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Warehouse Robots to Automate Your Living Room

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A couple decades ago Kiva Systems had the brilliant and certainly very valuable realization that it was possible to make an entire environment (like a fulfillment warehouse) robotic without filling that entire environment with robots. So what if you take that philosophy out of the warehouse and into your living room ?

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Sanctuary’s Humanoid Robot Is for General Purpose Autonomy

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All the talk about completing tasks like a person, and human-like intelligence—which honestly sounds a lot like the kind of meaningless hype that you often find in breathless robotics press releases—is in fact a reflection of how Sanctuary thinks that humanoid robots should be designed and programmed to maximize their flexibility and usefulness.

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Wall-Climbing Robot Shelves to Keep You Organized

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The main goal was to quickly build a series of functional prototypes (here I call them "SORT" which stands for "Self-Organizing Robot Team") to conduct user studies to understand different people's preferences and perceptions toward this organizer concept.

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This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

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Title Head, Renesas -Tata Consultancy Services Joint Innovation Center Member grade Senior member Alma maters Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, in Delhi, India; University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada “The idea is to enable more end-to-end solutions for India as well as other global markets,” he says.

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The Heart and the Chip: What Could Go Wrong?

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Or, even simpler: swarms of flying digital projectors could have broadcasted the footage on the sides of buildings and walls for all to see. For example, we could require study of the Manhattan Project and the moral and ethical quandaries associated with the phenomenal effort to build and use the atomic bomb.

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IEEE President's Note: Focusing on Members in Uncertain Times

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The mission helps IEEE build its international community of technologists—regardless of nationality—to encourage friendship, support peaceful cooperation, and further the exchange of ideas. We are open, diverse, and inclusive, and we hold our fellow members personally accountable for their behavior, and not for the actions of others.

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Developing the Next Generation of AI Assistant

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And while cooking may be a part of the project to provide proof-of-concept in a low-stakes environment, the work lays the foundation to one day be used for everything from guiding mechanics through complex repair jobs to combat medics performing life-saving surgeries on the battlefield.