The dream of robots and intelligent machines that can perform a wide array of tasks has been around in the common visions and fantasies of people for centuries. Machines that can do the work of people without having the failings of people is one of those long-sought visions of the future.
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Increasingly, a number of companies are turning to robotics to help with many human centered tasks. These robots either are there to augment their human counterparts or fully replace them at certain tasks. Physical robots are highly desired in many industries, especially to perform tasks often referred to as the four "D's": Dirty, Dangerous, Dear (or Expensive), and Dull (or Demeaning).
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Meet the Delivery Robots That Will Soon Invade Our Sidewalks | Digital Trends
The robots are coming. Fortunately, they're bringing groceries and takeout with them. Welcome to the world of delivery robots: one of the fastest-growing and most competitive markets in robotics.
The idea behind these bots is simple: The customer orders an item, that item is loaded into or onto the robot, and then the robot travels to the customer to drop it off. But that's not stopped multiple intrepid companies from exploring their own innovative approaches to the challenge.
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Which Way to the Fridge?
"Common sense says that if you're looking for a refrigerator, you'd better go to the kitchen," Chaplot said. Classical robotic navigation systems, by contrast, explore a space by building a map showing obstacles. The robot eventually gets to where it needs to go, but the route can be circuitous.
Previous attempts to use machine learning to train semantic navigation systems have been hampered because they tend to memorize objects and their locations in specific environments. Not only are these environments complex, but the system often has difficulty generalizing what it has learned to different environments.
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Op-Ed: The real reason we're afraid of robots - Los Angeles Times
Make no mistake — AI does pose many real dangers to us: to our personal privacy and security, to our democracy and to the future of the economy. These are all very good reasons to watch it closely and regulate it aggressively. Previous technological revolutions — whether driven by steam, electricity, atomic energy or CRISPR — have raised similar challenges. Yet in popular opinion, the AI risk is greater than those and different in kind.
People don't merely worry that the new technology could cause accidents or fall into the wrong hands. With AI, people worry that it will acquire autonomous agency and outsmart and overthrow its human masters. The question is why.
White Castle Robot | Miso Robot Fry Cook
Despite this being Flippy's first official fast food rodeo, the autonomous robot already has a built-in fanbase. The robot has worked in Dodger Stadium to provide Miso with prelimary deployment data.
Some detractors have pointed out that a robot fry cook is basically a worst-case scenario for the humans currently doing that work, but White Castle maintains that the pilot with Flippy is not just about enhanced production speeds. Flippy is meant as an added layer of health and safety in the cooking process to protect workers and customers from the spread of harmful food-borne illnesses, as well as COVID-19.
This flying robot can glide, flip and hover - CNN
(CNN) Engineers have designed a robot with flapping wings, which can perform nimble movements in the air, hovering, darting, diving and recovering like a bird or an insect.
Time to Build Robots for Humans, Not to Replace - ReadWrite
Thinking about the future of robots and autonomy is exciting; driverless cars, lights-out factories, urban air mobility, robotic surgeons available anywhere in the world. We’ve seen the building blocks come together in warehouses, retail stores, farms, and on the roads. It is now time to build robots for humans, not to replace them.
Humans are incredibly good at adapting to dynamic situations to achieve a goal. Robotic and autonomous systems are incredibly powerful at highly precise, responsive, multivariate operations. A new generation of companies is turning their attention to bringing the two together, building robots to work for humans, not replace them, and reinventing several industries in the process.
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