Officials have long pushed a vision of a hyper-efficient, tech-driven "smart nation," but activists say privacy is being sacrificed and people have little control over what happens to their data.
Singapore is frequently criticized for curbing civil liberties and people are accustomed to tight controls, but there is growing unease at intrusive tech.
Robots give Greece's postal service speed boost | 1330 & 101.5 WHBL
ATHENS (Reuters) – There's a new addition to Greece's postal service: a fleet of yellow robots sorting through the mail.
Fifty-five small, four-wheeled autonomous mobile robots — or AMR's — powered by artificial intelligence, glide around Hellenic Post's sorting centre in Athens, speeding up an often arduous process.
And finally... Hand-built by robots - Scottish Construction Now
Gilbane Building Company will make the jump from pilots to full deployment of an on-site robotics platform it has been developing with NeXtera Robotics .
“A robotic solution has to do a thing that people don’t want to do, at a time they don’t want to do it, at a frequency that wouldn’t be a hindrance,” said Mike McKelvy, CEO and president of Gilbane .
Should Robots Replace Teachers? | EdSurge News
Last week brought one of those surprising new gadget announcements from a tech giant, with Amazon unveiling a home robot it calls Astro, a rolling contraption about the size of a small dog with a screen for a head and a cup holder so it can bring its owner a drink.
One person who has dug into that topic is Neil Selwyn, a research professor of education at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia. He's the author of the book, "Should Robots Replace Teachers?
These robots competed in DARPA's cave course | Popular Science
Bots like these could fight in the next wars or help rescue people in challenging and dangerous underground environments.
Underneath Louisville, Kentucky, about halfway through its prize-winning run, a robot called ANYmal C hit a false wall. It backed up, walked forward, and then hit the wall again, continuing for a few minutes. Each time the suspended wall yielded a little, then swung back into place.
A new model to synthesize emotional speech for companion robots
Researchers at Hitachi R&D Group and University of Tsukuba in Japan have developed a new method to synthesize emotional speech that could allow companion robots to imitate the ways in which caregivers communicate with older adults or vulnerable patients.
"When people try to influence others to do something, they subconsciously adjust their speech to include appropriate emotional information," Takeshi Homma et al explained in their paper.
Algebra, Robots, and Diversity | Bowdoin College
“There are a ton of different ways to think about it,” said Assistant Professor of Mathematics Eric Ramos , when asked about his latest research, “but in essence it’s about motion planning: Imagine you have a factory using robots and they’re only allowed to move
UiPath Toughens Software Robots As Core Platform Widens
PENRYN, ENGLAND - MAY 09: Engineered Arts prosthetic expert Mike Humphrey checks on Fred a recently ... [+] completed Mesmer robot that was built at the company's headquarters in Penryn on May 9, 2018 in Cornwall, England.
We're building a world full of robotics. Hardware-based robots emerged from Hollywood fiction as early as the 1970s. They initially started working in 'jobs' inside automotive manufacturing plants and other similar industrial or civil engineering application use cases.
ROEQ Boosts Payloads and Lifting Capabilities of Autonomous Mobile Robots with Two New Products |
ROEQ's new top module for MiR's autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) adds muscle to the AMRs, enabling transport of up to 1500kg. (Photo: Business Wire)
By boosting autonomous mobile robot (AMR) payload capabilities and adding flexibility to lifting applications, two newly launched top module products and accompanying accessories from pioneering MRE specialists ROEQ enable end users to achieve their productivity goals and overcome labor
From Facebook outages to furniture robots – Annenberg Media
On today's show... USC's most diverse freshman class, a closer look into Title IX, and a robot for building furniture. All that and more, from where we are.
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