Smart Home and Sensor Technology – the IOT Home

The GEN-1.5 robot model from Generalist AI learns new physical tasks from one demo, without gradient updates. The company describes GEN-1.5 as the first model it knows of to show one-shot and few-shot learning of physical skills at scale. That claim points at a specific trade-off: whether teaching a machine a new job still requires The post Generalist AI’s GEN-1.5 robot model learns tasks from one demo appeared first on Internet of Things News.

Edge computing has become the default answer to a familiar problem on the factory floor. Rather than sending camera footage and sensor readings to a distant cloud server and waiting for a verdict, a plant puts a small computer next to the machine and gets the answer in milliseconds. The line keeps running when the The post Edge computing on the factory floor now starts with a memory conversation appeared first on Internet of Things News.

Factory data often sits inside operational systems that are separate from enterprise IT. Cisco and Rockwell Automation are targeting that divide with a software-defined manufacturing architecture that links plant-floor systems with higher-level computing environments. The companies’ Full-Stack Software-Defined Manufacturing architecture combines Cisco’s software-defined networking with Rockwell Automation’s software-defined automation. Cisco detailed the approach recently, describing The post Cisco and Rockwell connect IT and OT for industrial AI appeared first on Internet of Things News.

DEF CON Franklin and the NRWA announced the Water Watch Center, aiming to bring cyber defence services to US water utilities. The programme was announced during the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas and aims to give small utilities direct access to managed detection and response services after what the organisations described as a potentially The post Cyber defence initiative launches following US water utilities attack appeared first on Internet of Things News.

Make UK’s cybersecurity in manufacturing report puts recovery at the centre of factory planning. Manufacturers face a decision that reaches beyond the IT function: can the business keep producing, shipping, and meeting customer commitments after a cyber incident? Make UK frames cyber resilience as an operational requirement for connected factories, where enterprise systems sit alongside The post Manufacturing cybersecurity needs tested recovery plans appeared first on Internet of Things News.