Within 10 minutes of its birth, a baby fawn is able to stand. Within seven hours, it is able to walk. Between those two milestones, it engages in a highly adorable, highly frenetic flailing of limbs to figure it all out.
That's the idea behind AI-powered robotics. While autonomous robots, like self-driving cars, are already a familiar concept, autonomously learning robots are still just an aspiration. Existing reinforcement-learning algorithms that allow robots to learn movements through trial and error still rely heavily on human intervention. Every time the robot falls down or walks out of its training environment, it needs someone to pick it up and set it back to the right position.
In case you are keeping track:
Lesson of the Day: 'Should Robots Have a Face?' - The New York Times
As automation comes to retail industries, companies are giving machines more humanlike features in order to make them liked, not feared.
In this lesson, you will learn about the growing presence of robots in the workplace and their impact on the human workers around them. In a Going Further activity, you will consider the future of robots in the workplace and design your own robot.
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Do you envision something futuristic and otherworldly — or humanlike? Is your picture of a robot fantastical and perhaps a little frightening, or is it familiar and comforting?
Each industrial robot displaces 1.6 workers: report | Supply Chain Dive
The number of robots per worker has more than doubled in the last decade to reach 1.81 robots for every 10,000 workers as of 2017, according to a study by The Century Foundation . The same study, which focused on the U.S., found that robots mostly displaced employees in the American Midwest who were mostly young, less-educated, minority workers.
Oxford Economics argues any displacement would be offset by the productivity gains and price decreases seen as a result of automation.
OnePlus robots chuck snowballs at 120mph to show off 5G - CNET
OnePlus is holding an "interactive snowball fight," starting March 9. People will be able to remotely control a Snowbot, which OnePlus says can hurl snowballs at 120mph, in an actual robot snowball fight.
We've created 5G-connected, snowball-firing robots (they fire at 120+ mph; we're not messing around).
We're calling them Snowbots. And you can control them from your phone to shoot Snowbots controlled by other OnePlus fans, from March 9. Get ready. #OnePlus5GSnowbots
And here's another article:
Low Skilled Jobs: Do Robots Help the UK After Brexit? – automatica Survey Released
"Over many years, the UK has attracted workers from other countries, with businesses preferring to hire people rather than invest in automation equipment," says Mike Wilson, Chairman of the British Automation and Robot Association (BARA). "After Brexit, businesses have to ensure that they use their workforce effectively - robot automation being an obvious solution."
"The UK's working population already welcomes robots, to do the dirty, dull and dangerous work: 73 percent want the machines to take monotonous routine jobs off the hands of employees," says Dr. Martin Lechner, study director of automatica's trend index. "About 80 percent want robots take on tasks with hazardous materials and carry out work that is harmful to health, like lifting heavy loads."
Robots Ready for Fierce Competition at Bloomington High School South – WBIW
(BLOOMINGTON) – On March 7th and March 8th, thousands of students, parents, teachers, and industry professionals will convene at Bloomington High School South for the FIRST ® Robotics FRC competition. More than 3,600 high school teams worldwide will participate in the FIRST ® Robotics Competition this year.
FIRST ® INFINITE RECHARGE has high school robotics team students around the world eager to capture a championship. After the game was revealed back in January, students have been brain-storming and drawing up designs for robots that will compete at several events this season. Teams had about 8 weeks to build their robots and now the competition season is underway.
Robots 'rumble' in SD214 competition to test students' grasp of engineering, technology - Chicago
Competitors in the annual Township High School District 214 Robot Rumble work for months building a robot to operate precisely as directed, only to use it to disable their opponents.
Students representing 44 teams from 14 schools, primarily from the northwest suburbs, operated their robots to crash into the opposing machine Friday and Saturday at Prospect High School in Mount Prospect. The object was to see which one was most durable.
"You want to be the last one standing and cause as much damage as you can to the other team," Prospect freshman Ivan Ramirez of Mount Prospect said.
Do more robots mean a safer warehouse? | Supply Chain Dive
Fulfillment robotics pledge to make workers' jobs easier, but whether those jobs are safer is open for debate — even among those making and selling the technology.
The notion that warehouse automation will bring about an immediate thunderclap of job losses is largely debunked. But a question quickly replacing the one of mass layoffs is how will automation, specifically robotics, change the nature of warehouse work?
In addition to increasing fulfillment speed and picking accuracy, many robotics vendors claim robots also make workers' tasks more ergonomic and less repetitive. But, recent media reports regarding the frequency of reported injuries at Amazon facilities, and especially Amazon Robotics facilities, suggest robotics and worker welfare are not as correlated as early adopters may have hoped.
Happening on Twitter
Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) | Ellen Wengert https://t.co/44bZr2dX9g guardian (from London) Mon Mar 02 23:22:35 +0000 2020
This robot taught itself to walk. https://t.co/mocZW0rkPU https://t.co/qFbxjAsDUv techreview (from Cambridge, MA) Tue Mar 03 20:23:53 +0000 2020
This #robot taught itself to #walk entirely on its own https://t.co/7TZBHWUAgb #fintech #AI… https://t.co/ouC7r8F2Ct SpirosMargaris (from All Over the World) Mon Mar 02 11:42:24 +0000 2020
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