Tag: human
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Robots in the Automotive Towing Business: Revolutionizing Car Retrieval
The integration of robotics in various industries is a testament to the continuous innovation within technology. The car towing business, which has been a predominantly manual endeavor, is now reaping the benefits of robotic engineering. Utilizing robots to tow luxury cars, especially from confined spaces, promises enhanced efficiency and precision.
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Evolving Workplaces: The Rise of Robots in Healthcare
In the ceaseless quest for superior healthcare, a new era is unfolding – one underpinned by the seamless integration of robotics. This burgeoning revolution, however, isn’t about replacing the human touch but enhancing it. Every corner of our healthcare system, from surgery to rehabilitation and from diagnostics to patient interaction, is being reshaped by sophisticated…
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XTEND acquires drone inspection specialist Performance Rotors
XTEND, the developer of XOS, a human-guided autonomous operating system, or human-machine interaction system, has acquired Performance Rotors, a Singapore-based drone inspection specialist. XTEND says the move will boost its ability to offer human-guided, remote interactive operations in a range of inspection scenarios, and grow its global business. Financial terms of the transaction were not…
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The Rise of Sustainable Automation: Innovations and Best Practices in Fashion and Manufacturing
Have you ever thought about how the fashion industry is responsible for roughly 10 percent of global carbon emissions? But here’s the good news – believe it or not – there’s a shift happening toward more sustainable practices; and automation is playing a huge role in this change. Let’s dive into how innovations in fashion…
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Bison Gear ‘transforms’ blanking operation with robotic automation
Bison Gear & Engineering says its implementation of robotic automation has “transformed the company’s gear blanking operation”. Bison Gear, a specialist in power transmission industry and a high-mix, low-volume manufacturer, highlights production gains with robotic automation. Bison incrementally introduces automation solutions and targets specific steps in the production process where automation can have the greatest…
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Groundlight raises $10 million to launch ‘natural language powered computer vision’ service for robotics
AI startup Groundlight has launched its visual understanding service based on natural language instructions. Groundlight says its service “enables any developer to understand images programmatically using simple English language instructions and just a few lines of code”. Groundlight says its platform can be integrated into applications such as industrial automation, process monitoring, retail analytics, video…
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Advanced Robotics and Automation: Reducing Car Accidents and Saving Lives on the Road
Car accidents are a leading cause of death and injury worldwide, with millions of people affected by them each year. Despite the best efforts of law enforcement, education campaigns, and technology advances, the numbers continue to rise. However, recent developments in robotics and automation technology have the potential to reduce the frequency and severity of…
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Flexiv unveils robotic masseur
Flexiv, a provider of general-purpose robotics solutions, has developed a fully automatic massaging application for its Rizon 4 robot. Powered by artificial intelligence, computer vision, and force feedback, the robot can provide a massage “equal to any human masseur”, boasts the company. Able to target specific areas of the back or larger areas in general,…
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Will a robot take my job? Notre Dame researcher says this view is overly pessimistic
With the impact of industrial robots on the US labor markets in the past two decades, and an ever-increasing presence of machine-driven technology (such as artificial intelligence and ChatGPT), many employees have feared that one day robots will take their jobs. Not necessarily so, according to research recently published by Yong Suk Lee, an assistant…
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Factory Visit: Investment bankers tour client’s robot-filled machine shop
Investment and automation specialists John Slater and Jorge Maceyras, of Focus Investment Banking, make a factory visit to a client of theirs, and find that robotics is integral to the operation. Do you have any robots? When we posed that somewhat naïve question to the CEO of an extreme high precision machine shop in 2014,…