Final round of the Cube Crazy Robots competition at Robotics Day at Duffield Hall on December 10th, 2019.
Cheers and shouts could be heard pouring out of the Duffield Atrium as students yelled and supported nearly fifty teams jostling to claim the title of Cornell's most skilled robot.
Cornell Robotics held its annual "Robotics Day" Tuesday, as students across campus came to watch nearly 150 students square off in a variety of robotic competitions and exhibitions.
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Amazon Warehouses Could Get a Hand From an Innovative Robot - Barron's
A new robot could soon replace humans in warehouses operated by Amazon.com and others. And if you're in the market for a small robotic dog, you can buy one now for about the price of a midsize car.
Boston Dynamics, a robotics company owned by Japan's SoftBank , is working on a robot called Handle that it hopes to launch in the next 18 months, said Marc Raibert, founder and CEO of Boston Dynamics. Raibert was speaking on stage at the WSJ CEO Council in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday.
Robots or Cobots: Which to Choose? | Machine Design
If it wasn't already clear to manufacturers that the use of robots is on the rise, the numbers leave little doubt: Millions are installed annually, according to the International Federation of Robotics.
Industrial robots have long been used to replace human workers in performing tasks that are dangerous, dirty, or repetitive. These robots are often large, bulky, caged machines doing the heavy lifting in packaging and palletizing.
Collaborative robots (aka cobots) are designed to work safely alongside humans in shared workspaces. These robots, with their increased flexibility and dexterity, can complete more delicate tasks conventional robots cannot, such as polishing fragile materials in production processes.
Join us at CES 2020 to Discuss How Robots Will Save the World - Robotics Business Review
The track, which will be held in Room N253 of the North Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, will begin at 9 a.m. with an opening session titled "A Radically Hopeful Vision of the Future," by Ken Goldberg, the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley, and a professor of industrial engineering and operations research.
With the headlines about robots and AI stealing jobs, replacing drivers, doctors, and lawyers, many believe that the "singularity" is coming soon, with AI and robots posing an existential threat to humans. In his session, Goldberg will propose an alternative to the singularity that is more inclusive – Multiplicity, in which diverse groups of humans work together with diverse groups of machines to innovate and solve problems.
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'Athletic' AI Takes Robots to Next Level, Boston Dynamics Founder Says - WSJ
WASHINGTON—The increasingly sophisticated robots emerging from the lab at Boston Dynamics reflect the company's focus on "athletic" artificial intelligence, founder and Chief Executive Marc Raibert said.
Robots that can repair themselves and self-augment / Boing Boing
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Makr Shakr Launches “Automation Stipend” to Retrain Humans Impacted by Robots
One of the biggest questions looming over the future of an automated workforce is what happens to the human workers replaced by robots? Makr Shakr , the company behind the robot bartender Toni, has come up with one solution: help pay for training for the humans being replaced.
Makr Shakr, in partnership with State University of New York (SUNY), today announced the launch of its “Automation Stipend.” For every bartending robot sold, Makr Shakr “assigns a $1,000 monthly stipend to a selected person whose profession might be impacted by the automation” according to the press announcement. The stipend is meant to help provide training “with special attention to the relation between tech and the food and leisure industries.”
Alphabet X's new Everyday Robot project wants to build robots that can learn - The Verge
Today, Alphabet's X moonshot division (formerly known as Google X) unveiled the Everyday Robot project , whose goal is to develop a "general-purpose learning robot." The idea is that its robots could use cameras and complex machine learning algorithms to see and learn from the world around them without needing to be coded for every individual movement.
The team is testing robots that can help out in workplace environments, though right now, these early robots are focused on learning how to sort trash. Here's what one of them looks like — it reminds me of a very tall, one-armed Wall-E (ironic, given what the robots are tasked to do):
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