Robots haven't replaced warehouse workers yet, but they're here — and they need some human supervision.
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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Roving robot Lucy doesn't just zoom around your home vacuuming up dirt and bits of last night's dinner. It also roams around each room to identify any unwanted visitors, with two cameras and built-in surveillance software.
And sporting this spiffy and alert robot, startup Trifo has just raised $15 million Series B from investors that include Yidu Cloud, Tsinghua AI Fund and Matrix Partners. This brings the Santa Clara-based startup funding to $26 million, and the capital will be used for further product development and expansion into European and American markets.
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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.
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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.
VW Developing Autonomous Charging Robots | 2020-01-02 | Ratchet+Wrench
Jan. 2, 2020—Volkswagen recently unveiled its plans to create autonomous robots that would go around parking garages to charge EVs using traveling battery packs, reports USA Today .
The robot would find your car, attach a charger to it and then move on to other vehicles while your battery juices up.
Once your car battery is fully charged, the robot would come to collect the "energy storage device" and take it back to a nearby charging hub, according to the report.
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Robots at CES 2020: Robo-cats, sex tech, pizza makers and more - CNET
We can't wait to be surprised and delighted by the bots on display at the show. Ahead of CES kicking off next week, here are three things we're particularly excited to see.
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One of the best reasons to visit Vegas is the sheer array of excellent food on offer, and at CES there'll be one more option as Seattle-based company Picnic brings its pizza-assembly robot to the Las Vegas Convention Center .
Picnic will reveal the exact location of its robots on its website ahead of CES -- we'll race you to the front of the queue.
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Amazon robots move along the warehouse floor with packages before finding the proper delivery chute, transporting packages from workers to chutes that are organized by ZIP code.
NORTH HAVEN, Conn. — Robots haven't replaced warehouse workers yet, but they're here — and they need some human supervision.
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.
Trump's tweets are helping Croydon robot maker Macron Dynamics boom. Now it needs workers.
Even this deep into the national economic boom, little Macron Dynamics in scuffed-up Croydon plans to double its plant capacity and hire 20 more people. That is, if it can find the right building and workers for its $18-an-hour entry-level manufacturing jobs.
"When Trump said 'we are going to tax everything coming into the U.S.,' our business went" — at this point, Macron Dynamics CEO Anthony "Tony" Cirone pauses for drama and then gestures toward the ceiling with his index finger.
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