Elenoide the android was made to shake your hand. She looks like a Madame Tussad's rendition of a prim fifth-grade teacher. She's dressed in a salmon cardigan with scalloped edges, a knee-length striped skirt, and a wig made of ashy blonde human hair. Her hands are warmed by heating pads hidden beneath the palms. During experiments, she wears white butler gloves.
Handshakes are not valued equally among all the social and cultural groups that practice them. According to Yuta Katsumi, a cognitive neuroscientist who currently researches memory but has conducted several studies on people's evaluation of handshakes, everyone he studied appreciated a handshake. They were taken as a sign of goodwill and trustworthiness and business competence.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Rwanda has enlisted anti-epidemic robots in its fight against coronavirus - CNN
Today, at Kanyinya Treatment Centre, @UNDP_Rwanda handed over five (5) Smart Anti-Epidemic Robots to the Government of Rwanda, represented by the Ministry of Health and the Ministry of ICT and Innovation. pic.twitter.com/PVeTMYJHQu
Robots patrol Singapore parks and streets to enforce social distancing
Developed by local technology company Otsaw , the fully autonomous, four-wheeled O-R3 robot is being used in a number of the city's parks, and comes equipped with sensors and wraparound cameras that record and send data to the authorities in real time, although a government spokesman has said the robot would not be used for enforcement.
“The robot patrols the reservoir and broadcasts messages in four languages, reminding visitors to refrain from gathering or loitering at the reservoir parks and to adhere to safe-distancing requirements."
COVID-19 Impact: A Mix of Challenges and Opportunities | Waste Sorting Robots Market 2020-2024 |
Technavio has been monitoring the waste sorting robots market and it is poised to grow by 2009.00 units during 2020-2024, progressing at a CAGR of about 7% during the forecast period. The report offers an up-to-date analysis regarding the current market scenario, latest trends and drivers, and the overall market environment.
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Amazon studies anti-collision method for robots to increase throughput | Supply Chain Dive
Increasing throughput for robots would help Amazon's efforts to increase the overall throughput for its fulfillment and sort centers. If robots hit more goal locations in a warehouse, items can move throughout a location faster. The paper doesn't define "goal location," but Amazon uses drive units in the picking process and in sorting centers, so it could be a move to a picker or a move to a chute where a package needs to be deposited.
Existing MAPF techniques take approaches that include replanning paths every time a defined period of time elapses or replanning only if an agent has a new goal location. But it can take a lot of computing power to plan an entire collision-free route for dozens of robots, so the researchers suggest just avoiding collisions over a certain time span and not the entire trip.
Service Delivery Robots Helping People Social Distance in Frisco – NBC 5 Dallas-Fort Worth
It’s become clear the pandemic is not a quick fix. That’s why businesses are looking at longer-term ways to limit contact between people to prevent the further spread of the virus. This is where contactless technology comes into play.
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If you're out and about in Frisco lately, you've probably seen something a little odd-looking making the rounds.
"There's like three or four of them running around our neighborhood and I was like, what in the world!" said Frisco resident Lisa Hampshire. "It's amazing just to see the technology and how much it's changed over the last few years."
Packaging Robots Market to reach US$ 7,616.5 Million globally by end of 2027– Coherent Market
SEATTLE, May 27, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Autonomous machines used for packaging can be termed as packaging robots. Such robots aid in reducing part package time, save labor cost, and can lift larger packages.
The global packaging robots market is estimated to account for US$ 2646.1 Mn in 2019 and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 14.1% over the forecasted period 2020-27.
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Increasing labor cost is expected to boost growth of the global packaging robots market . For instance, according to Eurostat, in the fourth quarter of 2019, hourly labor costs rose by 2.4 % in the euro area and by 2.7 % in the EU-27 compared with the fourth quarter of 2018.
Delivery robots at BGSU inspire congressman | News | sent-trib.com
U.S. Rep. Bob Latta, R-Bowling Green, left, talks with Bowling Green State University President Rodney Rogers while standing next to a Starship robot Tuesday morning.
While receiving a cup of coffee from a Starship Technologies delivery robot at Bowling Green State University, U.S. Rep. Bob Latta, R-Bowling Green, introduced his new bill, the Advancing Unmanned Delivery Services Act.
There are currently 30 of the six-wheeled little delivery robots in use at BGSU. The delivery robot program was introduced at the university about two weeks before the coronavirus mandates that required the university to switch to entirely online courses.
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Robots struggle to shake hands. Now, they might not have to. https://t.co/q9XzoYGvlI WIRED (from San Francisco/New York) Wed May 27 21:18:02 +0000 2020
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