Birmingham City University’s Digital Media Technology Lab is working on a mixed reality system that allows medical practitioners to view and interact with virtual models of organs and bones, and also change models of patient […]
Waikato Hospital in New Zealand now can conduct childbirth training on a wireless birth simulator – named Lucy Sim – the second of its kind in the country. It will be used for midwifery training […]
Naval Group – a French industrial group specialized in naval defense and marine renewable energy – recently delivered its visual defense simulator ‘Simdav’ to the French Navy. Simdav is designed to facilitate effective self-defense training […]
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) – in conjunction with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) – recently ran its first Face Recognition Prize Challenge (FRPC) to assess the capabilities of the […]
The ‘Improving Surgical Training’ (IST) pilot program in the United Kingdom for trainee surgeons aims to provide more time for training, create longer placements in each location, and enable better progression through competency training. Simulation […]
Pieter Abbeel, Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley and students have a new start-up, Embodied Intelligence Inc., which uses deep reinforcement learning and artificial intelligence to easily teach […]
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) is using advanced simulation-based training systems from CAE with the aim of doubling the number of first officers it produces annually. The Air Mobility Training Centre (AMTC) in Trenton, […]
The Emirates Flight Training Academy in Dubai, United Arab Emirates has signed an agreement with TRU Simulation + Training – Textron Inc. (NYSE:TXT) company – to supply six new flight simulators (FSTDs) with mini-motion systems. […]
The King Abdul Aziz City for Science and Technology (KACST) recently unveiled its combat drone Saqr 1. The drone is able to fly at an average altitude of 25,000 feet, with a flight time of […]
Lieutenant General Mike Lundy, commander of the U.S. Army combined arms center, recently stated that the service branch will increase synthetic training operations at home station and combat training centers. Plans are underway to design […]
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