A Microsoft research team is partnering with Harris County in Houston, Texas, to tests a new type of mosquito trap. The initiative, called Project Premonition, leverages new technology to trap and ...

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As a widespread disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes, malaria affects over 500 million people annually. Over one million people die each year from mosquito-borne diseases. In fact, for every war ...

Microsoft Is Trapping Bugs in Robotic Smart Traps to Help Prevent the Next Pandemic The Azure-based Premonition Cloud is a global sensor network and data pool that analyzes insect activity for signs ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced that Premonition, a robotics and sensor platform for monitoring and sampling disease carriers like mosquitos and a cloud-based software stack for ...

Five years after starting out as an experimental project to see if advanced sensors and artificial intelligence could spot the signs of a disease outbreak before it happens, Microsoft Premonition is ...

As COVID-19 drags on, a big question is how best to prevent major spread of the next pandemic? At Microsoft, they're looking to the Azure-based Premonition Cloud, a global sensor network and data pool ...

Microsoft researcher Ethan Jackson sets up a robotic mosquito trap in Grenada. (Microsoft Photo) BOSTON – Microsoft’s robotic mosquito trap is so smart it can tell one insect species from another – ...

Mosquitoes are the worst -- but they could also be the key to giving us a heads up about emerging diseases before they become full-blown outbreaks. That's the focus of Microsoft Research's "Project ...