Robot-made coffee and burgers in SF? How automation is affecting jobs
A robot barista carries a cup at Cafe X in San Francisco, Calif., on Friday, Jan. 25, 2019. Cafe X is a company that has robot baristas operating in three locations in San Francisco. (Doug Duran/Bay Area News Group)
Robot makes ‘Snakes and Ladders’ horrifyingly literal
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 1-5, 2018, Madrid, Spain
Spear-toting robot can guard coral reefs against invasive lionfish
common lionfish (pterios miles)
This home-building robot can lay more than 1,000 bricks an hour — and construct a home quicker than a human
The Hadrian X can lay 1,000-plus standard bricks per hour, the company’s director of corporate affairs, Kiel Chivers, told Business Insider.During test runs, the Hadrian X has been able to construct the frame of a small house in as few as two days. The company is uncertain when it will start selling the machines.
Flippy the Burger-Flipping Robot Just Secured $10 Million in Funding
Flippy Raises another 10 million dollars!
Segway Robotics’ Loomo wants to be your little buddy
Personal Robot for personal mobility with AI. Will it be your next companion to the park, the conference, the airport or just disappear like segway did after initial hoopla. Is this a techie toy or would mass market adapt it?
2018 Will be an Emotional Year for Robots
“There’s research showing that if you’re smiling and waving or shrugging your shoulders, that’s 55% of the value of what you’re saying – and then another 38% is in your tone of voice,” describes el Kaliouby. “Only 7% is in the actual choice of words you’re saying, so if you think about it like that, in the existing sentiment analysis market which looks at keywords and works out which specific words are being used on Twitter, you’re only capturing 7% of how humans communicate emotion, and the rest is basically lost in cyberspace.” Will 2018 be the year of emotional AI?
THIS AI-FORTIFIED BOT WILL BUILD THE FIRST HOMES FOR HUMANS ON MARS
Thanks to new AI upgrades, Justin can think for itself. Unlike most robots, which have to be programmed in advance and given explicit instructions for nearly every movement, this bot can autonomously perform complex tasks—even those it hasn’t been programmed to do—on a planet’s surface while being supervised by astronauts in orbit.
Robomart is the latest startup to try and unseat the local convenience store
There was ‘Bodega’ and now’Robomart’. Will they supplement the convenience stores or try to disrupt the corner store? While looks like its another glorified kiosk, how will it replace the emotional connection the residents in the neighbor hood have in walking into it, having small talk and greeting others in the neighborhood and exchanging niceties etc. Will it have the impact Amazon had on retail or just become another failed idea rejected by the market completely?
LG’s friendly robots will help travelers at Seoul airport
LG is introducing two version of robots – one for information and one for cleaning! Have we not been changing in terminals and running around to figure out where the next gate is ? More of these robots can definitely help ! Would they come next in the walmarts next so we can ask where this particular product is and probably scan a tag?
Bloomberg: Sex Robots Might Make Men Obsolete, Would Gift One to a Daughter
Will Robots replace men? Will humans form same emotional connections in future with robots as AI progresses? Would quarter of millennials date a robot in future? Heterosexual, Homosexual, Metrosexual next Digisexual in horizon?
LG Electronics to Sell Robots to Replace Hotel, Airport, Supermarket Employees
The first one is a server robot that can deliver food and drinks to customers at hotels and airport lounges. It can essentially replace the work done by the waitstaff and be able to do it around the clock,” CNBC explained. “Second is a porter robot that can handle check-in and check-out services at hotels and carry luggage to rooms.”Finally, LG’s third new robot is made to work with customers at a supermarket, telling them the price of products and then guiding them through the aisles. There it starts – Robo Sourcing!!
A CLEVER NEW ROBOTIC ‘MUSCLE’ SERIOUSLY LIFTS, BRO
‘Forget the jerky humanoid robots that can terminate you’. ‘Soft Robots’ are coming soon!! Stay tuned!
2017 Data: Pew Research Shows People Fear Robots Taking Jobs
This is the new norm. Are you ready for the future and are you educating yourself to ride our the wave of automation, robot future? Join us !!
Robot-led home tours are a thing now
Not bad use case right? Often times the personnel in the sales department are busy with other customers or they just point you out to got to this unit and you are left clue less! These can answer all the questions without getting irritated or agitated !!
This humanoid robot works out (and sweats) like we do (or should)
Holy cow! This humanoid can work out (push ups, calf rises)!! Excited? Confused? Scared where this is all going?
What the faces of our robots tell us about ourselves
How do we design a robot to look and feel like a human? We do design our robots to look like us and act like us. Guess we are fascinated by our interaction with a mechanical replica of ourselves and what all it can do. Will be rest until we create a mirror image of ourselves?
ROBOTS ARE FUELING THE QUIET ASCENDANCE OF THE ELECTRIC MOTOR
Whats driving these robots? Electrical motors called actuators.. Actuators make robots leap and run and do backflips and lift 500-pound pipes (different robots, mind you, thank God. The lower the cost of these actuators become and they are easy to use we will have tipping point in robotics. Like personal computers which reached masses, we would probably see personal robots of several use cases? A robotic arm to hand you things, a robotic arm to hold your drink? Future looks bright and convenient!
A humanoid robot carried the Olympic torch in South Korea
What next robot athletes and robot Olympics?
Elon Musk’s Tweet Gives Creepy Insight Into Future Of Humanoid Robots
Will we have runaway robots in future? Definitely there needs to be regulation or we could see a Frankenrobostein once we get these to learn and improvise!
WHEN ROBOTS INVADE THE KITCHEN – Robo Chefs!!
Chef, I want Pasta Primavera for dinner asap while I couch surf! Would this in future cause trouble for take out places as a robot can whip up your Italian food one day, Chinese the next and pizza on game nights? Would it become a standard in future in all kitchens. Definitely it could change what we mean by ‘cooking’ – by human or a robot?
WHAT IS A ROBOT?
Good Article! When is machine considered a robot? robot is a machine that senses and acts on its world. And soon enough, our world will be full of them. Just probably not in, you know, a The Day the Earth Stood Still kind of way.
HaptX promises to make your virtual hands feel like real ones
When the company says “realistic touch,” it means the gloves let you feel the shape, texture and even temperature of whatever you’re holding — you can even feel if an object is hard or soft.Robotics
BOSTON DYNAMICS’ ATLAS ROBOT DOES BACKFLIPS NOW AND IT’S FULL-TILT INSANE
Humanoids aren’t supposed to be able to do this. It’s extremely difficult to make a bipedal robot that can move effectively, much less kick off a tumbling routine. The beauty of four-legged robots is that they balance easily, both at rest and as they’re moving, but bipeds like Atlas have to balance a bulky upper body on just two legs.
Ford tests exoskeleton to ease strain on factory workers
Certain Ford employees do these tasks up to 4,600 times per day and up to a million times per year, the automaker noted in a press release. The non-powered EksoVest, designed by Ekso Bionics in partnership with Ford, helps lift five to fifteen pounds, easing the strain on users’ upper bodies and preventing some fatigue. That assistance could help prevent workplace accidents resulting from tired muscles and minds.
THIS ROBOT SNAKE MEANS YOU NO HARM, REALLY
This kind of sensitivity will be essential for robots going forward, as they work alongside humans. (It’s far more likely that robots will help humans at their jobs, not displace them.) Great example of robots can supplement humans rather than displace them in jobs.
Walmart Is Putting Shelf-Scanning Robots in Over 50 U.S. Stores
Bad news for the already low paid Walmart employees. Good news for consumers through. How many times have you walked thorough aisles for a particular product to find it is stocked out. More drama if robots are walking aisles along with the various peoples in Walmart and if they can actually get to where they want to.
Saudi Arabia bestows citizenship on a robot named Sophia
What next ? A country of X million and Y robots? Which robot qualifies and which does not? Interesting futuristic times we are stepping into!
Are We Ready for Intimacy With Androids?
Human Robot Interaction is a hybrid discipline: part engineering, part AI, part social psychology and cognitive science. The aim is to analyze and cultivate our evolving relationship with robots.
INSIDE SYNTOUCH, THE MAD LAB GIVING ROBOTS THE POWER TO FEEL
This robot finger doesn’t feel the world like yours, which relies on nerves. Embedded in a dome shape are 19 super-sensitive electrodes, over which a skin of silicon is stretched. The space in between is then injected with saline. So when you press the finger against something, the electrodes measure the changing resistance through the saltwater.
Meet Flippy, the burger-flipping robot poised to transform fast food
Pasadena-based Miso Robotics is rolling out kitchen assistant robots like Flippy that will make fast-food kitchens more efficient.
