Humankind has a complicated relationship with robots. On one hand, we appreciate how they can do dangerous, repetitive work so we don't have to. Robots don't need vacations or medical insurance. And in areas such as agriculture, where farmers can't find enough people to pick the produce, robots can shoulder (do they have shoulders?) some of those tasks. But polls show that the growing robotization of the planet makes us feel deeply uncomfortable—and threatened.
Of course, these surveys were taken before COVID-19 , when replacing people with robots began to look like a highly practical answer to social distancing, no masks required.
Other things to check out:
A Class in COVID: CT-based robotics company develops robots geared toward interacting with kids
(WTNH) — Folks with autism have trouble reading people’s faces and voices. They don’t get tone and nuance very well. But they do not have trouble with robots. One Connecticut-based robotics company is creating a new breed of robots specifically geared toward interacting with kids on the autism spectrum.
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Pete the robot talks. Jackson’s form of autism did not let him talk much, at least not until Pete moved in a few months ago.
Attabotics raises a $50M Series C for its warehouse fulfillment robots – TechCrunch
The uptick in robotics funding continues this week with a big round for Calgary, Alberta's Attabotics . The warehouse fulfillment startup announced a $50 million Series C, led — interestingly enough — by the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board, Canada's largest pension plan.
It's a pretty hot moment for robotics and automation investing, as more industries turn to technology to replace and augment workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Warehouse fulfillment in particular has been a huge potential growth industry. Amazon's persistence during the shutdown points to a number of ways in which robotics can help an industry keep its lights on even as a highly contagious virus has a profound impact on the human population.
Adaptive Robots: BFFs for Small-Batch Automation
Manufacturing engineers, information technologists, and “smart” robots in flexible manufacturing cells are working ever more closely in manufacturing companies around the world. They are the pillars of a sound effort to fully automate even small order batches—with frequent changeovers—completely untended.
We of a certain age can remember when there were no IT departments at small to mid-size manufacturing companies. All that changed, of course, with the proliferation of computer systems on the “business side” of the operation and certainly as they became more entrenched in shop floor functions as well. Turns out many of us needed not just one IT person but several.
And here's another article:
Robots in the wild – how COVID-19 has brought robots from the factory to the forefront
It’s been exactly 100 years since the coining of the word ‘robot’. But it’s only been recently that advances in sensors, speech recognition and computer vision, combined with shrinking hardware costs, have made robots more widely accessible.
5G is adding further excitement, promising to enable companies across industries to extend their robotics capabilities beyond warehouses and production facilities and into the open world. In fact, 78% of Australian executives surveyed for the Accenture Technology Vision 2020 report say they believe that robotics will enable the next generation of services in the physical world.
A Stronger Skeleton: Wearable Robot Gives Users Super Strength | Voice of America - English
Robots can do heavy, repetitive work and never tire. But they still cannot approach a task with the intelligence and judgment of a human. Now there's a hybrid solution: a wearable robotic exoskeleton that gives humans super power. Matt Dibble has the story
Baemin Introduces an Outdoor Delivery Robot "The City of the Future Became A Reality"
SEOUL, South Korea , Aug. 18, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The service that allows delivery robots to come and go outdoor between restaurants and apartments to deliver food has become a reality for the first time in Korea. Woowa Brothers Corp.
The outdoor delivery robot service newly introduced to Gwanggyo Alley Way can be used by anyone, including residents and visitors. 1,100 residents of apartments and studio flats in Gwanggyo Alley Way can choose the menu and make orders from the restaurants and cafes within the apartment complex by just opening their Baemin applications and scanning QR codes in their houses. Orders can also be made at the plaza within the complex, using QR codes placed on outdoor tables.
Tickeron Launches Groundbreaking New AI Robots Trading Feature
Tickeron selected the best combinations of its AI engines and equities and created AI Robots which record its open and closed trades.
The feature works by scanning user-selected stocks and ETFs every minute to identify possible trading opportunities based on Real Time Patterns and filtering them using other proprietary algorithms. The user can review all closed trades and follow open trades as well as adjust their selections from a given list of stocks. A user can customize the expected number of trades per day, scanning time frame, confidence level and more. The robots then present AI-generated results, shown without
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