Evan Ackerman
Senior Editor at IEEE Spectrum
Senior editor at @IEEESpectrum. I hug robots.
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3 days ago |
spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman
The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is maknig right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories.
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3 days ago |
evdriven.com | Evan Ackerman
The main assumption about humanoid robotics that the industry is making right now is that the most realistic near-term pathway to actually making money is in either warehouses or factories.
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6 days ago |
spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman
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.
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1 week ago |
spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman
As far as I can make out, Amazon’s warehouses are highly structured, extremely organized, very tidy, absolute raging messes. Everything in an Amazon warehouse is (usually) exactly where it’s supposed to be, which is typically jammed into some pseudorandom fabric bin the size of a shoebox along with a bunch of other pseudorandom crap.
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1 week ago |
spectrum.ieee.org | Evan Ackerman
At an event in Dortmund, Germanytoday, Amazon announced a new robotic system called Vulcan, which the company is calling “its first robotic system with a genuine sense of touch—designed to transform how robots interact with the physical world.” In the short to medium term, the physical world that Amazon is most concerned with is its warehouses, and Vulcan is designed to assist (or take over, depending on your perspective) with stowing and picking items in its mobile robotic inventory system.
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Back on Twitter for just a sec to share this amazing visual story on @IEEESpectrum about how we might build the humanoid robot of our dreams: https://t.co/HUp0dMhPai
Finally, A Flying Car(t): Where’s your flying car? I’m sorry to say that I have no idea. But here’s something that is somewhat similar, in that it flies, transports things, and has “car” in the name: it’s a flying cart, called the Palletrone… https://t.co/zdpO88f5Q5 https://t.co/y9Wo45X6PC
Video Friday: Zipline Delivers: 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… https://t.co/y42JMy3Juu https://t.co/6DpPgFbzDY