Microsoft to let clients build AI agents for routine tasks from November
Oct 21 (Reuters) – Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab will allow its customers to build autonomous artificial intelligence agents from next month, in its latest push to tap the booming technology amid growing investor scrutiny of its hefty AI investments.
The company is positioning autonomous agents – programs that need little human intervention unlike chatbots – as “apps for an AI-driven world” that can handle client queries, identify sales leads and manage inventory.
A portion of independence: UTSA seniors create prototype robot to help feed disabled individuals
It was his end-of-life struggles with cancer that inspired the UTSA engineering senior to work with a small team of fellow students to create a prototype robot that allows disabled or paralyzed individuals to feed themselves with little to no caregiver assistance, helping them regain a measure of independence.
San Antonio security company tests surveillance robots from Singapore at SAMMinistries shelter
Two robots from Singapore will begin securing the perimeter of SAMMinistries’ downtown shelter starting next week.
Since the nonprofit, which offers housing and services for people experiencing homelessness, opened the shelter at a downtown San Antonio Holiday Inn in December 2023, it has contracted with Texas Veteran Security to patrol the site.
Across three shifts, 27 guards monitor the perimeter of the former hotel, at 318 W. Cesár E. Chávez Blvd. on the west side of downtown, by foot and vehicle around the clock.