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Robotics research has been making great strides in recent years, but there are still many hurdles to the machines becoming a ubiquitous presence in our lives. The journal Science Robotics has now identified 10 grand challenges the field will have to grapple with to make that a reality. 
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The e-commerce giant has won two patents for a tracking technology that can nudge a human hand in the right direction — toward a warehouse bin, say.
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WHY IT MATTERS: wearables offer the potential to help track our every move, providing a trove of information to improve health and work. Already there is proof that Apple watches can detect heart attacks. If this patent from 2016 by Amazon is built into a product and deployed, work productivity can improve as well. Of course this may have serious implications for privacy or work requirements, but we must get used to it. With robots falling in price and AI letting them do more and more human-level tasks, the future of work is bound to be measured much more closely than it is today.
Detailed description of the patent filing: https://www.geekwire.com/2018/amazon-wins-patents-wireless-wristbands-track-warehouse-workers/ Apple watch detects heart attacks: http://fmcs.digital/blog/killer-use-case-for-wearables-study-apple-watch-accurately-detects-heart-problems/ State of Robot industry 2017: http://fmcs.digital/blog/3m-robots-in-2020-40b-industry-they-are-used-mostly-in-autophone-manufacturing-but-we-should-expect-more-industries-to-use-them-in-near-future-stats-china/
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Peter Singer, an expert on future warfare at the New America think-tank, is in no doubt. “What we have is a series of technologies that change the game. They’re not science fiction. They raise new questions. What’s possible?"
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WHY IT MATTERS: taking the human out of the equation seems to be the future of warfare, with countries quest for AI dominance the most probable cause to trigger WW3 in the coming years.
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1.7 million items a day across its four fulfilment centres
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WHY IT MATTERS: On the heals of recent technology deals between Ocado and Carrefour in France and Sobeys in Canada, this paper and others explain how the technology works. HUMAN-LESS WAREHOUSE The technology is akin to a huge vending machine, where products are stored in compartments that robots can access when required. More important is that this technology can apply to any product you can buy online, not only grocery. In fact, figuring grocery item picking is probably the most difficult product category - with 3 temperature items (room, cold, frozen) and lots of small and delicate products (think tomatoes and meat). This will help reduce the cost and errors of web order fulfilment, and potentially speed delivery to make 1hr delays possible. When coupled with robot manipulation and self-driving delivery vans, the days of human-free order preparation and delivery is fast approaching. RETAIL ARMAGGEDON This will revolutionize the way we think of retail and distribution by making the store useless. The value chain will become produce-warehouse-home.
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WHY IT MATTERS: robots present a solution for the skilled labour shortage and requirements to cut production times and reduce costs in an era of personalization. Read the report for more data.
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Aparicio says the research is exciting because the reliability of the arm offers a clear path toward commercialization.
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WHY IT MATTERS: AI is useful for more than making recommendations of Netflix movies to watch. Here it is applied to the issue of robot hand grasping and the video shows amazing result with robots able to close an amazon shipping box container. wow!
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WHY IT MATTERS: A good summary of potential use cases and applications for key digital technologies that revolutionize business.
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Something that often bothers me about sci-fi is the loner inventor trope. A guy in a garage builds a robot, or AI, or frequently both that are somehow decades beyond the technology of his day. It’s hard to even appreciate how hard this is for robots to do, because it’s hard to appreciate how difficult walking still is for humanoids. I wrote a whole piece about the problem of building walking robots back in 2011 — it wasn’t pretty back then, and it’s still a challenge for most full-sized humanoids.
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WHY IT MATTERS: we've heard that robots will replace humans for so many years now that we tend to dismiss such claims. This demonstration shows that this may change in the near future with huge impact on manufacturing of course but also in autonomous vehicles, delivery drones and maybe personal robots. And this would be something very significant given the difficulty that employers have finding workers for certain low skills jobs such as truck drivers https://www.forbes.com/pictures/lmh45edlmk/2017-30-under-30-the-st/#28c4963119b4
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The robots are indeed already here. I work at a university where my job is teaching students and doing research and robotics and so I really what I want to convey to you today is the trends that I see robotics research going that will ultimately turn into actual products and directions that you might be able to take advantage of in the future.
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WHY IT MATTERS : the video provides a great review of the state of technology when it comes to robots and robotics today from one of the leading researcher in the field. The talk is peppered with short videos of actual robots so you get a good sense of what's possible today. But remember that we live in an exponential growth era, so things improve very fast.
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The robots themselves are produced by California-based Bossa Nova Robotics, and are about two-feet tall with an extendable tower containing lights and sensors for scanning shelves. They sit in recharging stations in the store until a human employee gives them a “mission” — e.g. checking a particular aisle to see what needs re-stocking. The robots are supposed to save workers’ time, but Walmart says it will also use the data they collect to improve efficiency nationwide.
Farid Mheir's insight:
WHY IT MATTERS: robots are moving out of the factory floor to invade all other spaces - from parking to retail stores. Here a great example of a robots to handle a routine and very important task for retailers: identifying what is on store shelves so as to minimize the out of stock items and mapping store layout for order pickers (every store is different so picking items is often a nightmare). Of course, this will impact jobs - even though Walmart says it won't.
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The theme of both the robot-ization of the global workforce and the populist desire for a hike in the minimum wage have been popular and ongoing ones here at Zero Hedge. However, never has it been more clear just where the future lies than this chart from BofAML's Michael Hartnett... As he says, "we are long robots, and short human beings."
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WHY IT MATTERS: robots will grow and bring back manufacturing to "developed" countries such as the US but they won't bring back jobs.
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A survey of AI researchers tallied predictions for when machines will start beating humans at everything from LEGO assembly to essay-writing.
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WHY IT MATTERS: I shy away from these projections but here it comes from scholars at Oxford and Yale so I give more value. Moreover it tracks with the projections I have read from the Singularity is Near and other books on the matter. Moreover I like the visualization because it shows concrete tasks that we can all relate to. And look at the timeline, remembering that 2026 is less than 10 years from now...
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The robots are coming. We (as in the people who attend TED talks and things) tend to think we will probably be fine. You know, knowledge folks and all. We might not be. What will be our coping mechanisms? What can we do to be OK?
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WHY IT MATTERS: a short 15min video to listen to this weekend and bring very good conversation topics for Sunday dinner with the kids...
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We explore CEOs’ current perceptions of how robotics in the workplace is shaping their businesses today and in the near future. We also offer our perspectives on how robotics and automation have the potential to be truly transformative in the way they create value within organisations.
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WHY IT MATTERS: robots are everywhere and PWC projections from 2014 shows growth in many areas outside manufacturing.
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Picking stuff up and putting it away sounds like child's play, but to online retailer Amazon.com, it is a high-tech, high-stakes game. This year, contestants competed in timed stowing and picking operations -- simple enough for humans yet nearly impossible for robots to perform reliably. For stowing, each robot was rated on how efficiently it could pick up items and put them on a shelf. In the picking phase, the robots had to put specified items into the proper boxes. The top eight advanced to the final round.
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WHY IT MATTERS: robots will soon replace humans in Amazon warehouses, as there are already 45000 kiva robots and growing. Moreover, the tasks that robots can perform is expanding and Amazon is pushing the limits of what's possible with this annual robotics challenge. Also see - Economist story http://econ.st/2yO8n90 - projections that US manufacturing jobs will continue decline while robots growth at an accelerated pace http://bit.ly/2yOFhWO - PWC estimates that robots will replace pretty every human worker in every industry https://pwc.to/2yQ270n
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Next time you shop online for jeans or T-shirts from the Gap, you may have artificial intelligence to thank when the correct items arrive on your doorstep.
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WHY IT MATTERS: forecasts are that robots will outnumber human workers in Amazon warehouses by 2020. This trial from GAP goes along in that direction: remotely-controlled robots with AI help prepare orders in the warehouse. This tech should be on everyone's strategic plan for distribution and logistics in the coming years.
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November 2, 2017 1:46 PM
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Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.
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WHY IT MATTERS McKinsey study finds that new digital technologies will transform the job market gradually and explores where these changes may occur first.
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ARK Invest aims to identify large-scale investment opportunities resulting from technological change. We believe innovation is key to growth. From a broad spectrum of disruptive innovations, Big Ideas represents our annual breakout of technologies that we believe will accelerate significantly in the months ahead.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Investment firms tend to be very traditional in their approach. This one appears to be embracing the digital transformation and making very insightful research that - from what they claim - guides their investments. Great idea. Now we'll see if their assumptions prove right and generate more returns than other investment guidance. I have a feeling it will.
Topics covered: 3D printing, additive manufacturing, artificial intelligence, automation, autonomous taxis, autonomous vehicles, bitcoin, blockchain, CRISPR, cryptocurrency, deep learning, dna sequencing, fintech, genomics, machine learning, mobile, robotics, shared autonomous vehicles
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Capgemini’s 2017 Edition of TechnoVision presents 37 compelling technology trend building blocks of inspiring, challenging, and disruptive perspectives.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I appreciate the thought leadership of Capgemini around digital disruption and find this year they have tapped into an important concept: the parallel digital universe. Can't wait to dive into the different papers in this report. Moreover, the concept of having digital twins is one that I have written about in the past as well: http://fmcs.digital/blog/digital-twin/
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La prochaine grosse mine du Québec ne sera pas comme les autres. Si tout se passe comme prévu, robots, drones et autres équipements automatisés donneront une deuxième vie à des installations minières fermées depuis 40 ans à Rouyn-Noranda.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Mining is dangerous and very repetitive, making it a prime candidate for robots and automation. A mine in Chile by Codelco has recently been converted to fully automated and now this mine in Northern Quebec. Expect AI, robots, self driving things and other new technologies to take certain industries by storm, even more traditional ones like mining. Also see this article on benefits of drones and driverless vehicles in mining: http://www.machinedesign.com/constructionoff-road/drones-come-down-earth-ugvs-and-driverless-vehicles-reality Such consistency leads to higher efficiency, lower operating costs, and better overall productivity. According to University of British Columbia, benefits of autonomous hauling systems (AHS) include:
This could significantly raise a mine’s output, or permit fewer trucks and a smaller fleet.
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From cloud computing and lithium ion batteries to 3D printing and containerization, we collected the technologies that have done the most to shape the internet era.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I usually repost those things around new years, with all the predictions etc. but this list seemed to me so appropriate and so true that I wanted to share now.
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May 23, 2017 9:31 AM
WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT I usually repost those things around new years, with all the predictions etc. but this list seemed to me so appropriate and so true that I wanted to share now.
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Unleash the bots! Automation has emerged as a critical issue in the US following a 2016 election that focused largely on jobs and plans to save them. Though a significant amount of attention has been directed towards autonomous driving as a potential job killer, specifically for long-haul trucking, delivery robots appear poised to go mainstream much sooner.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT We think of robots as fixed machines that assemble cars. However, with the advances in autonomous driving we may see an explosion of delivery robots. We have seen experiments with the use of drones to deliver products (Amazon and others) and now we are seeing self driving robots appear on the streets as it is much easier to get permits for those than it is for flying objects that can crash and hurt people. This is important because delivery remains the Achille's heel of eCommerce (slow, expensive): whoever cracks this problem and comes up with a low cost and economical solution will make a killing.
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For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human language, for example, or giving them explicit commands for very specific tasks. But what if we could develop robots that were a more natural extension of us and that could actually do whatever we are thinking? A team from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and Boston University is working on this problem, creating a feedback system that lets people correct robot mistakes instantly with nothing more than their brains.
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Mind control is the last frontier. We are not there yet but initiatives like this show the potential.
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A ranking of the 100 most promising private artificial intelligence companies. It is a purely data-driven/algorithmic process that uses CB Insights data. We’ve gathered this data via our
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WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT Are we on the eve of an era where the Fortune 500 is replaced by the "AI 100"? This may be more realistic than you think if the current predictions regarding the future of work push humans to service each other and let all the "work" be done by machines - robots and AI. We are not there yet and this list merely reports 100 startups that are very active in the field AI. Nevertheless, it is interesting to consider what impact AI may have and adjust our digital strategies accordingly... Fortune magazine has also created a very interesting infographics from this mountain of data: http://fortune.com/2017/02/23/artificial-intelligence-companies/
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Automation is happening, and it will bring substantial benefits to businesses and economies worldwide, but it won’t arrive overnight. A new McKinsey Global Institute report finds realizing automation’s full potential requires people and technology to work hand in hand.
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Very useful stats and data.
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WHY IT MATTERS: we think of robots either what we see on automobile production floors (arms+welder) or as futuristic Terminator human-like machine that does not exist yet. In between, there are many innovations that must happen to bring us closer to a versatile human-like robot.