Anticipating a continued boom in online orders even after the pandemic ends, grocery titans including Walmart, Kroger and Albertsons are investing millions in high-tech solutions.
In other words, robots to pick the goods customers order online and ways to scale up and speed up the chains’ online abilities.
Sound like a crazy future? In a way, having our bread and milk picked for us, full-service style, is a return to the past. A century ago, grocery shopping consisted of handing a list to a clerk, who fetched everything.
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Over the past few years, many scientists have started to investigate how to bridge these two worlds, and to study in what ways quantum mechanics can prove beneficial for learning robots, or vice versa. Several fascinating results have shown, for example, robots deciding faster on their next move, or the design of new quantum experiments using specific learning techniques.
Within an international collaboration led by Philip Walther, a team of experimental physicists from the University of Vienna, together with theoreticians from the University of Innsbruck, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the Leiden University, and the German Aerospace Center, have been successful in experimentally proving for the first time a speed-up in the actual robot's learning time.
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New Mexico Economic Development Grant Aids 'Build With Robots' Expansion Into R&D, Exhibit
The robotics team builds a robot, to make schools, factories and other work places safer. Courtesy/EDD
A Breezy One robot disinfects the Albuquerque International Sunport . These robots can disinfect 100,000 sq. ft. in less than an hour, often using a fog disinfectant developed at Sandia National Laboratories. Courtesy/EDD
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ALBUQUERQUE — "Build with Robots", an Albuquerque company designing and manufacturing smart robots to disinfect and sanitize large areas, such as schools and airports, has been awarded a State of New Mexico economic development grant to expand its workforce and ramp up production, Cabinet Secretary Alicia J. Keyes announced Friday.
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Robot Ump: Minor League Baseball To Experiment With Rule Changes : NPR
Birmingham Barons outfielder Luis Basabe moves toward a ball in front of the vintage scoreboard in 2019 at Rickwood Field, America's oldest baseball park, in Birmingham, Ala. Jay Reeves/AP hide caption
Umpires will have a little help behind home plate in some minor league games this season – from a "robot ump."
Major League Baseball announced Thursday that select games in the Low-A Southeast will use a robot to help call balls and strikes. The use of the technology, called the Automatic Ball-Strike System, will also "ensure a consistent strike zone is called, and determine the optimal strike zone for the system," according to MLB.
Are U.S. Special Forces Quietly Using Armed Robots?
The Modular Advanced Armed Robotic System (MAARS) has been tested by the U.S. military for around ... [+] fifteen years but never deployed. U.S. Special Forces may have quickly fielded their own alternative.
It seems Special Forces had an urgent need for an armed robot and bypassed the existing Army projects. An R&D budget document from the Office of the Secretary of Defense reveals that Special Operation Command developed a Lightweight Remote Weapons System (LRWS), a miniature version of the CROWS turret:
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