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Escorts Kubota enlists AI to reinvent railway, construction, and agriculture

CIO

Kakkar and his IT teams are enlisting automation, machine learning, and AI to facilitate the transformation, which will require significant innovation, especially at the edge. For example, for its railway equipment business, Escorts Kubota produces IoT-based devices such as brakes and couplers.

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Curtsy, a clothing resale app aimed at Gen Z women, raises $11 million Series A

TechCrunch

The app uses a combination of machine learning and human review to help the sellers merchandise their items, which increase their chances of selling. Curtsy also helps sellers to schedule a free USPS pickup to save a trip to the post office, and it will even send sellers a shipping label, if need be.

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Kodiak Robotics pilots autonomous trucking between California, Texas and Florida

TechCrunch

Autonomous trucking startup Kodiak Robotics recently completed a coast-to-coast commercial run between Texas, California and Florida for 10 Roads Express, a USPS mail carrier, according to Kodiak. “That’s a very common problem with AI and machine learning in general.

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CommonGround raises $25M for immersive video avatar technology that doesn’t rely on VR gear

TechCrunch

Based around machine learning, CommonGround’s platform is theoretically learning all the time from its users: The more you use it, the more you train it and the more accurate it becomes. And to be clear, the startup confirms that the tech is not in any way connected to what others are building around the same concept.

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V7 snaps up $33M to automate training data for computer vision AI models

TechCrunch

Radical Ventures and Temasek are co-leading this round, w1ith Air Street Capital, Amadeus Capital Partners and Partech (three previous backers ) also participating, along with a number of individuals prominent in the world of machine learning and AI. V7’s specific USP is automation.

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Personalized nutrition startup Zoe closes out Series B at $53M total raise

TechCrunch

Zoe uses big data and machine learning to come up with predictive insights on how people will respond to different foods so that it can offer individuals guided advice on what and how to eat, with the goal of improving gut health and reducing inflammatory responses caused by diet.

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How Python Can Help Data Science Professionals

The Crazy Programmer

It is used for web development, writing scripts, data analysis, machine learning , etc. The USP of the product is its simple programming structure which comes with an array of advantages. Python is easy to use compared to other programming language and is very flexible. It can be used both by experts and beginner alike.

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