The inner child in many of us feels an overwhelming sense of joy when stumbling across a pile of the fluorescent, rubbery mixture of water, salt, and flour that put goo on the map: play dough. (Even if this happens rarely in adulthood.)
While manipulating play dough is fun and easy for 2-year-olds, the shapeless sludge is hard for robots to handle.
Battlefield robots getting 'common sense' training before deployment
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As the Pentagon turns to artificial intelligence to aid operations, researchers at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said they are closer to giving robots the "common sense" they need to survive the battlefield.
While AI has seen massive advances during the past decade, modern machine systems are mostly designed to tackle highly specific problems. Current AI models lack the intuition — or common sense — distinct to humans.
Can wall crawling robots help solve our infrastructure problems? | ZDNet
Collapsing bridges, crumbling aqueducts, and corroding highways: Infrastructure is big (and increasingly urgent) news in the U.S.
With federal dollars for infrastructure increasing, the technology could have additional public sector applications. But how big a difference can robots make? Is it too little too late for long-overlooked infrastructure problems?
Flawed AI makes robots racist, sexist | Hub
A robot operating with a popular Internet-based artificial intelligence system consistently gravitates to men over women, white people over people of color, and jumps to conclusions about peoples' jobs after a glance at their face.
The work, led by Johns Hopkins University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of Washington researchers, is believed to be the first to show that robots loaded with an accepted and widely-used model operate with significant gender and racial biases.
Rockets, rovers and robots
The Rise Of Robots In The Oil And Gas Industry | OilPrice.com
Felicity Bradstock is a freelance writer specialising in Energy and Finance. She has a Master’s in International Development from the University of Birmingham, UK.
With digitalization and AI becoming vital components for the modernization of oil and gas, the use of robotics is expected to pick up significantly as energy firms look to innovate.
Tiny Robots Are Fishing For Microplastics | Discover Magazine
There are plenty of fish in the sea. Some are big, and some are small. Some are slow, and some are skittish. Some are bold and bright. And some are actually fish-shaped robots, made to absorb microplastics.
The plastic particulates that pervade our oceans and waterways threaten wildlife, and they typically stick around.
Can Robots Save Amazon When It Runs Out of New Hires?
Amazon's expedient business model may bring a smile to consumers but behind the scenes, it leaves employees and warehouse staffers exhausted and burned out. As a result, Amazon's turnover rates, though not publicly released, are rumored to be notoriously high.
The company, which employs more than 1 million people nationwide, is seeking to delay the need to update its business model to be more employee-friendly by introducing temporary stopgaps such as higher wages and more warehouse automation.
Apptronik Secures $14.6M to Accelerate Commercialization of General-Purpose Robots | National | ...
With customers and robots successfully operating in the market, Apptronik looks to scale its vision to make robots a centralized tool for humanity across critical industries
This funding will go toward fulfilling the company's current customer orders while accelerating the commercialization of one of the industry's first mass-produced humanoid robots capable of working alongside humans.
Universal Robots Unveils New 20kg Payload Cobot | Automation World
Universal Robots redesigned its collaborative robot technology to create the UR20—its longest reach and heaviest payload cobot. Target applications include palletizing and packaging.
Universal Robots ' collaborative robots (cobots) are well-recognized due to their wide use across industry. The distinct visual look of Universal Robots' (UR) cobots, while still familiar, has received an update with the release of the company's new UR20 six-axis cobot.
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