On a rooftop in the Jewish-Arab Tel Aviv neighborhood of Jaffa, a former military technologist and an ex-journalist sit in a transparent bio-dome where their robot is busy learning how to grow food. Flux IoT’s Eddy, a robot measuring less than a foot tall and resembling a life buoy, is built with military-grade sensors and armed with image-processing technology.
Category: Robots
GE, Siemens Vie to Reinvent Manufacturing by Harnessing the Cloud
Germany’s Siemens AG and larger U.S. rival General Electric Co. are duking it out to develop the definitive ‘Internet of Things’ cloud platform for industry.
Report: Robots threaten to replace 80 million jobs in U.S.
Mar. 02, 2017 – 3:38 – Brian Brenberg, economics professor at The King’s College, on how technology will replace manufacturing jobs in the U.S.
How AI Is Changing The Way Companies Are Organized
Artificial Intelligence may still be in its infancy, but it’s already forcing leadership teams around the world to reconsider some of their core structures. Advances in technology are causing firms to restructure their organizational makeup, transform their HR departments, develop new training models, and reevaluate their hiring practices.
You Rang? I Called Hotel Room Service-And Got A Robot
Meet “Botlr,” the robotic butler who can get around on its own and bring you those late-night needs-from drinks to snacks and extra towels. It’s midnight.
Sequoia-Backed China Robot Startup Said to Be Raising New Funds
Makeblock Co., a Chinese maker of DIY robotics parts, is seeking to raise funding at a $200 million valuation as the Sequoia Capital-backed startup expands into classrooms and hobbyist’s workshops globally, people familiar with the matter said. The Shenzhen-based company us seeking to raise about 200 million yuan in a series B round, the people said, requesting not to be named discussing a private matter.
Sequoia-Backed China Robot Startup Said to Be Raising New Funds
Makeblock Co., a Chinese maker of DIY robotics parts, is seeking to raise funding at a $200 million valuation as the Sequoia Capital-backed startup expands into classrooms and hobbyist’s workshops globally, people familiar with the matter said. The Shenzhen-based company us seeking to raise about 200 million yuan in a series B round, the people said, requesting not to be named discussing a private matter.
Apple’s Upcoming iPhone Helps Foxconn’s Gravity-Defying Act
Growing optimism about the next iPhone has propelled Apple Inc. to record highs. Halfway around the globe, a lesser-known Taiwanese company is riding that same wave of euphoria.
CUBAN: Don’t go to school for finance – liberal arts is the…
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban offered a perhaps bleak prediction on the future of jobs in an interview Friday with Bloomberg’s Cory Johnson at the NBA All-Star Technology Summit in New Orleans. Discussing the swiftly evolving nature of jobs due to automation , he noted that across a broad array of industries, robots will replace human workers.
Ford’s Dozing Engineers Side With Google in Full Autonomy Push
As Ford Motor Co. has been developing self-driving cars, the U.S. automaker has started noticing a problem during test drives: Engineers monitoring the robot rides are dozing off.
iRobot Crushes Expectations With a Record Quarter
But with shares of the home-robotics specialist down around 9% in after-hours trading as of this writing, it seems the market isn’t pleased. To be fair, iRobot stock had also climbed more than 80% over the past year and traded near an all-time high leading up to this report, thanks to several stronger-than-expected quarterly performances in 2016.
iRobot Crushes Expectations With a Record Quarter
But with shares of the home-robotics specialist down around 9% in after-hours trading as of this writing, it seems the market isn’t pleased. To be fair, iRobot stock had also climbed more than 80% over the past year and traded near an all-time high leading up to this report, thanks to several stronger-than-expected quarterly performances in 2016.
Orbital ATK sues Pentagon over plans to award a space robots contract to a Canadian-owned firm
Orbital ATK, a Dulles-based aerospace manufacturer, is suing the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency over plans to award a Canadian firm a $15 million contract to build a fleet of space-faring robots capable of repairing government and commercial satellites. Orbital argues the federal program, called the Robotic Servicing of Geosynchronous Satellites, would unfairly compete with its own privately funded effort, a system called the Mission Extension Vehicle 1, backed by at least $200 million from investors.
Japan Homes in on Lost Nuclear Fuel With Fukushima Pictures
New photographs show what may be melted nuclear fuel sitting under one of Japan’s wrecked Fukushima reactors, a potential milestone in the search and retrieval of the fuel almost six years after it was lost in one of the worst atomic disasters in history. Tokyo Electric Power Co.
Elon Musk really isn’t as aligned with Trump on manufacturing…
Musk, the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, is now part of two advisory committees under President Donald Trump: the economic advisory board and the Manufacturing Jobs Initiative . He has met with Trump on two separate occasions, once with tech leaders in New York, and once earlier this week at the White House for a discussion on US manufacturing.
Uber’s Ford Fusions, to be used for mapping, are cleared to go on the road in San Francisco.
They’re back. Five Ford Fusions bristling with rooftop equipment and labeled “Uber Advanced Technologies Center” will hit San Francisco streets starting Wednesday morning, but they will not be functioning as self-driving cars.
Why Trump will find it hard to make American economy greater
In this Monday, Sept. 12, 2016, file photo, a group of self-driving Uber vehicles position themselves to take journalists on rides during a media preview at Uber’s Advanced Technologies Center in Pittsburgh.
Will Robots Usher In A Utopia Or Dystopia?
Peter Frase’s new book imagines multiple scenarios and lays out some touch choices we’re going to have to make. Will our future of robots and autonomous cars turn out to be a dystopia or a utopia? That’s the question that author Peter Frase grapples with in his new book, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism .
Wall Street’s Most Famous Quants Fed Up With JPMorgan Soothsayer
Or anybody else who tells you quant managers regularly whip up bouts of pain and suffering for stock investors. Funds with programs that follow trends and sell like robots are getting smaller and simply aren’t big enough to overwhelm the $24 trillion U.S. equity market.
Intel Joule shipments blocked in key countries, pending certification
If you can’t find Intel’s Joule developer boards in your country, it’s because shipments have been held up. Intel’s Joule 570x and 550x are powerful computer boards that can be built as a PC, or be used to build robots, drones, or smart devices.
At CES, voice assistants speak up
In the very near future, instead of controlling your gadgets by pressing buttons or tapping on screens, you may just talk to them. Intelligent assistant technology like Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Echo is starting to spread widely.
Automation Trepidation
Decades from now, when historians look back on 2016, they’ll of course take note of the momentous votes on both sides of the Atlantic. But if they’re interested in symbolism, they might find that an even more profound turning point occurred over the English countryside in early December, when a little flying robot buzzed though the air, alighted on a lawn and gently deposited a package for a happy customer.
These Are The Robots Who Are Fulfilling Your Christmas Orders
Partly in response to an improving labor market that’s made seasonal warehouse worker shortages a staple of year-end news coverage for the past several years, more logistics operations are turning to robots to make operations more efficient. “What we find a lot of our customers are experiencing challenges in, especially as you think about what happens to an operation as you enter into the holiday season, is quite simply there’s not enough people to do the work that’s required,” says Matt Rendall, cofounder and CEO of Clearpath Robotics .
Japan’s Rust Belt Counting on Robonomics to Run Assembly Lines
A withering factory town in Japan’s Rust Belt is looking for revival through a dose of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s “robot revolution.” Kadoma’s population has declined 13 percent as the nation ages, prompting mergers among elementary schools and emergency services departments.
iRobot’s Roomba 980 Dominates a New Competitor
The primary task of robotic vacuum cleaners might seem pretty straightforward — to navigate any given room and clean up the mess — but it turns out that’s easier said than done. Andto the benefit of home robotics specialist iRobot Corporation In an effort to compare the latest and greatest high-end robotic vacuums last week, theRossen Reports team over at Today featured both the Dyson 360 Eye and iRobot’s Roomba 980 in their “Does It Work?” special series.