camera prototypes to support the U.S. Army’s IVAS (Integrated Visual Augmentation System) program. The award was issued by SOSSEC, Inc. on behalf of the Night Vision and Electronic Sensor Directorate (NVESD). In support of the program, SRI will […]