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Tag Archives: automation
Better, Faster, and Cheaper – These Robots Are Invading Car Manufacturing Plants
Does anyone doubt that it really is just a matter of time before human assembly line workers are a thing [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, assembly line, automation, ford, GM, manufacturing, NASA, robot, robotics, Robots
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SushiBot Serves Up An Order Of 3,600 Per Hour
Talk about “fast food,” a Japanese company just unveiled its SushiBot at the World Food and Beverage Expo in Tokyo. [...]
Posted in Gadgets, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged automation, robot, robotics, Robots, sushibot
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Amazon Goes Robotic, Acquires Kiva Systems, Makers Of The Warehouse Robot
In a move that makes so much sense one wonders why it didn’t happen sooner, Amazon has acquired Kiva Systems, [...]
Posted in Genetics, Robots, Singularity
Tagged Amazon, automation, kiva systems, mick mountz, robotic warehouse, warehouse
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Meet The Author Of “Robots Will Steal Your Job, But That’s OK”
Growth is a good thing, right? It’s the buzzword on seemingly every politician’s lips, the answer to our economic woes. [...]
Posted in AI, Art, Longevity And Health, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged ai, automation, economy, federico pistono, robot, robotics, Robots, robots will steal your job but that's ok
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A Drop-In Solution for Replacing Human Labor? Kawada’s Nextage Robot
Automation poses a real threat to the factory worker – two armed robots like Nextage can perform many of the [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged automation, Hiro, HRP, human labor, Kawada, Nextage, robot labor
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Tased From Above! New Robot Copter To Begin Patrolling Our Skies (video)
Forget the idea that weaponized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are only for military operations in wars fought in far off [...]
Posted in AI, Gadgets, Robots, Singularity, Video Central
Tagged automation, robot copter, robotics, shadowhawk, telepresence, texas, Unmanned aerial vehicles, vanguard defense industries
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Now Robots Drink Wine Too – Scientists Create ‘Robot Sommelier’
Robots get to have all the fun. In this case what I’m calling a robot is the electronic tongue created [...]
World’s Largest Electronics Manufacturer Foxconn Wants 1 Million More Robots In 3 Years. Bye-bye Human Labor
Cheap labor isn’t cheap enough for the world’s largest electronics manufacturer. Terry Gou, the CEO of Foxconn recently told employees [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged automated factory, automation, China, Foxconn, labort, robot vs human, Terry Gou
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This Humanoid Robot’s Comin’ At You Like A Spider Monkey! (video)
If you’re going to get past the Christiano Ronaldos of the world, you’re going to have to run fast. In [...]
An Inside Look Into The Amazon.com Warehouses (video)
What do you do when the CEO wants you to build a delivery system for pretty much anything that will [...]
Robots Enter Crippled Japanese Reactor For First Time
The trend to put robots in harm’s way, instead of humans, continues. On April 17th a pair of robots entered [...]
Look Out Humans – This FRIDA Robot From ABB Will Take Your Factory Job
If a human worker can do it, why not a robot? Swiss robotics giant ABB recently unveiled a new concept [...]
Posted in Robots, Video Central
Tagged ABB, automation, automation domination, FRIDA, industrial robots, small business
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Robots Take Over Hospital Pharmacy as Human Pill-Counting Talents Go To Waste (VIDEO)
A new pharmacy supplying medicine to the UCSF Medical Center is currently under the control of a handful of Swiss [...]
Posted in Longevity And Health, Robots, Video Central
Tagged automation, pharmaceutical robotics, robotics, Robots
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Robotic Warfare Draws Closer as Robot Jet Fighter Passes Two More Flight Tests
At first glance the X-47B might look like the portly little brother of the B2 Stealth Bomber, but among unmanned [...]
Holding Signs on the Side of the Road – Robots Take That Job, Too
You’ve surely seen them: the men and women standing alongside a highway holding a sign that entreats you to “Act [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged automation, Interglobe Advertising and Motion, job loss, Karl Wondra, SignDancer, SignDancerPro
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Robot Domination – Look At The Making of a Memory Card
Every product in your home tells a story. Listening to the memory card in your camera or computer will give [...]
A Robot Stole My Job: Automation in the Recession
Are robots creating a jobless recovery? A recent forecast by the UCLA Anderson School of Business echoes a common refrain [...]
Japan’s Robot Picks Only the Ripest Strawberries (video)
It takes more than a green thumb to be a great farmer, super-human vision helps as well. The Institute of [...]
AI Journalist Covers Every Division I College Basketball Team
It’s a good day for sports fans, but a weird one for sports writers. North Carolina-based startup Statsheet has launched [...]
Posted in AI
Tagged ai, automation, college basketball, Division I, journalism, journalist, NCAA, Robbie Allen, Statsheet
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Dairy Farms Go Robotic, Cows Have Never Been Happier (video)
Be careful, humans: cows and robots have learned how to work together – who knows what this union could produce [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged animal friendly, animal rights, Astronaut A4, astronaut robot, automation, cattle, cows, industrial agriculture, Lely
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Hospital To Lay Off Workers, Hires Robots Instead
Is your company feeling the pains of the recession? Robots may be the cure. El Camino Hospital in Silicon Valley [...]
The Robot Hospital of the Future, Coming Soon To Scotland
From the first day the Forth Valley Royal Hospital opens in August it will be a shining example of the [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged automation, Forth Valley Royal Hospital, hospital robots, Larbert, robot pharmacist, Scotland, Stirlingshire
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Robotics Industries: We’re Creating Jobs, Helping the Economy
The Robotics Industries Association wants to remind the American public that automation can create jobs for people just as easily [...]
Posted in Robots
Tagged automation, Jeff Burnstein, RIA, robotics industries association
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Jazz Legend Pat Metheny’s Robot Orchestra Project (video)
Pat Metheny has already worked with most of the world’s most talented musicians, so his newest collaboration project had to [...]
Posted in Art, Robots
Tagged automated music, automation, music, orchestrion, pat metheny, robot band, robot orchestra
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Computers To Take Human Jobs, Shutdown Global Economy? Get Ford’s Book Free
I got my copy of The Lights In The Tunnel for free, and now you can too. Martin Ford’s recent [...]