Amazon held an event this morning, and wow-oh-wow did they announce a lot. Smart thermostats! Flying security cameras! Robot companions!
Amazon is building a thermostat , partnering with Honeywell spinoff co. Resideo to get it done. It’ll be Alexa-compatible, of course, allowing you to say things like “Alexa, turn off the AC.
Pandemic pushes Chinese tech giants to roll out more courier robots | 1330 & 101.5 WHBL
BEIJING (Reuters) – More than a thousand robots are set to join the delivery personnel ranks of Chinese behemoths Alibaba, Meituan and JD.com over the next year as the pandemic fuels demand for contactless services.
The firms expect to operate over 2,000 robots between them by 2022, up about four-fold from now, their executives said, encouraged also by falling costs of making robots.
Could these AI robots replace farmers?
Robots powered by artificial intelligence could farm more sustainably than traditional agriculture, claims one Silicon Valley company.
Agricultural technology start-up Iron Ox says that its mission is to make the global agriculture sector carbon negative. And they have just secured €47 million ($53 million) from investors, including Bill Gates.
Researchers in Graz control robots with their thoughts | TheMayor.EU
This is how the experiment works: the robotic arm is in front of a subject with an EEG cap, Source: Baustädter, Graz University of Technology website
The team at TU Graz made a significant breakthrough in neuroprosthetics using thoughts and a non-neurochip method to control robotic arms
Robots may be better than humans, just don't always make them look human - Innovation Origins
A study in engineering psychology conducted by Technische Universität Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin investigated the extent of the use of human-like features in robots. The study shows that human characteristics do not always have beneficial impacts.
The psychologists evaluated thousands of scientific articles for their meta-analysis, using dozens of studies with around 6000 test subjects to research under what circumstances anthropomorphic design can be effective or not.
U. Michigan developing search-and-rescue robots | EdScoop
Researchers at the University of Michigan this month announced new work funded by the National Science Foundation to develop robots that can assist firefighters, search-and-rescue teams and other first responders working in dynamic environments.
According to a university press release , engineering professors are leading a three-year, $1 million project to develop bipedal and four-legged robots that can map and traverse rough terrain where it may be unsafe for humans.
Robots now deliver food, bus tables at Sawatdee - StarTribune.com
Sawatdee, the Upper Midwest's first Thai restaurant that's now in its second generation of family ownership, now appears to be the first restaurant in Minnesota to put robots in the dining room.
Sawatdee owners say that with the tight labor market, DeeDee provides extra help when they really need it and that staff and customers love watching the robots, which started work last week at the Minneapolis and Maple Grove location of the Thai restaurant.
Can football-playing robots beat the World Cup winners by 2050? - BBC News
For football fans around the globe the pinnacle of the sport is the World Cup final. But what if that match was ultimately just the precursor to a game between the best humans and the best robots?
It might sound farfetched, but this is the aim of an organisation that has been running an annual global soccer tournament for robots since 1997.
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