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According to this view, there is no categorical distinction between humans, animals, and objects, so it is not so strange for a robot to demonstrate human-like behaviours – it’s just showing its particular kind of kami . “For Japanese, we can always see a deity inside an object,” says Kohei Ogawa, Mindar’s lead designer.
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It tromps along without a care, until it bumps into an obstacle. Repeated shoves don't seem to budge this roadblock. Left with no alternative, it squeezes in its midsection. It raises part of its body above the obstacle like someone hiking up the hem of their dress to step over a puddle. Now it can move over the obstacle and continue on its merry way.
This is not an animal but a robot. It's capable of moving, changing its shape, and solving problems, all without the direct input of humans.
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With developments happening at lightspeed, thanks to the growth in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, the robotics industry should see an upward trend this year. As such, the global industrial robotics market is expected to reach an encouraging value of around $24 billion by 2025.
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Robotics is now being used more to perform complicated procedures than just repetitive tasks, from minimally invasive surgery to exploring oceans for untapped oil deposits and much more. Additionally, the rise in aging population has also boosted the space, with health monitoring and self-treatment, hyping demand especially among elders and for eldercare.
Bear Robotics, a company making robot waiters, just raised a $32 million round led by SoftBank
Back in August, we flagged a filing for you that we found interesting, one for a now 2.5-year-old, 40-person Redwood City, Calif.,-based startup called Bear Robotics that’s been developing robots to deliver food to restaurant customers. The filing listed a $35.8 million target; Bear Robotics founder and CEO John Ha now tells us the final close, being announced today, was $32 million in Series A funding.
Because we know you’re interested in much more than Bear Robotics’ funding picture, we asked Ha — a former Intel research scientist turned technical lead at Google who in recent years opened and closed his own restaurant — to share more about the company and its robot servers.
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It’s done with an array of tiny speakers that emit sound at very carefully controlled frequencies and volumes. These produce a sort of standing pressure wave that can hold an object up or, if the pressure is coming from multiple directions, hold it in place or move it around.
This kind of “acoustic levitation,” as it’s called, is not exactly new — we see it being used as a trick here and there, but so far there have been no obvious practical applications. Marcel Schuck and his team at ETH Zürich, however, show that a portable such device could easily find a place in processes where tiny objects must be very lightly held.
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Why workers trust robots more than their managers | HRD America
A new report on AI adoption in the workplace suggests employees are now seeing robots in a more positive light – to the point of trusting machines more than they would their human managers.
The study, led by Oracle and Future Workplace, shows 82% of workers believe robots can do certain tasks more efficiently than their leaders. These include:
Much of this enthusiasm over the capability of robots to guide workers has to do with how advancements in AI and machine learning are “rapidly being infused into mainstream business operations,” the report suggests.
This robot employment agency is taking over human jobs
An Israeli robotics company and a Japanese Honda Motor ( HMC ) affiliate are teaming up to roll out AI-controlled robots that companies can hire by the hour. And the robotics entrepreneur behind the endeavor says technology is advancing so rapidly, these devices can take over some complicated tasks from workers.
"The big leapfrog here is that our robots have some intelligence, which means they can actually do a job that is more versatile, and in a much closer way to a human," Ran Poliakine, SixAI Founder & Chairman, told Yahoo Finance's " The Ticker."
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