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In this webcast, we interview Jacob Turner, a UK-based barrister, who has written a book called Robot Rules: Regulating Artificial Intelligence.
He makes a presentation, providing definitions and parameters of current robotics, automation, and artificial intelligence technologies.
He also offers his insights into laws governing current technologies such as autonomous cars and share-trading systems.
In this webcast interview, Lior Elazary, CEO, inVia Robotics, talks about his company, which makes robots for warehouse and supply chain operations.
As growth in the U.S. economy continues and manufacturers create more and more jobs in a thriving sector, the industry’s pre-existing workforce crisis could get even worse according to a new 2018 skills gap study, released by Deloitte and The Manufacturing Institute.
The widening manufacturing skills gap is expected to grow from about 488,000 jobs left open today to as many as 2.4 million manufacturing jobs going unfilled between this year and 2028 (compared with 2 million jobs between 2015 and 2025 per an earlier study).
In turn, $454 billion in manufacturing GDP could be at risk in 2028, or more than $2.5 trillion over the next decade.
[Read more…] about US skills gap worsens in manufacturing – new report
The rapid growth of smart products and smart factories is transforming the engineering services industry as never before, and providers are responding by digitalizing virtually every facet of their services portfolio, according to a new study from Information Services Group, a global technology research and advisory firm.
The latest ISG Provider Lens Quadrant report, the first ever by ISG to evaluate engineering services providers serving the US market, notes providers are moving to address the digital elements of core engineering functions – from concept and physical product development, to optimization of industrial design and operations, to software product and applications software development.
Esteban Herrera, partner and global head of ISG Research, says: “Transforming from a traditional to an agile business environment is key. [Read more…] about Smart products and factories transforming engineering services industry
Yamaha Motor has made a second investment of $8 million into an agricultural automation and robotics innovator, bringing its total investment to $10 million.
Robotics Plus, a New Zealand agricultural robotics and automation company, says it will use the investment support its “ambitious growth plans”.
Yamaha’s initial partnership agreement and investment of $2 million was announced in March 2018. [Read more…] about Yamaha Motor invests an additional $8 million in agritech startup Robotics Plus
In this webinar, Keyssa’s VP marketing, Steve Venuti, and CTO, Roger Isaac, explain some of the features and benefits of the company’s innovative connectors, which have a wide range of applications in robotics, automotive and other industries. (See video below.)
ABB has inaugurated its new ABB Xiamen Hub in the city’s Torch Hi-Tech Industrial Park.
The new site integrates the full value chain of ABB’s activities, including R&D, engineering, manufacturing, sales and service, as well as supply chain management and corporate functions.
Constructed and equipped using the latest environmentally sound materials and systems, including ABB’s record-breaking fast-charging stations for electric vehicles, the site sets new standards in sustainability.
[Read more…] about ABB inaugurates advanced innovation and manufacturing hub in Xiamen
A new book is looking beyond Asimov’s so-called “Three Laws of Robotics” to practical, real-world problems currently being discussed because of increasingly autonomous machines.
For millennia, the laws governing society have had one subject: humans. The new book Robot Rules explores how we might rewrite laws for artificial intelligence.
Who or what should be liable if an intelligent machine harms a person or property? Is it ever wrong to damage or destroy a robot? Can AI be made to follow moral rules? How should AI even be treated – as an object, a subject, or a person? [Read more…] about New book: ‘Robot Rules’ – Beyond Asimov’s ‘Three Laws of Robotics’
ZF claims to now offer the broadest range of hybrid and all-electric drive solutions for almost every vehicle segment.
In 2008, ZF was the first company in Europe to volume-produce hybrid modules – a technology that reduces CO2 emissions by up to 70 percent compared to vehicles with combustion engines.
In the meantime, many manufacturers are now producing a variety of car models equipped with the 8-speed plug-in hybrid transmission (8P) that features a longitudinally-mounted drive.
[Read more…] about ZF claims broadest portfolio of hybrid and electric drive solutions
In partnership with Intelligent Automation in Life Science
Robotic process automation, sometimes called “intelligent automation”, simply put, refers to the use of software to perform routine or repetitive tasks.
An overly simple example might be setting up an auto-response on your email account for when you’re not around to answer a sender’s email yourself.
But that really is a gross over-simplification compared to what RPA can do. In theory, any task currently completed by a human could be done with RPA. [Read more…] about The growth of robotic process automation in life sciences and pharma
