Whenever a new robot comes out, the world is amazed. We have seen some truly incredible robots in the past few years. Technology in robotics and automation is becoming so advance and sophisticated that we are seeing robots created that we thought could only exist in science fiction. But the more the technology advances, the… Read more »
The next generation of industrial robots is going to make factory robotic arms look obsolete. The automated machinery we’re familiar with today is enormous, super heavy, and expensive. They’re often difficult to program and generally too unsafe to deploy around human workers with out some sort of protective barrier. However, we are approaching a new… Read more »
You may have heard of a little internet company called Google. A survey conducted by Pew reports that 91% of adults on the internet use search engines to find the information they’re looking for. Google processes an average of 40,000 user searches every second of the day! At that rate, Google processes over 3.5 billions… Read more »
Wearable technology — is that a thing? We’re here to tell you that wearable technology is definitely a thing now. The 1960s television show Get Smart oracled the use of wearable technology in the form of a shoe phone. Whether it was due to tech issues or for sanitary reasons, the shoe phone never came… Read more »
3D printers are responsible for plenty of changes. The variety of items that can be produced using a 3D printer is almost staggering. Clothes, food, robots, and even human organs can all be printed. It’s pretty wild to imagine that in the future you could buy a 3D printer and a few spools of fibers,… Read more »
The world that we live in has always been and will forever be changing. People have had to make changes in order to keep up with advancements in everything from technology to science to thought. Whether it’s in business or education, simply failing to stay current can be a step backwards. Traditionalists might say that… Read more »
If you want advancement, you need forward thinkers. If everyone is content with the state of things, or if no one is thinking in terms of what’s next, there will be no progression. Luckily, it’s human nature to dream, to have big ideas about what could be. One of the reasons the robotics industry is… Read more »
A recent survey conducted by the Harvard Business School suggests that employers would rather hire robots than humans. The survey was given to HBS alumni, and is conducted annually. Almost 46% percent of the firms surveyed said that they would rather invest in and employ technology to fulfill labor needs than hire human workers. Only… Read more »
It seems like everything is becoming automated. From cars that drive themselves, to computers that check you out at the grocery store, to hotel bellhops that run on electricity, the number of things that are completely automated is growing at a faster rate than ever before. This increased demand for automation doesn’t seem likely to… Read more »
Soft robots seems like an oxymoron. Robots are supposed to be made of metal. Metal is hard, therefore a robot can’t be soft right? Maybe soft refers to a robot’s demeanor rather than a physical characteristic. You know, like a robot mom who doesn’t ground her robot son when he’s late for curfew would be… Read more »