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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboCup 2024: 17–22 July 2024, EINDHOVEN, NETHERLANDSICSR 2024: 23–26 October 2024, ODENSE, DENMARKCybathlon 2024: 25–27 October 2024, ZURICH Enjoy today’s videos! Do you have trouble multitasking? Cyborgize yourself through muscle stimulation to automate repetitive physical tasks while you focus on something else. By combining a 5,000 frame-per-second (FPS) event camera with a 20 FPS ...... Read Full article on GretAi

Artificial intelligence is the big thing right now, with industries from finance to health care to retail scrambling to adopt AI or risk being left behind. But speaking as professors of business, we think some companies might be jumping the gun. Our recent research suggests that service providers shouldn’t automatically jump on the AI bandwagon. Instead, they should make a choice informed by their strategy. In short, when it comes to AI and service firms, more isn’t necessarily better. Why service providers face a different calculation Are you a manufacturer? Then if AI reduces your costs without lowering quality and gives you the r...... Read Full article on GretAi

The incident of a woman misidentified by facial recognition technology at a Rotorua supermarket should have come as no surprise. When Foodstuffs North Island announced its intention to trial this technology in February, as part of a strategy to combat retail crime, technology and privacy experts immediately raised concerns. In particular, the risk of Māori women and women of colour being discriminated against was raised, and has now been borne out by what happened in early April to Te Ani Solomon. Speaking to media this week, Solomon said she thought ethnicity was a “huge factor” in her wrongful identification. “Unfortunately, it wi...... Read Full article on GretAi

ABB introduces the OmniCore™ V-line robot controllers, the V250XT Type B and V400XT, which feature a powerful and versatile cooling system. These controllers are equipped with robust and easy-to-clean cooling channels, along with compact external radio fans that provide reliable cooling even in harsh environments with an IP65 rating. Not only does this cooling system reduce noise levels, but it also increases the overall cooling capacity. With the OmniCore™ V-line controllers, ABB is closing the loop for their robot controller family, ensuring maximum productivity, flexibility, and energy efficiency for a wide range of applications. For more...... Read Full article on GretAi

About a year ago, Zipline introduced Platform 2, an approach to precision urban drone delivery that combines a large hovering drone with a smaller package-delivery “Droid.” Lowered on a tether from the belly of its parent Zip drone, the Droid contains thrusters and sensors (plus a 2.5- to 3.5-kilogram payload) to reliably navigate itself to a delivery area of just one meter in diameter. The Zip, meanwhile, safely remains hundreds of meters up. After depositing its payload, the Droid rises back up to the drone on its tether, and off they go.At first glance, the sensor and thruster-packed Droid seems complicated enough to be bordering on impra...... Read Full article on GretAi

You’ve seen this before: a truck unloading robot that’s made up of a mobile base with an arm on it that drives up into the back of a trailer and then uses suction to grab stacked boxes and put them onto a conveyor belt. We’ve written about a couple of the companies doing this, and there are even more out there. It’s easy to understand why—trailer unloading involves a fairly structured and controlled environment with a very repetitive task, it’s a hard job that sucks for humans, and there’s an enormous amount of demand. While it’s likely true that there’s enough room for a whole bunch of different robotics companies in the trailer unloadi...... Read Full article on GretAi

The persistent economic challenges facing manufacturing persist with regional inflation, global conflicts, an aging workforce, disruptions in the supply chain, health epidemics, and other compounding factors, each playing a role. Business owners who reassess their strategy and consider automation are ahead of the curve. As demonstrated throughout the COVID pandemic, businesses equipped with automation were more resilient to shifts when compared to their counterparts. ASME noted that “investing in automation and robotics was one way companies coped with the loss of workers.” Manual jobs like palletizing were relatively straightforward to ...... Read Full article on GretAi

In 2009, an Air France jet crashed into the ocean, leaving no survivors. The plane’s autopilot system shut down and the pilots, having become reliant on their computerised assistant, were unable to correct the situation manually. In 2015, a bus driver in Europe typed the wrong destination into his GPS device and cheerfully took a group of Belgian tourists on a 1,200 kilometre detour in the wrong direction. In 2017, in a decision later overturned on appeal, US prosecutors who had agreed to release a teenager on probation abruptly changed their minds because an algorithm ruled the defendant “high risk”. These are dramatic examples, but...... Read Full article on GretAi