Innovation: Robotics is happening far faster than most realize
We are going to see advanced automation via even humanoid robots. This is an amazing bit of engineering. Last Saturday I stopped in an ordinary Asian Bistro restaurant – and…
Automation: Fast food outlets dropping sit down service, becoming take out only
Name a fast-food restaurant and the odds are the company has recently developed a branch without any restaurant at all. Chipotle’s first “Digital Kitchen,” which opened in upstate New York…
Automation: Robots restocking shelves in Japan
Automation is how the declining population’s labor shortage problem will be addressed: A robotics company is installing restocking robots in 300 grocery stores in Japan – and the plan is…
Panera Bread testing voice recognition tech for drive thru orders
Automation will place increasingly large roles in fast food services: Two Panera Bread locations in upstate New York are testing artificial intelligence technology that takes drive-thru orders. Source: Panera Bread…
“Boston Dynamics’ Spot becomes robotic watchdog for Hyundai”
Boston Dynamics is the SpaceX of robotics: Hyundai will have Spot help with safety operations at one of its plants in South Korea. Source: Boston Dynamics’ Spot becomes robotic watchdog…
Environmental Robotics
Erin Kennedy, a.k.a. RobotGrrl, gives this TedXOttawa talk. Interesting approach to applying robotics and other ideas to simple environmental cleanups. I met Erin at SF Bay Area Maker Faire in…
Stop Calling Everything AI, Machine-Learning Pioneer Says – IEEE Spectrum
This is true – with a reminder that even as a brain injured idiot, I am a retired computer engineer and computer scientist: Artificial-intelligence systems are nowhere near advanced enough…
Hmmm: Laid off retail workers should “Learn to Code”
Says Rahm Emanuel, former Chicago Mayor, Congressional Representative and former Obama Chief of Staff, said this in this news interview. Laid off workers should “Learn to code”. He’s likely correct…