Professor Stefana Parascho (right) and Isla Xi Han stand beneath a concrete and glass brick prototype built at the Embodied Computation Lab (ECL) in Princeton University's School of Architecture, in January 2020.
Two Princeton researchers, architect Stefana Parascho and engineer Sigrid Adriaenssens , dreamed of using robots to simplify construction, even when building complex forms.
"We want to use robots to build beautiful architecture more sustainably," said Adriaenssens, an associate professor of civil and environmental engineering and the director of the Form Finding Lab .
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Zurich | Robots will destroy 85 million jobs at mid-sized to large businesses over the next five years as the COVID-19 pandemic accelerates changes in the workplace likely to exaggerate inequalities, a World Economic Forum (WEF) study has found.
Surveys of nearly 300 global companies found four out of five business executives were accelerating plans to digitise work and deploy new technologies, undoing employment gains made since the financial crisis of 2007-8.
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iRobot's third quarter results surged as online orders jumped along with retail sales as demand for Roomba and Braava robots remained strong.
The company is looking to become a smart home platform with the launch of its Genius Home Intelligence system. As previously reported, iRobot is looking to be more of a software platform for the smart home using data from its fleet of robots .
Wall Street expected iRobot to report third quarter revenue $314.7 million with non-GAAP earnings of $1 a share.
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They build extreme vehicles for Hollywood movies—fast and powerful ones for the U.S. military, and helpful ones for first responders and people with disabilities.
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"It was all over the news last week, national news, LA fire department uses robot for the first time in fire. Guess where that was? Right here in Maine," Geoff Howe, CEO of Howe & Howe Technologies, said.
Howe and Howe Technologies in Waterboro is where brothers Mike and Geoff Howe have built robotic vehicles for decades. Twelve years ago, they designed one that could help fight fires.
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