Security robots are slowly becoming a more common sight in malls, offices, and public spaces. But while these bots are often presented as replacements for human security guards — friendly robots on patrol — they're collecting far more data than humans could, suggesting they're more like mobile surveillance machines than conventional guards.
A new report from OneZero sheds some light on the scope of the data collection, featuring marketing material and contracts between Knightscope and various city councils. Both show that the main purpose of these robots is gathering data, including license plates, facial recognition scans, and the presence of nearby mobile devices. It's the sort of constant low-level surveillance that only a machine can perform.
Not to change the topic here:
Amp Robotic's robots are helping to tackle the recycling crisis
Inside a sprawling recycling center in Florida, as bottles, cans, boxes, and other recyclables move down conveyor belts, 14 different robots use artificial intelligence to identify each material and automatically sort it, moving twice as quickly as humans doing the same job. The center, called Single Stream Recyclers, is one of the latest to install technology from Amp Robotics , a Colorado-based startup that wants to help the recycling industry deal with its current challenges.
Elon Musk’s Worst AI Nightmare Could Be Mini Cheetah Robots | Observer
MIT's Mini Cheetah robot is capable of running, walking, jumping and turning. MIT Biometric Robotics Lab
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The company has been making robots since 1992, and its astute credo is: "Changing your idea of what robots can do." One of those ideas is to have a robot do parkour, jumping over logs and leaping steps without breaking pace.
Sure, this is nothing new; humanoid robots kicking human ass have long been on our fearful radar since the days of Fritz Lang's 1927 classic, Metropolis .
7 Key Robot Applications in Automotive Manufacturing - Robotics Business Review
For more than 50 years, the automotive industry has been using robots in their assembly lines for a variety of manufacturing processes. Today, automakers are exploring the use of robotics in even more processes. Robots are more efficient, accurate, flexible, and dependable on these production lines. This technology has allowed the automotive industry to remain one of the most automated supply chains globally, and one of the largest users of robots.
With thousands of wires and parts in every vehicle, it takes a complex manufacturing process to get components to where they need to be. Here are several robotic applications that are crucial to an efficient assembly line:
Many things are taking place:
Boeing abandons its failed fuselage robots on the 777X, handing the job back to machinists | The
After enduring a manufacturing mess that spanned six years and cost millions of dollars as it implemented a large-scale robotic system for automated assembly of the 777 fuselage, Boeing has abandoned the robots and will go back to relying more on its human machinists.
Boeing said Wednesday it is adopting a different approach that “has proven more reliable, requiring less work by hand and less rework, than what the robots were capable of.”
AMP Robotics raises $16M for recycling robots and AI
DENVER — AMP Robotics Corp. announced today that it has raised Series A funding of $16 million, which it plans to use to scale up operations and develop artificial intelligence products to make recycling more economical.
In 2017, China restricted imports of waste from the U.S., saying they didn’t meet contamination standards. As a result, the need for economical and environmentally sustainable domestic recycling rose as trash piled up.
Helping Delivery Robots Find Your Front Door | Innovation | Smithsonian
Delivery robots, once a sci-fi fantasy, became a reality this year, rolling along university campus sidewalks and suburban California streets , bringing pizza and Amazon packages right to customers’ front doors. They're increasingly being seen as a solution for "last-mile delivery"—the part of the supply chain where goods are moved from a local transportation hub or warehouse to their final destination.
But how do robots find the door? It’s not always simple. GPS can take the robot to the right address, but it can’t tell it whether the door is to the left of the garage or at the end of the garden path.
Japanese Scientist Insists His Robot Twin Is Not Creepy | Synced
Robots you invented rank No.1 and No.9 in the IEEE list of "creepiest robots." How do you feel about that?
Obviously the persons who gave my Telenoid robot that ranking just evaluated it on appearance rather than actually interacting with it. Telenoid has become very popular in many other media, as it can encourage conversations with adults, elderlies especially. I think if people interact with my robot nobody would say it's creepy.
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We have a robot called "Ibuki." The idea was to create a child android for a new approach we call "socially developmental robotics." An adult android is expected to have adult intelligence, otherwise, people won’t want to talk with it. But it is not so easy to give proper knowledge to an adult android. We thought if the android is a child, everybody will treat it gently and try to teach new things to it.
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Scoop: Details on the Knightscope robot software, along with how police are able to use the included facial recogni… https://t.co/1MVB9QkAZR davegershgorn (from New York) Wed Nov 13 20:07:47 +0000 2019
These robots, which range from stationary kiosks to roving bulbous obelisks on wheels, collect immense amounts of d… https://t.co/Lc3rS7MbpB ozm Wed Nov 13 20:29:21 +0000 2019
The slides—presented in full in this article—were presented to the city council of Huntington Park, CA, in June 201… https://t.co/BL5oGkP9cR ozm Wed Nov 13 20:30:33 +0000 2019
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