Here at PYMNTS, we've long bemoaned our lack of a robot butler . "The Jetsons," after all, promised us a bright future of flying cars and Rosey the Robot to make our meals, clean our messes, do our laundry and offer up snappy comebacks throughout the whole experience.
Unfortunately, the future has not yet turned out the way the Jetsons promised. Cars are getting technologically impressive, but they don't fly as of yet. And instead of Rosey, we have Alexa, Siri and Google – all of whom are getting better on the witty repartees, but whose skills at cooking, cleaning and general chores leave a lot to be desired.
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Robots Came For Your Jobs, Now They're Coming for Your Vacations: Here's How –
The robots were already coming for your jobs. Now they’re coming for your vacations, too. Robot maker Propelmee will begin testing in mid-September at several UK attractions a virtual tourism robot called Challau .
Propelmee, based in Milton Keynes, UK, hasn’t disclosed yet which UK sites have agreed to participate but said the beta tests would be at outdoor attractions like zoos, castles, and arboretums.
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Propelmee will offer free access to Challau online during its test phase this fall. But the plan for the commercial launch is to charge small fees for the tours. The startup will partly split the fees with the attraction operators as alternatives to ticket revenue.
Hearing gives robot perception a big boost -- GCN
People rarely use just one sense to understand the world, but robots usually only rely on vision and, increasingly, touch.
In what they say is the first large-scale study of the interactions between sound and robotic action, however, the researchers found that sounds could help a robot differentiate between objects, such as a metal screwdriver and a metal wrench.
Hearing also could help robots determine what type of action caused a sound and help them use sounds to predict the physical properties of new objects.
Laser jolts microscopic electronic robots into motion | Cornell Chronicle
Researchers from Cornell and the University of Pennsylvania built microsopic robots that consist of a simple circuit made from silicon photovoltaics – essentially the torso and brain – and four electrochemical actuators that function as legs. When laser light is shined on the photovoltaics, the robots walk.
In 1959, former Cornell physicist Richard Feynman delivered his famous lecture "There's Plenty of Room at the Bottom," in which he described the opportunity for shrinking technology, from machines to computer chips, to incredibly small sizes. Well, the bottom just got more crowded.
While you're here, how about this:
Aero Systems West And Squishy Robotics Mobile Sensing Robots Drop Test - UASweekly.com
We recently partnered with Squishy Robotics which is building some BIG robots that are being used by first responders for persistent HazMat monitoring during emergencies. Their larger robots needed a larger vehicle to airdrop them and their payload cargos, then Squishy Robotics approached Aero Systems West.
We spent several hours with the Squishy Robotics team and assisted them with testing. “It was a successful mission. Both teams had a great experience and learned a lot from this mission “, said Daniel Neal , the CTO of Aero Systems West.
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XYZ Robotics raises $17M for its pick-and-place logistics robots – TechCrunch
Anecdotally, I've been seeing an uptick in interest and raises, particularly the warehouse and logistic categories. Amazon's successful embrace of a growing robotic workforce has no doubt been an inspiration for companies large and small, and VCs are certainly sitting up and taking notice of the phenomenon.
We visited the company's humble Massachusetts offices this year to chat with the company about their pick-and-place tech. XYZ is one of countless companies working to perfect the technology, differentiating itself with its vision system and a dexterous system of swappable grippers that can be replaced on the fly.
Robot Boats Leave Autonomous Cars in Their Wake - WSJ
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