(CNN) Using robots in dangerous police situations is common these days, but one police department has been quietly testing a special robot that looks like a dog.
Not to change the topic here:
Recycling robots make green viable again | ZDNet
"Over the last few years, the industry has had their margins squeezed by labor shortages and low commodity prices," explains Shaun Maguire, partner at Sequoia, which led the recent fundraising round. "The end result is an industry proactively searching for cost-saving alternatives and added opportunities to increase revenue by capturing more high-value recyclables, and AMP is emerging as the leading solution."
The problem is especially urgent with recent news that China will no longer be accepting waste from the U.S. As I've written , even when China was taking our recyclables the process was extremely inefficient, the bales often poorly sorted.
Grocery-carrying robots are coming. Do we need them? – The Denver Post
BOSTON — The first cargo-carrying robot marketed directly to consumers is on sale this holiday season. But how many people are ready to ditch their second car to buy a two-wheeled rover that can follow them around like a dog?
Corporate giants like Amazon, FedEx and Ford have already been experimenting with sending delivery robots to doorsteps. Now Piaggio, the Italian company that makes the Vespa scooter, is offering a stylish alternative to those blandly utilitarian machines — albeit one that weighs 50 pounds (23 kilograms) and costs $3,250.
New York warns FedEx to keep their delivery robots off the city's streets - CNN
Quite a lot has been going on:
Advanced Navigation raises $13M for guidance for robots, driverless cars
Advanced Navigation today said it has raised $13 million in a Series A round to fund a “significant” global expansion for its business and accelerate research and development programs for “transformative” robotics, navigation, and sensor technologies.
Engineers Xavier Orr and Chris Shaw founded Advanced Navigation in 2012 to commercialize their thesis research into inertial navigation based on neural networks. Their first product met the market with great success, according to the company . Advanced Navigation expanded rapidly, adding a portfolio of artificial intelligence-based navigation offerings.
Here's Where Robots Are Replacing Workers Fastest - Government Executive
Robots are displacing younger, less-educated, and minority workers in the Midwest manufacturing industry at the highest rates, a new report shows.
However, the findings also show that a strong economic recovery over the past decade has saved many jobs and slowed automation in the United States.
The report shows that robots have not yet brought the dire nationwide effects that many have warned about, but the impact of robots varies across groups of workers, regions, and industries.
Leading robotics VCs talk about where they’re investing – TechCrunch
The Valley’s affinity for robotics shows no signs of cooling. Technical enhancements through innovations like AI/ML, compute power and big data utilization continue to drive new performance milestones, efficiencies and use cases.
Despite the old saying, “hardware is hard,” investment in the robotics space continues to expand. Money is pouring in across robotics’ billion-dollar sub verticals, including industrial and labor automation, drone delivery, machine vision and a wide range of others.
The Case for Sending Robots to Day Care, Like Toddlers | WIRED
Human babies don't seem to make a good amount of sense, evolutionarily speaking. They're helpless for many years, and not particularly helpful either—they can't pitch in around the house or get a job. But in reality, these formative years are critical for training nature's most remarkable brain: With the simple act of play, children explore their world, adapting themselves to a universe of chaos.
"It may be that what we really need is robots that have childhoods," she says. "What you need is kind of a little, helpless, not-very-strong robot that can't break things very much, and it's actually being taken care of by somebody else. And then have that turn into a system that is capable of actually going out in the world and doing things."
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