Warehouse robots are finally reaching their holy grail moment: picking and sorting objects with the dexterity of human hands.
Amazon has robotic arms that can pick and sort cumbersome items like headphones or plushy toys before they've been boxed. FedEx has piloted a similar system, which it uses in some warehouses to sort mail of various sizes.
Should Local Police Departments Deploy Lethal Robots? | The New Yorker
The federal policies have contributed to the militarization of local police departments. The risk is that, once departments are in possession of military-grade weapons, these arms have the possibility of being deployed even if they are disproportionate to the situation at hand.
"Something like ninety-nine per cent of law enforcement is not those worst-case scenarios," John Lindsay-Poland, of the American Friends Service Committee, a Quaker social-justice organization, told me. "But when they have this equipment, it tends to get used in some of the less-worst cases.
Robots are coming—and it doesn't look pretty for workers.
The economists examined the effects of industrial robots on the Chinese labor market using data from over 15,000 families and found that the workforce struggled to "adjust" to the dramatic changes brought by robotics.
"Robot exposure led to a decline in labor force participation (–1%), employment (–7.5%), and hourly wages (–9%) of Chinese workers," they wrote. "At the same time, among those who kept working, robot exposure increased the number of hours worked by 14%."
El Camino College community members vie to build the best robots – Daily Breeze
Susana Haing and Ashley Tumanjan, with their space car that they built and programmed at El Camino College, which they then displayed during the schools Robotics Exhibition, in Torrance on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
Joseph Dean, president of the 3D printing club at El Camino College, assembles a drone called, Blu Ravin, during the schools Robotics Exhibition, in Torrance on Wednesday, December 7, 2022. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG)
Former Twitter janitor said someone from Elon Musk's team told him that robots would replace ...
This week, janitors who were contracted to work at Twitter headquarters through a company called Flagship joined a picket line in front of the building, saying their contract with the company was not renegotiated.
BREAKING: SEIU Local 87 Janitors at Twitter HQ went on strike at 6am today. Picket line starting at 12 noon, 1355 Market St. in San Francisco. #TakeOnTheTwit pic.twitter.com/IluPUtLAaY
Food Tech Weekend Podcast: Talking Food Robots With Clayton Wood
Our guest this week on our weekly food tech news wrapup is Clayton Wood, the CEO of pizza robot startup Picnic. We talk about the latest food tech news and hear Clayton’s view on where things are going in the world of food robots.
Rehabilitation robots market: Growth opportunities led by ABB Ltd. and AlterG Inc. - Technavio
Grubhub continues rolling out campus delivery robots | Chain Store Age
Online and mobile food-ordering and delivery platform Grubhub is expanding its use of autonomous delivery robots at colleges nationwide.
Grubhub is partnering with Kiwibot, a last-mile robotic delivery company, to provide robot delivery services on college campuses.
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