Tag Archives: automation

Robot Pharmacists Are Picking Your Medications—Literally

Dispensing medicine is about to get more efficient. New Jersey’s Holy Name Hospital is using robot pharmacists to package, store [...]

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Factory, Schmactory, My Life Sciences Lab Has Been Automated for Years (video)

Sure, you’ve seen factory floors filled with endless rows of robots but the automation revolution reaches far beyond manufacturing. All [...]

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Robots Are Going To Get You Drunk (Video)

What’s the latest strategy the machines are implementing in their quest to take over the world? Plying the humans with [...]

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Boss Recorded Running Stop Sign: The Perils of Public Surveillance

The machines are watching you drive. Video cameras are starting to appear in more cities, working as 24/7 surveillance devices [...]

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5 Axis Robot Carves Metal Like Butter (Video)

Industrial robots are getting precise enough that they’re less like dumb machines and more like automated sculptors producing artwork. Case [...]

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Shawarma Slicing Robots – For all Your Kebab Needs! (Video)

Call it shawarma, doner kebabs, or gyros, robots are ready to serve it on your plate. This Mediterranean dish consists [...]

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StatSheet to Create Its Own Artificial Sports Journalists

A company that has already automated much of sports reporting is set to take the final step towards an artificial [...]

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Robot Journalist Takes Pictures, Asks Questions, Publishes Online

Robots are after my job. Researchers at the Intelligent Systems Informatics Lab (ISI) at Tokyo University have developed a journalist [...]

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Invasion of the Robot Teachers! (Video)

Did you ever have a teacher you could have sworn was a robot? Well yours wasn’t, but your child’s might [...]

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No Humans, Just Robots – Amazing Videos of the Modern Factory

Modern manufacturing isn’t based on human labor, it’s based on the robot. Still, most people cannot grasp the breadth of [...]

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Eureqa – Software to Replace Scientists

The job of a scientist has its fun parts, and its not-so-fun parts. Making new discoveries, understanding the way things [...]

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Martin Ford Asks: Will Automation Lead to Economic Collapse?

Will the future be filled with cool technologies and endless opportunities or will our own creations lead to eventual doom? [...]

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Is Software Set to Replace Sports Journalists?

Sports writers are sharpening their pencils and maliciously eying their laptops as researchers in the Intelligent Informations Lab at Northwestern [...]

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The FlexPicker: Industrial Robot Built for Speed – Video

Over the last few months, there has been very little showing on industrial robots here at Singularity Hub. That is [...]

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