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Vox
Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands
Vox
6 min read · Sep 27th · A new Amazon robot handles 1,000 items an hour. · Shared by 47, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Marsha Collier, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
The Washington Post
The robots are here. And they are making you fries.
The Washington Post
Sep 20th · Facing a labor shortage, fast-food restaurants are increasingly turning to robots to man the fryer and do other unpopular tasks. · Shared by 62
TNW
New neuromorphic approach could make future robots smarter
TNW
2 min read · Aug 31st · Intel's Loihi neuromorphic chip has powered a new approach to developing robots keep learning about new objects after they've been deployed. · Shared by 48, including Harold Sinnott #DigitalTransformation, ipfconline #CES2023, AI, Merkstatt, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Dr. Sally Eaves #SASExplore #TISummit22, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Ahier
Futurism
They Put GPT-3 Into That Robot With Creepily Realistic Facial Expressions and Yikes
Futurism
1 min read · Sep 14th · UK-based robotics company Engineered Arts just gave its ultra-realistic-looking humanoid robot Ameca a voice — and she has a lot to say. · Shared by 14, including Merkstatt
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Robotic surgeons are coming to a hospital near you
youtube.com
Sep 18th · Here’s what it’s like to use a robotic surgical system.Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube ► https://freeth.ink/youtube-subscribe Up Next ► How 3D printing is ... · Shared by 103
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
American workers need lots and lots of robots
Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦
10 min read · Sep 5th · With the power of automation, our workers can win. Without it, they're in trouble. · Shared by 86, including Bilal Zuberi, Pomp 🌪, Packy McCormick, Brooks Rainwater
Singularity Hub
Google Gave Its Helper Robots AI Language Skills to Better Work With Humans
Singularity Hub
2 min read · Aug 22nd · While robots can be trained to carry out actions on our behalf, conveying our intentions to them can be tricky. · Shared by 86, including ipfconline #CES2023, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Howard Getson, AI, Brian Ahier, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer
Smithsonian Magazine
The Past, Present and Future of Robotic Surgery
Smithsonian Magazine
6 min read · Sep 15th · After decades of merely assisting doctors, are sophisticated machines ready to take charge? · Shared by 85, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Berci Meskó, MD, PhD, John Hagel
EL PAÍS
Don’t let the robot discard your resume: Applying for work in an automated world
EL PAÍS
4 min read · Sep 5th · Many companies use artificial intelligence systems to screen CVs. Here’s how to avoid their biases and exploit their weaknesses · Shared by 68
The Washington Post
The robots are here. And they are making you fries.
The Washington Post
Sep 20th · Facing a labor shortage, fast-food restaurants are increasingly turning to robots to man the fryer and do other unpopular tasks. · Shared by 62
The Washington Post
The world’s funniest former NASA roboticist will take your questions
The Washington Post
Sep 12th · Randall Munroe, creator of the popular webcomic “xkcd” and author of the new book “What If? 2,” applies true research to wild ideas (rogue dinosaurs in New York City!) · Shared by 62
TNW
New neuromorphic approach could make future robots smarter
TNW
2 min read · Aug 31st · Intel's Loihi neuromorphic chip has powered a new approach to developing robots keep learning about new objects after they've been deployed. · Shared by 48, including Harold Sinnott #DigitalTransformation, ipfconline #CES2023, AI, Merkstatt, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA, Dr. Sally Eaves #SASExplore #TISummit22, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Brian Ahier
Vox
Amazon’s robots are getting closer to replacing human hands
Vox
6 min read · Sep 27th · A new Amazon robot handles 1,000 items an hour. · Shared by 47, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Marsha Collier, Tom Pick | #B2Bmarketing guy, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Brian Laung Aoaeh, CFA, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻
BuzzFeed News
Elon Musk Is Set To Unveil Tesla's Prototype Robot
BuzzFeed News
1 min read · Sep 23rd · Musk is hyping up the Optimus robot — but skeptics are not hard to find · Shared by 29, including Taylor Lorenz
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The Verge
How hard will the robots make us work?
The Verge
20+ min read · From 2020 · Shared by 512, including Paolo Pedercini, Nige Willson, Jeff Toister, Terence Mills, LARRY ELKAN, Ronald van Loon @SASsoftware #ExploreSAS, Mathew Ingram, Joanna J Bryson, Alf Rehn, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Jon Keegan 🇺🇦, Scott Santens, Mike Tamir, PhD, Evan Selinger, Brian Solis, Dr. Marigo Raftopoulos, Gerd Leonhard, John Hagel, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Brooks Rainwater
youtube.com
Do You Love Me?
youtube.com
2020-12-29 · Our whole crew got together to celebrate the start of what we hope will be a happier year: Happy New Year from all of us at Boston Dynamics. www.BostonDyna... · Shared by 421, including Marc R Gagné MAPP 🍁, Dr. Alec Couros, Balaji Srinivasan, Chris Skinner, bernieborges, Soumith Chintala, Kara Swisher, wil shipley, Cliff Bleszinski, Michael Mina, van Schneider, davidcowan, AGI.Eth | AIKing.Eth, hiten.eth, Bit Rebels, Steve Troughton-Smith, Andreas Staub, Barry Schwartz, Marcel Salathé, Tamara McCleary
The Star Halifax
35 years ago, Isaac Asimov was asked by the Star to predict the world of 2019. Here…
The Star Halifax
~13 min read · From 2018 · The famed science fiction writer was wrong about a world government, but pretty close on robots. On computers, though ... · Shared by 355, including 𝐦𝐫𝐯𝐧 , Pat Kua, Katja Evertz, Brian Roemmele, Andres Oppenheimer, Kevin Kelly, Dominik Grolimund, Herbert Bay, Marie-Christine Schindler, Liliane Ferrari ™, Ines Bieler, Philip Stehlik, Sunnie J. Groeneveld, Rachel Miller | #InfluencerMarketing, Oliver Gassner / @oliverg@mastodon.social 💉🖖💚🎓, Matthias Sala, Klaus Eck, Simon Wüthrich, Tac Anderson
Harvard Business Review
The Future of Human Work Is Imagination, Creativity, and Strategy
Harvard Business Review
6 min read · From 2018 · Rethink the role of people in your organization. · Shared by 346, including Birgit Schefer, Merkstatt, james, Glyn Britton, Victor Tolosa, Christian P. Stobbe, Katja Evertz, Josep M. Ganyet, David Cant ~👷♂️, Michelle Boisson, Thomas Pleil, Rodrigo Prior, osioke.eth, Jonathan Kogan, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, Bernhard Huessy, Moritz Orendt, Lucas Foster, Gerd Leonhard, Nick Floro
Guardian Tech
AI ethicist Kate Darling: ‘Robots can be our partners’
Guardian Tech
5 min read · 2021-04-17 · The MIT researcher says that for humans to flourish we must move beyond thinking of robots as potential future competitors · Shared by 297, including Jeff Jarvis, Nicolas Babin #CES2023, Memen Isimo, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Jana Eggers, Tamara McCleary, Kate Darling, Chi Mai, Amber Mac, Ian M Calvert, Joanna J Bryson, MIT SA+P, Tiffani Bova, Clemens M. Schuster, Dr. Marcell Vollmer 🇺🇦 #StaySafe & Carpe Diem, James Gingerich, @Expeflow #WorkEasier #RPA
sciencefocus.com
It's time to accept AI will never think like a human
sciencefocus.com
3 min read · May 8th · It’s no point getting frustrated with AI when it doesn’t do what we expect it to. Instead, we should focus on the ways it can help and support people. · Shared by 291, including Kate Darling, Stephan Woodtli, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Nige Willson
Futurism
Google's artificial intelligence built an AI that outperforms any made by humans
Futurism
3 min read · From 2017 · The applications range from autonomous cars to robots that can “see.” · Shared by 286, including Christian Kloeppel, Mo Schuster, Merkstatt, Bertrand Maltaverne, Thomas Power, haldimann, Balthasar Glättli🌻 🕊, Jacob Jarnvall, Nicolas Berg, Howard Getson, Oleg Baskov, Yvette Dubel, Stephen C Sanders, Nils Hitze, Nico Müller 🇺🇦, Thomas Telandro, Sibylle Trenck-Germann, Klaus Eck, Harald Ille
MIT Technology Review
If AI is going to help us in a crisis, we need a new kind of ethics
MIT Technology Review
3 min read · From 2020 · Jess Whittlestone at the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge and her colleagues published a comment piece in Nature Machine Intelligence this week arguing… · Shared by 281, including Ines Bieler, Elinor Stutz, Ferit (at 🏠) 🌙, Chris Isak , Harold Sinnott #DigitalTransformation, Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, 🟣 Antonio Vieira Santos #FutureOfWork #InnoTrans2, ipfconline #CES2023, Thomas Power, Theodora (Theo) Lau - 劉䂀曼 🌻, Sean Gardner, Bob E. Hayes, Tamara McCleary, Terence Mills, Nige Willson
The Verge
Amazon announces its first fully autonomous mobile warehouse robot
The Verge
2 min read · Jun 22nd · Amazon is showing off several robotic projects. · Shared by 264, including Evan Kirstel the $B2B Techfluencer, Michael (मुकेश) 🇺🇦💪🏻, Cyril Coste #DigitalTransformation, Amber Mac, Marsha Collier, Martin Ford
