Market trends and business perspectives
What do burger flippers, call center workers, and many car wash workers have in common?
Over the past decade, a vast majority of their jobs have been taken over by robots. In fact, the more repetitive, routine, and simple a task is, the more susceptible that job is to takeover by an automated device.
Whether you call a machine that makes fast-food items on order at a rapid pace a robot or an automated food preparation device doesn’t matter. [Read more…] about How to Land a Robot-Proof Job
Singapore is one of the fastest rising nations in Asia.
It’s a tourist and business hotspot all-in-one. With a ton of tourist attractions and job opportunities, it shouldn’t be surprising that many people are considering moving to Singapore.
If you’re interested in becoming one of the nation’s permanent residents, then we’d like to help you out with a few tips. [Read more…] about How You Can Easily Become One of Singapore’s Permanent Residents
Startup company Graze has unveiled a new solar-powered autonomous commercial lawn mower, which it plans to launch by 2021.
The company says has now expanded the design to increase efficiency and maintenance speed for mid-to-large sized commercial lawns, enhance cutting blades to perfect trim precision, add new sensor capabilities to increase safety, improve GPS based mapping and computer vision, while optimizing intelligent and applicable insights through advanced machine learning capabilities.
Analyst reports have found landscaping services in the US generated $101.7 billion in revenue in 2020, while commercial landscaping services (maintenance and general services) have been projected to range between 40 and 60 percent of the overall landscaping service industry in the US. [Read more…] about Graze unveils solar-powered autonomous commercial lawn mower
Technology research and development company Cambridge Consultants has unveiled what it describes as a “dexterous robot with the human touch”. (See video below.)
Breakthrough innovation specialist Cambridge Consultants has developed Hank, a robot with flexible robotic fingers inspired by the human hand.
Hank uses a pioneering sensory system embedded in its pneumatic fingers, providing a sophisticated sense of touch and slip, meaning it can emulate the human ability to hold and grip delicate objects using just the right amount of pressure.
[Read more…] about Cambridge Consultants unveils ‘dexterous robot with the human touch’An EU-backed project called the European SMEs Robotic Applications, or Esmera, has launched a competition to find solutions to industrial end-user challenges.
Esmera says it is looking for real-life problems in which providers would like to introduce a robotics solution.
Eight of these challenges will be included in an open call in September 2019, to which SMEs all over Europe will apply to solve them. [Read more…] about Esmera launches new robotics competition – each winner to receive more than €200,000
