But doing your job side-by-side with robots isn’t easy. According to their makers, the machines should take on the most mundane and physically strenuous tasks. In reality, they’re also creating new forms of stress and strain in the form of injuries and the unease of working in close quarters with mobile half-ton devices that direct themselves.
Taillon’s job is to enter a cage and tame Amazon’s wheeled warehouse robots for long enough to pick up a fallen toy or relieve a traffic jam. She straps on a light-up utility belt that works like a superhero’s force field, commanding the nearest robots to abruptly halt and the others to slow down or adjust their routes.
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Robotics Trends to Watch in 2020: Our 8 Big Predictions - Robotics Business Review
In 2019 we saw the world of robotics to continue to expand and disrupt new markets beyond the world of manufacturing and supply chain/logistics, as robots proved their worth in helping to address labor shortages and take on dangerous tasks. But even within the traditional fields, advances in artificial intelligence and software helped robots perform new tasks, working alongside human workers more collaboratively than before.
We are feeling a bit confident this year, as we did very well with our 2019 predictions. So let's jump right into the predictions for 2020:
Using Robots as Scapegoats Makes a Friendlier Workplace
(TNS) — Automation is changing America. Robots already operate rescue missions and build our cars, and they may soon be assisting in surgery and teaching our children. As many as 73 million American jobs could be lost to automation by 2030, and economists have written at length about the consequences of this transformation. However, automation may have implications beyond the economy, and few have considered how robots will change America's social fabric.
Robots clash at First Tech Challenge Charlottesville qualifier
CHARLOTTESVILLE, V.A. (WVIR) - Some of Virginia's best and brightest students converged on University of Virginia grounds to put their brains, and robots, to the test.
UVA played host to the Charlottesville regional qualifier for the First Tech Challenge. Middle and High Schoolers build robots to complete tasks and go head to head with other teams.
"They're just small, 18 inch cube robots," Jay Gardner, a c and they compete in games of four robots each, that's 2 v 2 and we rank the teams based on how they do in qualification matches. After that they have elimination matches and we decide who the best robot overall is."
While you're here, how about this:
Robotics Industry to Shift from Fixed Automation to Mobile Systems | Automation World
New market report forecasts that of the 8 million robots that will be shipped in 2030, nearly 6 million will be mobile.
"Everyone talks about self-driving passenger vehicles, but mobile automation is far more developed in intralogistics for fulfillment and industry," says Rian Whitton, Senior Analyst at ABI Research. "The automation of material handling will see huge segments of the global forklift, tow truck, and indoor vehicle market consumed by robotics vendors and Original Equipment Manufacturers [OEMs] that bring indoor autonomy."
Robotics Industry Insights - Mobile Robots – Where Are...
The TUG rarely needs human back up, but if it does, Aethon has a patented Cloud Command Center launched in 2006 that guides TUGs remotely and also updates software for the company’s 800 TUGs. Seiff says that the robots need remote assistance only 0.01% of the time.
Worker Shortage? AMRs Are Ready
Jason Walker, the CEO and co-founder of Waypoint Robotics, believes that the need for AMRs is growing because employers can’t find enough workers to hire. Walker says, “Our value proposition is let’s take the people you’ve already got who you know and trust and love, and let’s give them better tools.
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Engineers and nurses team up to build inflatable robots | Penn Today
Through the Penn Medicine Medical Device Accelerator, a physician's back-of-a-napkin sketch may soon help patients breathe easier.
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For Penn synthetic biologist César de la Fuente and his team, these concepts aren't some far-off ideal. They're projects already in progress, and they have huge real-world implications should they succeed.
Sophie underwent a cardiac ablation procedure in a Perelman School of Medicine translational research lab to treat her arrhythmia—the first time a dog with her diagnosis received such a treatment. Veterinary cardiologist Anna Gelzer says of the collaboration, "It's the best of both worlds."
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