Automation and digitization were already spreading to more factory floors and job sites. Then the pandemic hit.
"It was trial by fire as we went through Covid," said Mark Bulanda, executive president of automation solutions for Emerson, a manufacturer of systems that automate factory processes.
The latest jobs report shows the manufacturing sector grew at its fastest level since the pandemic began, jumping by 50,000 positions. However, there are still about half a million fewer employed manufacturing workers than there were a year ago. The question is how many of those jobs will come back — and how many have been permanently disrupted by digital processes.
Healthcare Collaborative Robots Market - Forecast to 2026
Brooklyn, New York, April 09, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- According to new market research published by Global Market Estimates, the Healthcare Collaborative Robots Market will grow with a high CAGR during the forecast period [2021 to 2026].
Healthcare collaborative robots are automated systems deployed in the medical industry to perform various tasks. Starting from the administrative task, lab testing, patient care, and surgical aids. These cobots require an hour to fill the gap between the ongoing medical industry burden and staff shortage.
Boston Dynamics robot used in French military training | Boston.com
Boston Dynamics's robot dog has been in a variety of places and scenarios, from jumping rope to an unauthorized, "provocative" paintball game . Now, Spot is also being prepared to take on the battlefield.
Photos shared on Twitter by French military school École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr show Spot's bright yellow form alongside armed French soldiers.
But not to worry, Spot wasn't in actual danger. The robot canine was part of some training and was used for reconnaissance, according to The Verge , which translated parts of news source Ouest-France's article to English.
Forget Boston Dynamics. This robot taught itself to walk with AI | MIT Technology Review
A pair of robot legs called Cassie has been taught to walk using reinforcement learning , the training technique that teaches AIs complex behavior via trial and error. The two-legged robot learned a range of movements from scratch, including walking in a crouch and while carrying an unexpected load.
But can it boogie? Expectations for what robots can do run high thanks to viral videos put out by Boston Dynamics, which show its humanoid Atlas robot standing on one leg, jumping over boxes, and dancing . These videos have racked up millions of views and have even been parodied . The control Atlas has over its movements is impressive, but the choreographed sequences probably involve a lot of hand-tuning. (Boston Dynamics has not published details, so it's hard to say how much.)
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When Tim Swift mentioned offhand to other mechanical engineers he was going to start a company that built consumer robotic wearables out of plastic and inflatable air bladders, they typically laughed. Everyone knew, back then in 2014, that robots were made of metal.
"I was trained on how to build robots and I was taught from very early in that cycle that you don't build robots with plastics — you build them with metals — and you don't build them with air, you build them with other things," he said.
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Humans, robots and warehouses: Maximizing productivity, lowering costs - FreightWaves
According to Rick Faulk, CEO of warehouse robotics firm Locus Robotics , there is about 20 billion square feet of warehouse space around the world. An additional 3 billion square feet will be built in the next few years. And yet, 95% of that space is completely unautomated.
Warehouse automation has rapidly accelerated in recent years, and the COVID-19 pandemic has quickened that pace, but there is a lot of room to grow, and plenty of automation solutions still to be developed.
The Scientific Reason We're Awful to Human-Like Robots | IE
And it seems this seemingly merciless response to what might be simple misalignment could reflect the attitudes of human customers, who are more awful to robots resembling them than those that don't. When self-reflection is absent, forgiveness is definitely not in the cards for clumsy service industry machines. The question, then, is plain: why do we treat them like this?
Bolton said people can come to presume that humanoid robots possess more advantages over non-human-resembling devices — but the team found resemblance to humans doesn't improve their chances of maintaining good relations with humans upon making a mistake. On the contrary, the more robots look like us, the greater the chance people will become annoyed at service failures — especially cases involving slow or inattentive service.
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