Gartner Risk & Audit produced a report on emerging risks, and generative AI leads the pack. The Quarterly Emerging Risk Report follows up on six AI-related risks Gartner had previously identified: Fabricated and inaccurate answers Data privacy (or the lack thereof) Bias (which we’ve already seen in hiring software) Intellectual and copyright risks Cyber fraud… Read more »
You like to keep extra batteries around the house, or a couple of replacement tire tubes for your bicycle in the garage. It’s reasonable to want to keep spare Indramat repair parts on hand. Downtime costs rack up quickly, and you want to fix your Indramat system as soon as you possibly can. There are… Read more »
Humanoid robots are getting all the press these days. Most robots are of course not humanoid, but the dozen or so that are put there have caught the public’s fancy in a way that industrial robots generally don’t. Especially with AI and Large Language Model involvement, humanoid robots are beginning to elicit questions. Should they… Read more »
Quite simply, automation makes our lives easier. Automatic windows in our cars keep us from fiddling with a mechanical crank to get a breeze, automated bill paying ensures that we never forget to pay the electric bill, and how would we ever get our grocery carts out of the store without automatic doors? Sometimes automation… Read more »
Having machinery that can let you know when it’s about to need a new valve is very useful. A printer that reorders ink before it runs out is handy. But do we really need smart pants? What’s smart about the pants? Brazilian university researchers created a pair of pants with fiber optic cables. Sensors in… Read more »
As automation technologies improve, we find that we are able to automate more and more aspects of our daily life. Most people under 30 haven’t heard of a travel agent, we can check ourselves out at the grocery store, and we don’t even know how much our utilities cost each month because they’re auto-drafted. Oxford… Read more »
Needing an Indramat repair may be your worst nightmare. Seeing a mysterious Indramat error code, hearing the unsettling absence of the sound of your factory machinery, and knowing that each second your system is down is costing you money will rattle even the most hardened plant owner. But don’t worry. Indramat repair is easy… sort… Read more »
We were sorry to report that child labor has become a problem in the United States, but things are getting worse before they get better. We hope they will get better, and one good sign is the fact that the Department of Labor has establish4ed a task force on child labor to nip the problem… Read more »
The status indicator on Indramat drives is one of the great features of Indramat motion control systems. When something goes wrong, you don’t have to waste time guessing and checking at random to diagnose the problem. The error code is clearly displayed, allowing you to take remedial steps and clear the error quickly. Of course… Read more »
Robots aren’t just for manufacturing and space travel anymore. We see them in a surprising range of jobs: Robot waiters Robot therapists Robot nurses Robot fry cooks Robot manicurists But what about robot rabbis? Research on robot rabbis You might think that a robot rabbi is an obviously bad idea and not something anyone would… Read more »