By 2050, the global population aged 65 or more will be nearly double what it is today. The number of people over the age of 80 will triple, approaching half a billion.
Toyota Research Institute (TRI) , which was established by Toyota Motor Corp.
Gill Pratt , Toyota's Chief Scientist and the CEO of TRI, believes that robots have a significant role to play in assisting older people by solving physical problems as well as providing mental and emotional support.
A West Coast port worker union is fighting robots. The stakes are high
The sight last year of dozens of gigantic container vessels anchored for weeks off the coast of Los Angeles rocked the shipping industry and magnified the worldwide disruption of supply chains.
Hoisting that cargo, from ship to shore and onto anxiously awaiting destinations near and far, is the job of dockworkers belonging to the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU) — and who presently are embroiled in a logjam of their own.
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A collaborative team of researchers from Cornell and the U.S. Army Research Laboratory has used hydrodynamic and magnetic forces to drive a rubbery and deformable pump that provides soft robots with a circulatory system. This system mimics the biology of animals in nature.
SLAMcore raises $16 million to give spatial understanding to robots and the metaverse
SLAMcore , a developer of vision-based location and mapping for robots and autonomous machines, has raised $16 million in Series A capital.
The company says the funding will allow the business to rapidly capitalize on its proven technology which combines AI with consumer-grade cameras, sensors and processors to solve the complex challenges of mapping and navigating for a wide range of autonomous machines and devices.
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“Our robots are largely used for the development of passenger and commercial vehicles and are regularly used for durability, misuse and driver assistance system testing,” Craig Hoyt, AB Dynamics’ business development manager, said in a statement.
Improved road safety has become a global priority, with the United Nations driving a multi-stakeholder collaboration. At the recent UN General Assembly on Road Safety, Secretary General António Guterres said, “Safer roads promote sustainable development.
Chess robot grabs and breaks finger of seven-year-old opponent | Chess | The Guardian
Moscow incident occurred because child 'violated' safety rules by taking turn too quickly, says official
Last week, according to Russian media outlets, a chess-playing robot, apparently unsettled by the quick responses of a seven-year-old boy, unceremoniously grabbed and broke his finger during a match at the Moscow Open.
AI in Agriculture: Computer Vision, Robots, and Scales for Pigs - Unite.AI
This introduces one more area where computer vision algorithms can help.
Millions are being invested in plant phenotyping and imaging research. The main task here is to collect large sets of data on crops (usually in the form of photographs or three-dimensional images) and compare phenotype data with plant genotype.
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