ExaVibes AI-driven robot Mayflower recreates historic voyage

 

News Hub: a ship with no crew or passengers but a robotic captain driven by artificial intelligence to navigate the vessel the autonomous ship is set to embark on a transatlantic voyage retracing the formers of the famous voyage by the mayflower board about 400 years ago our next support tells you more 400 years ago mayflower made a famous voyage across the Atlantic carrying pilgrim settlers to America and making history

now its namesake a sleek robotic vessel is aiming to recreate the Atlantic crossing only with a modern twist the ship will be captained by a robot trained by IBM designed artificial intelligence the one million pound ship could become the largest ever autonomous vessel to cross it's the ocean as ready

 as it's going to be from a mechanical and electrical and a power and propulsion perspective and now we just want to continue to implement the autonomy and stress it and test it and throw things at it that it didn't see before make sure it's all working validate it and then yeah I think we're getting close everything seems to be working right now so armed with state-of-the-art tech vessel

 will be able to independently scan the horizon for possible hazards make informed decisions and change its course based on a matrix of live data warning hazard detected rather than having so many scientists on board trying to do lots of different jobs you can compress that down into a small payload like

this it really takes the stress off the scientists they can get focused on actually analyzing the data back in a comfy warm office whereas this is expendable it can go out there you can swap it out for different payloads later on if you want to and it's also you

 could you could cover far greater areas you could make lots and lots of these boxes and do lots of lots of experiments on many different ships whereas you've only got one scientist you can only do one thing at a time the creators of the ship are confident that the vessel could herald a new era of automated research ships we really need a huge amount of data to be able to actually

 understand what's going on with with the world's oceans and that's that's so important and using just traditional methods alone isn't going to allow us to actually really scale up how we do that so so together those traditional methods and the more recent innovations are really going to help enable us and give our scientists the information they need to really do those important tasks of around research and scientific breakthrough here after completing the six months of sea trials ibm's mayflower is all set to sail from the UK to the united states around april 19th on a course closely echoing the 1620 crossing bureau report we on world is one

Iran corona virus pandemic killing in every 10 minutes 149 people have death | Dr. McKeever EG was Death and risking for their lives doctor and nurses

Corona virus:Iran pandemic killing every 10 minutes 

across the world the corona virus pandemic has now killed more than 10,000 people and in Iran health officials say it is killing one person every 10 minutes another 149 people have died in Iran in the past day the death toll now stands at 1433 that is the third highest national death toll and there are more than 19,000 500 confirmed.

 cases of the virus there are reports that many people have ignored warnings not to travel ahead of the Persian New Year and behind all of the syste statistics of course there are countless individuals desperately trying to hold back the diseases spread and no more so than on the medical front line in the countries hospitals persons run our impor has been trawling through social media posts trying to get an idea of what the medics life is like a warning  may find some of her esporte distressing hey guys well unfortunately I'm not well

I still have a fever I'm taking multiple medications God willing they were two days after posting this video online dr. McKeever EG was dead this doctor also passed away she had continued to work even whilst attached to a drip dozens of doctors nurses and clerical staff have lost their lives battling kovat 19 in Iran the government is referring to them as martyrs it's notoriously difficult to get information out of the country but across social media medics tell the same story in the cafe des SUVs are and our staff are risking their lives here and you don't have the equipment just look at how unsafe



 My clothes are just regular plastic bags protect these nurses others have had to rely on the kindness of strangers the public has brought us these shields that we need disinfectants we need protective clothes the quality of what we have is worse than disposable clothes doctors here like everywhere else are having to make life-and-death decisions they're raw hockey neasha both had injured and the hospital is more like a gateway to the next world.

 this is too painful so many people are dying once you get to the intensive care unit there is no going back we don't have enough ventilators we have to prioritize the young patients over the older ones despite building several new field hospitals Iran has been widely criticized for its handling of the crisis but the government says it's been severely hampered by US sanctions they're exhausted and in equipped but they're determined to keep their patients in high I just when you take as a whole all of the social media interactions that you've been looking at it does it feel like Iran is at the moment totally ill-equipped to cope with the scale of the crisis they've got Stephen it sounds like a lot of help in sensitive.

Iran every 10 Minutes  Death

Iran especially help from the World Health Organization Japan just announced that it's also helping Iran about more than 20 million dollars but the question that many people are asking especially medical staff is that why it hasn't reached them or if it does it's so slow we're talking about a very bad past country the corona virus is now reported in the entire country although 31 provinces of the country are battling the coroner virus and either the process has been too slow or there are other reasons but according to many of these medics they haven't received any help yet right many Iranians.

I think it is fair to say have a deal of distrust about the information they're getting from public officials we saw officials come out today and give an update on the number of cases and the death which was in itself very depressing and disturbing but you think the Iranian people are any closer to trusting what their government is saying they're not and I and most of them believe that these numbers are not accurate they believe that the NAM are much higher possibly as close as the deaths in Italy and the reason is that that what we hear from.

This Global Pandemic

the medics and their radiologists who do their CT scans is that they are seeing many more cases well because they don't have test kits they are not they're not simply reporting it and it's not just a government the people themselves just because they don't trust the authorities they're not taking it seriously enough today is the Iranian New Year and we have heard that at leat more than 1 million people have travelled internally and it's possible that they have now moved the virus from one city to another despite the fact that the authorities are begging people to stay indoors and not travel yeah that's interesting I've seen pictures of Iranians blithely saying.

I'm getting in my car I'm going to visit family and friends out of Tehran why why are they doing this it's interesting because I've been speaking about it with family in Iran I said why why are people not taking it seriously enough I think there's a historic reason and there's possibly a religious reason many people believe that oh it's life and death is in the hands of God if you're meant to die you're die otherwise we're going to survive and also Iran has had a lot of volatility in its history so we're still I was born during iran-iraq war so my generation is used to the idea of possible death it's it's not as scary to many other nations so I think there's a combination of both and also mistrust of the authorities it is indeed a complex story and run and we thank you so much for keeping on top of it for us and of course we'll bring you all the very latest from Iran and all the other countries which are at the center of this global pandemic let's go. 

Global coronavirus cases: infections outpace China cases

coronavirus infections China cases  

first it was Wuhan then Italy in Spain now the decisions to lock down cities has reached the United States with New York and Los Angeles shutting down bars and restaurants and some schools now follows a surprise announcement' 

 The US Federal Reserve on Monday that it was cutting interest rates and injecting billions of dollars to encourage spending despite this Asian markets have closed down and there have been sharp force to in the European market since opening the French government has warned the situation there is deteriorating very fast it is considering with us and now follow Italy and Spain into lockdown.

 We do have some good news though in Seattle the first human trial for a potential coronavirus vaccine is starting later so let's go live to Dulles Airport near Washington DC Gary O'Donoghue was there for us Hugh Schofield joins us from Paris Gary if I can start with you tell us a bit more about the measures that are in place where you are but also in.

New York and Los Angeles yes we're starting to see substantial major shutdowns of the public school system here that's the state-run school something like 2/3 32 million children are now being told to stay at home for at least a couple of weeks and possibly longer so that's going to be a huge have a huge impact into a course on them and their their parents.

Six states have now banned bars and clubs and restaurants from opening other than for delivery purposes other states like like what like here in the District of Columbia where Washington is banned made made certain restrictions on what you can do in those places we're going to hear later on today whether there's going to be any further sort of social distancing or quarantine type restrictions.

The president can take those powers to himself at the moment the Center for Disease Control is recommending that there should be no gatherings of no more than 50 people at any one time that's a recommendation it can't make rules in that sense in terms of the numbers Lucy just finally. 

We have more than 3,500 cases here in the United States now sixty-five people have lost their lives and the virus has reached 49 out of the 50 states and hugely you in Paris what measures are being taken in France well as we've been reporting today's the day in which the raft of measures comes into effect which include the closure of schools nurseries and universities but also it's the first day working day in which the closure of shops non-essential shops the cafes restaurants and so on has hit hit so today is the first time in Paris that we've really feeling that life is changing and changing really drastically. 

but the question is that enough because 

What we've seen in the last few days isn't is a sudden acceleration of measures announced one after the other and there's a certainly a feeling that we're detecting here in government circles that things may still not be enough morn may need to be done there was a lot of irritation we're told over

 The weekend when government ministers saw pictures of Parisians out idling together in parks along that along the river send in groups as if nothing had had changed and at the same time have come a very very severe angry warnings from doctors saying you still don't get it out there we've got to change the way we live and that may be why tonight president macron has arranged another televised announcement and all sorts of rumors going around now about 

What that might contain with top of the list of those rumors the notion that he may and that's a much tougher form of confinement a la Spain or Italy so Gary while we're talking about presidential announcements there have been lots of conflicting messages in the US around the coronavirus from the president as well how would you judge the levels of trust in what the government scientists and experts are saying in the US the moment I think people are listening I think they're listening pretty carefully but as Hugh was saying.

I think the authorities are trying to work out you know when and how to deploy these different kinds of restrictions because the risk of course is that if you do if you do too many small things people won't do the big things and I think that's one of their fears so I think they're hesitating for example around the issue of domestic travel whether or not to ban that outright or to restrict it to the only the most small the smallest number of cases they're looking clearly at issues of greater amounts of working from home. 

How much will they impose that will have to see potentially later on today and meanwhile Congress is trying to put some legislation through to give some help to people who will be losing their jobs or maybe off sick because you have to bear in mind in this country there's no statutory sick pay you don't get paid if you're sick in this country buy-rite many companies do do it but you don't get it by right and Congress is trying to rectify that at least for some workers not for all Hugh has been heartbreaking to look at the pictures.

 The situation initially with the health system on its knees and under so much pressure how well-equipped is the French medical system to cope with what's to come well it's well-equipped and it's a good system you know it's a generously funded system and everyone is pretty proud.