We were promised robots everywhere — fully autonomous robots that will drive our cars end-to-end, clean our dishes, drive our freight, make our food, pipette and do our lab work, write our legal documents, mow the lawn, balance our books and even clean our houses.
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This is the question I've been trying to investigate while building my own robotics company (a currently stealth company named Chef Robotics in the food robotics space) as well as investing in many robotics/AI companies through my venture capital fund Prototype Capital. Here's what I've learned.
Quite a lot has been going on:
Jitterbug: Roaches and robots shake it to transition between movements in tricky terrain |
IMAGE: Johns Hopkins engineers created an obstacle course to see what movements cockroaches used most to overcome tall beams. view more
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Animals in their natural environments effortlessly switch up their movements to hunt, escape from predators and travel with their packs every day.
By chasing cockroaches through an obstacle course and studying their movements, the Johns Hopkins engineers that brought you the cockroach robot and the snake robot discovered that animals' movement transitions corresponded to overcoming potential energy barriers and that they can jitter around to traverse obstacles in complex terrain.
Marketing To Robots: Why CMOs Need To Start Thinking About Business To Robot To Consumer (B2R2C)
Traditional marketing is all about the consumer. Marketers spend endless hours creating engaging storytelling and elaborate campaign activations in order to connect with the consumer. Marketers don't just want to sell a brand; they want the brand and customer to have a relationship. Brand loyalty is the ultimate goal.
But, this traditional method of marketing is about to change, and marketers will need to add Business to Robot to Consumer (B2R2C) to their list of duties.
LG, Woowa Bros. and KIRIA to Develop Robot Waiters
Consumer electronics giant LG is teaming up with Woowa Bros and the Korea Institute for Robot Industry Advancement (KIRIA) to develop robot waiters for restaurants, The Korea Times reported over the weekend.
This deal expands a partnership formed between LG and Woowa earlier this year . According to the Times, the two companies have “joined a project chaired by KIRIA, a Daegu-based state-run agency that supervises Korea’s robot industry.”
This may worth something:
We can make robots from gelatine and other edible ingredients | New Scientist
"The question is, could we develop a material that is, at the same time, very reliable while you use it, but once triggered can completely degrade?" says Martin Kaltenbrunner at Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria.
Kaltenbrunner and his colleagues created a gel out of ingredients that are safe to eat, including gelatine – which can be fully degraded by the body – citric acid to stop bacterial growth and glycerol for softness and to prevent dehydration.
How Robots Are Succeeding and Failing in the World of Logistics | 2020-06-15 | ASSEMBLY
3… 2… 1… Pittsburgh researchers and companies want to get American robots and people back to the
Alterra Robotics launches new autonomous security robot | RoboticsTomorrow
Alterra Robotics, a silicon valley-based startup aiming to transform the physical security industry, has launched a new line of autonomous security robots as the adoption of robotics accelerates across the sector.
Happening on Twitter
Where are all the robots? https://t.co/CIWub75JgC by @RajatBhageria TechCrunch (from San Francisco, CA) Sun Jun 14 15:16:00 +0000 2020
GoodRead Where are all the #robots? https://t.co/rGmWObL8BS #fintech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning… https://t.co/HQGaGQ6yRG SpirosMargaris (from All Over the World) Sun Jun 14 16:15:55 +0000 2020
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