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1. Top 5 Technology Innovations in 2020 You Have to Be Ready For
2. How The Healthcare Industry Can Best Utilise Robotic Process Automation (RPA)
Healthcare has more than its fair share of monotonous, time-consuming tasks that prevent employees from focusing on more productive activities.
3. "Success will be found because developers are lazy"
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[4. Interview with Priyanshu,
Founder of Hyperspawn Robotics](https://hackernoon.com/interview-with-priyanshu-founder-of-hyperspawn-robotics)
Hyperspawn Robotics is developing humanoid robots that precisely mimic human movements and can be controlled remotely using VR gear from anywhere in the world.
5. 7 Reasons to Start Automating Business with Bots
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6. The Many Types of Robots That You Don't Hear About Everyday
The industrial revolution has brought up many changes in human life. Scientists are in a continuous state of the effort to make life easy and simple. They are working on complex structures to bring such inventions that are helpful in various aspects. The scientists have converted impossible to possible. Robotics is one of the key inventions that seem impossible at the start of the nineteenth century. These masterpieces are so incredible that when someone sees their work and benefits, he simply says wow.
7. Robotic Vision: Connecting Asus Xtion Live Depth Camera to Raspberry Pi
An important part of the robot is its eyes and perception of the outside world. For this purpose, the Depth Camera is well suited.
8. An Honest Tale of How We Built a Humanoid Robot
Robo-C is an anthropomorphic robot built to interact with humans.
9. “A robot army isn’t an ideal opponent, but I would have a water gun”
Naturally, another good portion of the population would be trying to destroy everything around them for stupidity’s sake.
10. Building a Raspberry Pi + ESP32 Drone: My First Steps Into Robotics
A journey from a web developer to a drone maker, with all of the problems and solutions that come with making a drone using a Raspberry Pi and ESP32.
11. Telepresence Robots Are the Future of Remote Work – An Interview With Double Robotics
Founded in 2011, Double Robotics is the world’s leading provider of telepresence robots. Their first product line is called Double, with the third model, the Double 3, shipping in late September of 2019. Their robots use mixed reality and computer vision to navigate in the real world, avoiding obstacles in their path. Their telepresence robots have been featured in numerous television programs and have received great feedback from big-name customers like MIT Sloan and LinkedIn.
12. Robotic Process Automation + Machine Learning = Intelligent Automation
13. Robotic Process Automation BI Facts And Myth
14. Could the Tech in "Tomorrowland" Movie Become a Reality by 2050?
Two things appear to be repetitively accurate about emerging technologies. First, content production studios often set unrealistic expectations on what’s possible and what isn’t with new devices and systems. Second, innovators of all types are doing their best to catch up with fiction and sometimes have to remind everybody that what’s onscreen can be misleading.
15. Why is Motion Planning the Big Trend Now?
Robot motion planning? Is not motion planning complicated!? Not necessarily. If you ever have used a GPS, you can easily understand motion planning with offline programming.
16. 7 Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Predictions for 2020
17. Smartphones Are Now Control Hubs for Personal Service Robots
The next decade will see huge strides in artificial intelligence and connectivity, supported by the internet of things. All this creates the technological foundation for the growing smart home market, especially in the domestic robot segment. In its global forecast, MarketAndMarkets predicts that the global value of domestic robot market will hit $9.1 billion by 2024 with a CAGR of 22.4%.
18. Thinking of Buying Stereo Cameras? Read This Product Comparison.
To pique your curiosity about robotics, we bring you the product review you were waiting for, a comparison between real sense cameras, one of the main hardware pieces used in all types of robots.
19. How Intelligent Systems and Robots Will Be Designed In The Near Future
As of now, designing parts for an intelligent system involves building up the parts from the ground up. From 2D sketches to a feasible and robust part that can be manufactured based on given constraints of cost, material, and maximum weight. This often takes days to weeks, depending on the complexity of the parts that comprise the intelligent system.
20. Between the Hows and Whys of Artificial Intelligence [feat. The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly]
Artificial intelligence can mean a lot of things. It’s been used as a catch-all for various disciplines in computer science including robotics, natural language processing, or artificial neural networks. That’s because, generally speaking, when we talk about artificial intelligence we’re always talking about the simulation of human thought by a mechanical process.
21. Artificial Intelligence and Robotics: Who’s At Fault When Robots Kill?
22. How to Make a Cost-effective Flexible Robotic Solution for Low-volume Production
How modular architecture and AI software helped us to create a cheap, efficient robotic solution for short production.
23. The Rise of Drones in Different Industries
Description: Whether you follow technological developments or not, you cannot escape from hearing about drones. Drone technology is developing at the speed of light and they are becoming increasingly popular. Nowadays almost everyone wants to have a drone with a camera for personal or business reasons.
24. Latest IT Technologies and Trends in 2022
Technology has impacted our daily lives in the same way as "bread n butter". Every day begins with technology and concludes with technology.
25. Love, Death & Industrial Robots
By 2022 the number of operational industrial robots worldwide is expected to surpass the population of Berlin. Nowadays in our factories, flexible cobots work hand in hand with people and machine learning is helping them to become even more versatile. It is very fascinating to follow the developments of the fast-paced automation industry.
26. Replacing Manual Labor With Robotics Manufacturing Lines
Let's look into some case studies to find out should our manufacturing lines stay manual, or be automated.
27. 7 Ways AI & Robotics Are Disrupting Healthcare Right Now
When thinking of robotics and AI in healthcare, robotic surgery and exoskeletons are what probably comes to mind first. Yet in reality, there’s a multitude of other ways automation and machine learning are changing medical care practices at their core.
28. Elon Musk Says This Is the Future of Warfare
Elon Musk is no stranger to looking to the future. His companies are some of the most forward-thinking in the world.
29. Top 5 Ping Pong Robots: 2022 Edition
30. Using FPGA in the Near Future: Trends and Predictions
The FPGA market continues to boom. According to the global forecast, over the next few years, its CAGR will be at an average of 8.6%. But the most interesting are new appliances of the tech, which are sometimes more akin to science fiction than to real life.
31. How Mixed Reality Will Shape the Design of Intelligent Systems and Robots
As of now, if you are an intelligent design systems engineer interested in designing, fabricating and assembling a robot for your lab or factory, you must go through the laborious process of first designing a 3D model on a 2D screen (which is problematic without full-scale context) then making a crammed engineering drawing listing the bill of materials and displaying your design in different views (isometric, right, left, section, exploded). For the engineer putting this together, this takes hours to days to do so depending on the complexity of the robot. One must take into account the orientation of every part, measurement of each side and angle, the location of the part in terms of the whole assembly, surfaces that should meet vs not, appropriate torque required for any screws, etc.
32. How to Become Future-Ready Through R&D Experimentation
An interview with R&D Head about how R&D projects differ from mainstream software dev projects, what types of companies are better placed to outsource R&D, etc.
33. From Issac Asimov to Decalogue
34. Google's PaLM-E (AI Robot) Can See and Understand Language
Google's latest publication, PaLM-E, is an embodied multimodal language model.
35. Where The Money’s Headed: China’s Tech Investment Trends of 2022
China’s entrepreneurial fervor and investor confidence is at an all-time high, with no signs of losing steam. So, where's the big money going in 2022?
36. With Rise of ChatGPT, Is Now the Correct Time to Ask Whether AI Should Have Rights?
To understand whether AI should have rights, we may have to dig into our own past to understand how we behave.
37. Why Hardware Will Be Sexy to Mainstream VC (in 5 Slides)
If you're a software engineer looking to become a founder, consider hardware. There's a shift coming.
38. AI, Robotics, and the Future of Healthcare
There is no doubt that AI and Robotics are making human life more manageable. The way these technologies are helping mankind is beyond our imagination.
39. Technology: Past, Present and The Deep Blue Sea
Armed with science, technology, and a complex psyche, the entire species inched forward, spurred on by a collective curiosity that will make or mar us.
40. How AI and Robots are Shaping Healthcare
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and data science are really starting to shape the delivery of healthcare services. We see it in almost every significant activity, from the management of patient scheduling through to physically assisting surgery.
41. 5 Startup/VC Trends Coming Out of the Pandemic
42. OpenCog: A Poem
Voice is a curious agent, an everlasting framework flame that burns embedded from its scalable sensors to all the regions of the brain.
43. MashRadar Reviews: The Tesla Prototype Humanoid Robot Optimus
This Tesla Humanoid Robot Optimus review will examine the features and functionality of Elon Musk’s latest invention.
44. Three 2023 Predictions for the Automated Future of Retail
The future of retail in general — both in the e-commerce world and in-store operations — is about efficient and smart operations.
45. How AI Will Soon Integrate With Synthetic Biology
Will synthetic biology help change our perception of the world around us and help us detect things humans cannot?
46. Sweet Mechanical Revenge
A revenge story with hormone-sensitive robots at its center.
47. Innovations in The Robotics Industry You Should Know About
The new innovations in the robotics industry are creating exciting opportunities for investors.
48. Are Robots Effective During a Coronavirus Pandemic?
We are at a time when we are not prepared with resources and planning to handle the pandemics like COVID-19. Just as humans are not ready to tackle the disease, robots alongside too are quite behind the abilities to combat the problem.
49. 5 Tips From a Robot on Motivation
Need to get more done? Follow these 5 tips from an AI robot to help keep you motivated.
50. Harnessing the Power of Robotics to Transform eCommerce Fulfillment
By automating tasks, robots can increase efficiency and lower costs, allowing retail businesses to scale and meet the growing demand for fast, reliable delivery
51. The Human Cost of Amazon Sparrow: How Automation is Impacting Warehouse Workers
Amazon's new Sparrow robot aims to improve the efficiency of its order fulfillment centers, but workers worry about the potential job loss.
52. The Emerging Tech Trends You Should Check Out
53. How to Kalman Filter Your Way Out
Learn how to use Kalman filters to minimize uncertainty with multi-sensory arrays
54. How Rozum Café Rule Robots
It is a common phrase that every story has two sides. Thus this article marries such stories. The story of how coffee met a robot and became each other's perfect twin flame. The essential contribution of coffee to the humans’ lifestyle is so diverse that there are almost no pages left in the history books to narrate a unique script about it anymore.
55. Meet The CEO of 1MRobotics, Eyal Yair
An interview with the co-founder and CEO of 1MRobotics, Eyal Yair. He runs a startup that specialises in robotics and shares his philosophy and strategy.
56. Meet NASA's 'Mars Dog' - Au Spot
Au-Spot, along with several other robots will join NASA's Mars mission to explore caves anonymously while communicating a 3D map back to the base station.
57. Understanding the Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Agriculture
According to recent projections by the UN:
58. What 6 Superbowl Ads tell us about our Robotic Future
Super Bowl ? More like Super Bored, ammaright?
59. Robotics and Their future Impacts for Humans
In the Industrial Age that humankind has entered a long time back with steam, the arrangement has caused crude automation underway. With the improvement of web and portable advances, hardware, Nano innovation, progresses in drug, wellbeing and computerized applications, etc accelerate mechatronics considers these days.
Robots have upset the assembling and modern world in ongoing decades, and are beginning to make their move into the more extensive universe of business just as our homes, as well.
These advancements are set to turn our view of what a robot is, and how it can support us and the world we live in, tops turvy. Rather than considering robots huge, inflexible, and strong machines. We can see future robots as counterfeit automated living beings that have properties mirroring, and enormously expanding, the capacities of characteristic living beings.
While mechanical workers are presently typical in parts, for example, vehicle and hardware fabricating. 2019 should see progressively broad appropriation crosswise over nourishment creation, social insurance, and conveyance activities.
The interesting properties of non-abrasiveness and consistence make these machines exceedingly fit cooperation with fragile things, including the human body.
How these new innovations will at last drive mechanical autonomy and the careful type of future robots is obscure, yet here we can at any rate glimpse the future effect of apply autonomy for people.
Other than automated vacuum cleaners, home help robots have been moderate to take off up until now. Could that change in 2019? Without a doubt, an entire type of new business like Yocan, and set up organizations are wagering that it will. From automated mates for the older to robots intended to encourage, play with and care for pets while their proprietors are out, the evident applications are ample.
The 19th century denoted the increasing speed and wide reception of mechanical procedures. Toward the beginning of the century, the Industrial Revolution was in mid-swing, and by the end, we had built up the vehicle and were going to exhibit controlled flight.
60. Central Asian's First AI News Anchor Aired Kazakhstan
The first virtual news anchor on Central Asian television replaced a
human. Kazakhstan’s channel Atameken Business delegated one of its news programs to the AI anchor. The hologram named i-Sanj will host the daily financial news.
61. Tiny, Fast, & Strong: An Insect-sized Robot that Mimics Cheetah
Engineers at the UC- Berkeley, have developed a specialized robot that mimics the movement of a cheetah to take quick turns.
62. Sensor-based Control in Cobots: Its Opportunities and Challenges
Introduction of the very basic formulation of the major sensor-servo problem, and then presenting its most common approaches like touch-based,
63. 5 Manufacturing Problems Solved By Automation
Any chance to alleviate the burdens of manufacturing and supply chain workers should happen, and many of these modern opportunities happen with automation.
64. The Shortcomings of Computer-controlled Robots
Computer-controlled robots are monotonous. They are mostly able to perform a sequence of processing operations that is fixed by the equipment configuration and
65. Robotic Welding Process: Welding Applications, Systems and Techniques
The use of robotic technology allows to obtain precise and rapid results, avoid waste, and operate with greater safety.
66. IPA vs. BPA vs. RPA: What Should Your Company Choose
Business process automation, robotic process automation, and intelligent process automation are buzzwords that fall under business process management.
67. Implementation of Mobile Robots for an Autonomous Scalable Smart Factory
Autonomous mobile robots for assembly factories as a databus for computers. Creating advanced eco-system using modular architecture and AI-driven factory OS
68. What Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Know About Its Automation Strategy
Being at the forefront of automation, why is Amazon downplaying the impact of AI and robotics?
69. Automation is the New Black: What’s There For You?
70. How Social Robots Help Reduce Stress and Loneliness In Child Patients
What do a smartphone, a kick scooter and a pet have in common? When combined and powered by artificial intelligence, they become new members of the household – social companion robots. They can do a boatload of things from guarding the house and doing chores to babysitting and teaching kids to keeping company to the older adults or those with health issues.
71. The Future of Work: How Machines Will Replace Humans
Fear is not new but seems more real than ever. Will robots put men out of work or become their allies? Who will be most affected? How can they best prepare for the job market of the future? No one has the definitive answers to these questions yet, but what is known is that in a matter of a few decades we will witness a profound transformation of the production of goods and services that will fully impact workers and economies around the planet.Work is being replaced by machines, robots or algorithms, which do something more efficiently and do not create anything new, they simply replace the basic unit of work".
72. Interview with Elnaz Sarraf, Woman in Tech and STEM
Growing up as a woman in Iran, Elnaz witnessed limited opportunities, leading her on her journey in the U.S. to become a tech entrepreneur.
73. I Hear Voices: The Communicative Array for a Friendly Robot
Engineers of the “Promobot” company shed some light on what the notion of “robot communication” actually means
74. How to Operate Promotional Robots with Minimal Technical Knowledge
After all, our technologies, be that a Roomba, a voicemail box, or a smartphone, are robots too and they can be configured and used without any problems.
75. How Robots Will Help Humans in a Post-Pandemic World
76. How to Annotate 100 LIDAR Scans in 1 Hour: A Step-by-Step Guide
A guide to efficient annotation of 3D point clouds for use in self-driving vehicles. Fast semantic segmentation of the drivable areag
77. First Come, First Served: 7 Businesses That Hired Robots Before 2020
We are already used to robots in an industrial environment. Repeatability, speed, precision,
flexibility, no contact with humans, and safety. That’s what robots are all about. No wonder that businesses all around the world are trying now to adopt robots in their services asap.
78. Robot Dog Coding Tutorial: Petoi Bittle vs Gummy Bear on Halloween
Learn how to make a horror comic clip with Bittle dog robotics kit using Python and Petoi Skill composer.
79. Servo Motor Basics And Working Principle
Although both motors brush and brush-less function based on the equivalent interest to induce torque, each of them focuses on distinct techniques and procedures to achieve the desired outcomes.
80. The Singularity: When Will We Transition to a Dictatorship of Robots?
81. The Rise of Robots: Insights Into the Global Robotics Market
82. What’s The Deal With Programming In Arduino
Arduino is an amazing platform to get into hardware development and programming. But there are a few things you need to know before you start.
83. Creating an Intuitive Robotic Manipulator Control With a Myo Armband
Recently I was given a Myo armband, and this article aims to describe how such a device could be exploited to control a robotic manipulator intuitively.
84. SpaceBok: A Robot that 'Walks' in Space
SpaceBok, a quadruped robot, uses nature’s tactics for space exploration. The robot isn’t graded for space yet but is ready for some exciting experiments.
85. Using Robotics & Automation in IHC Labs
The booming immunohistochemistry (IHC) sector of healthcare requires more technicians than the market has to offer. That's where automation comes in.
86. Interview With A 10-Year Old Programmer
This is a story of a young boy who is more than what he seems, a young genius man, who must share his gifts and talents with the world.
87. About Cisco, Alascom and Fanuc's Progress on Building Collaborative Cobots
By harnessing Natural language to allow for more seamlessly collaborative Robotics projects, Cisco, Alascom and Fanuc are drawing a roadmap for the future.
88. Survey on Acoustic Sensors in Self-Driving Cars
Sound has been used in numerous applications as a tool for object localization. Audio technology can enhance object detection and may improve self driving cars.
89. How Pandemic Problem Motivates AI Developers To Help Manufacturing Industries
90. The Lack of Unique Human Abilities in Robots
Robots are unable to undertake tasks in which special human intellectual capabilities are needed.
91. Will Robots Take Your Job: Reality or a Misconception?
92. Top 10 Robotic Process Automation Companies
Robotic Process Automation is a new technology, and it lets s a business to configure computer software to reduce and integrate the significant action of a human interacting with current digital systems to process. RPA utilizes an updated user interface to collect data and manipulate the overall application. It built with the trigger responses and good at communicating with the different systems to perform a complete task. This software never makes any mistake, and the cost of software is too low when you compare it with staff. At present, it is one of the fast-growing segments in the world, so business people depend on such software to run a business successfully. Hence you have to go with the right robotic process automation Company to get a complete solution.
93. Last-Mile Delivery: What Industry Leaders Look for in Startup Partners
94. Do You Know Robots?
There are several types of robots used to automate production.
95. Architecture Design of a Smart, Scalable, AI-driven Robotic Production Factory
The core concepts of the architecture and design of a scalable, smart, robotics production factory is outlined.
96. The Internet of Dogs: How to Build a $50 IoT Dog Collar That Locates Your Pet
I love side projects. They give me the opportunity to flex my creative muscles and tinker with tech like the Internet of Things (IoT) in new ways. Fortunately, I didn't have to look far for my next one; a common conundrum for pet owners fueled this concept for an IoT dog collar.
97. Robotic Process Automation Cost, Deciphered
Office employees spend around 69 days per year on administrative tasks. This costs US businesses $2.87 trillion in lost productivity annually.
98. 3 Common Types of 3D Sensors: Stereo, Structured Light, and ToF
Over the past decade, 3D sensors have emerged to become one of the most versatile and ubiquitous types of sensor used in robotics.
99. RPA Tool Comparison: How to Choose the Right Automation Vendor
An Austrian insurance provider, HDI Versicherung AG, reported saving 600 one-person days over a year and a half thanks to UiPath’s software bots.
100. Top 20 Robotic Process Automation Companies
101. Deciphering Reinforced Learning for Hybrid Controls in Robots
102. The Future of Business Process Automation
103. How to Create and Play a Simple Robot Program via Webots Robot Simulator
104. AI in Five, Fifty and Five Hundred Years — Part One
As I said in my article What Will Bitcoin Look Like in Twenty Years:
105. 7 Ways to UseRobots in The Food Industry
106. Robots Performing Surgeries On Pigs? The Impact Of Robotics In Medicine
For the first time in medical history, it was recorded that some robots successfully carried out a laparoscopic surgery unaided by humans.
107. Food Tech Stories: Will You Marry Me, Cooking Robot?
108. What’s The Deal With Programming In Arduino
Arduino is an amazing platform to get into hardware development and programming. But there are a few things you need to know before you start.
109. A Human Writers Thoughts on AI Writing Bots
My thoughts on artificial intelligence writing bots.
110. Your Robocup, Sir
07:00 am, the bus leaves in 15 minutes and you’ve got a chance to run to the nearest coffee shop to get your morning dose of excellent caffeine. You come into a café, happily recognizing that there are only two competitors in the queue, and already start to feel the energy of a double Americano in your hand.
111. How Technological Innovation and Automation Can be Beneficial in Times of Crisis
How Universal Basic Income (UBI) provides food on the table and bills to be paid
112. Fighting Coronavirus: Singapore Tests a Disinfection Robot That Capable of Cleaning Large Areas
Scientists in Singapore have invented a disinfecting robot that imitates human gestures to help cleaning staff overwhelmed since the start of the coronavirus crisis. The "XDBOT" is a rectangular box-shaped robot mounted on wheels and armed with an articulated arm which can be operated remotely. He can reach places that are difficult to clean with great dexterity, such as the space under beds or tables.
113. Why Tesla’s Optimus Is a Big Step on the Way to AGI
LaMDA-like large language models with Tesla Optimus-like robots will be the next big step on the way to Artificial General Intelligence.
114. Moving Fast and Breaking Things vs Moving Slow so That it Doesn't Break - Technological Evolution
Digital technology is characterized by “move fast and break things”. Heavy asset industries, in contrast, are characterized by “this cannot break, so we have to move slow”. When digitalization meets industry, these mottos collide. The optimal result in this collision is “move fast without breaking things”, or at least try to avoid “move slow and break things”.
115. Manufacturing Robotization: Drivers and Barriers
By 2035, in the leading industrial robotics countries, factory productivity will grow by 40% and gross value added will double.
116. Artificial Intelligence is the Future, and It's Already Here
By 2030, artificial intelligence is projected to contribute at least $15.7 trillion to the global economy.
117. AI's Working Man Displacement
Photo by Craig Sybert on Unsplash
118. Five Industries That Could See An Influx of Robots
119. Robotics is Aimed to Help and Assist Humans by Taking on the Dirty, Dangerous, and Dull Chores
This article discusses robotics and the impact of robots and AI on humanity.
120. The Robots Are Taking Over
Humanoid Natasha, Amy, and Katarina (from the future) say that the robots are taking over This Week On Planet Internet! These days, if you think about anything
121. How to Kalman Filter Your Way Out (Part 2: Updating Your Prediction)
Part II describes how to use Kalman filters to minimize uncertainty when using multi-sensor arrays
122. How San Francisco Was Nearly Policed by Armed Robots
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors recently gave city police the permission to use robots in the field – with the potential for lethal force.
123. Object Recognition With SPOT from Boston Robotics
Earlier this month, we were joined by Joris Sijs, Lead Scientist at TNO on the second series of Grakn Orbit.
124. Building Robots for Smarter Cities: How the Manufacturing Process is Everything
Hardware is seeing a resurgence and exponential innovation similar to the software boom a decade ago. And as a robotic delivery company founded in 2017, we have been navigating the manufacturing world and hardware revolution, picking up product design and smart tips along the way.
125. #Noonies2021 Awards: The List of Winners in the Internet Heroes Category
Not all heroes wear capes. Some heroes are somewhere out there in our vast universe behind a computer screen.
126. The Future Of Manufacturing And Automation
127. Navigating Uncharted Waters: a Robotic Startup Journey
Check out what it takes to build enterprise robots and how a corporate robotic department can spin off into a standalone robotic scale-up.
128. Entrepreneurship Trends Happening in the Robotics Industry
Here are some of the trends we’re seeing from entrepreneurs in the robotics space.
129. Save Alexa: Take an Intersectional Approach
Have you ever wondered why so many robots, virtual assistants, and AI are programmed with feminine traits? Have you ever pondered, if there were more women behind the algorithms, how AI would be different — not just vocally and aesthetically, but functionally?
130. Telepresence Robots: An Ultimate Guide
Learn the 18 characteristics of telepresence robots.
131. My Thoughts on the AI Revolution: Hype, Scams, and Big Brother
132. Consider This: Theomorphic Robots; Not Losing Our Religion?
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