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Recycling Industry Deploys Robots to Help Workers Social Distance
One trend to keep an eye on is that we’re likely nearing the end of requiring repetitive, unchanging movements for efficient production processes.Nonrepetitive movements are fundamentally an information problem - they require some method of telling a machine the state of the surrounding environment, and what to do depending on what that state is.
Brian Potter • Why did agriculture mechanize and not construction?
Stockwell, the AI-vending machine startup formerly known as Bodega, is shutting down July 1
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The third major force likely to disrupt employment in the retail sector will be the introduction of increased automation and robotics into stores as brick and mortar retailers strive to remain competitive.
Martin Ford • Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Based on taps, clicks, and sales, an algorithm doubles the production quota, which is immediately updated on the factory floor with extra materials automatically ordered. A second algorithm updates the weightings and recommends the item to more users with similar profiles.