The US service-sector jobs at risk from a robot revolution
Sam Fleming for Financial Times: When Andy Puzder, chief executive of restaurant chains Carl’s Jr and Hardee’s, said in March that rising employment costs could drive the spread of automation in the fast-food sector, he tapped into a growing anxiety in the US.
From touchscreen ordering systems to burger-flipping robots and self-driving trucks, automation is stalking an increasing number of professions in the country’s service sector, which employs the vast majority of the workforce.
Two-fifths of US employees are in occupations where at least half their time is spent doing activities that could be automated by adapting technology already available, according to research from the McKinsey Global Institute. These include the three biggest occupations in the country: retail salespeople, store cashiers and workers preparing and serving food, collectively totalling well over 10m people.
Yet evidence of human obsolescence is conspicuous by its absence in the US’s economic statistics. The country is in the midst of its longest private-sector hiring spree on record, adding 14.4m jobs over 73 straight months, and productivity grew only 1.4 per cent a year from 2007 to 2014, compared with 2.2 per cent from 1953 to 2007. Those three big occupations all grew 1-3 per cent from 2014 to 2015. Cont'd...
Panasonic Announces Winners of 25th Annual Creative Design Challenge Robotics Competition Finals
Initiative Underlines Importance of STEM Education
Indiegogo - Leka Announces Indiegogo Campaign to Develop Robotic Smart Toy for Children with Developmental Disorders
Leka Brings Accessible Teaching Tool to Parents, Therapists and Caregivers of Children with Developmental Disorders, Such as Autism and Down Syndrome
RE2 Robotics Delivers Highly Dexterous Manipulation System to the U.S. Army
RE2s dual-arm manipulation system improves EOD robot capabilities
Khronos Releases OpenVX 1.1 Specification for High Performance, Low Power Computer Vision Acceleration
Expanded range of processing functions; Enhanced flexibility for data access and processing; Full conformance tests available; Safety Critical specification in development
Innovators offered chance to develop their ideas with world leading robotics manufacturer ABB Robotics
Full Press Release: The IdeaHub, is once again recruiting robotics and software innovators worldwide to take on the challenge of improving the way we work and interact with the next generation of industrial robots. Working on behalf of ABB Robotics, IdeaHub will help successful applicants pitch their ideas and secure uniquely tailored support packages to maximise their venture's commercial potential, including investment, mentoring and access to cutting edge hardware.
The IdeaHub is a cross sector, open innovation platform that connects visionaries worldwide with funding and support from global corporations. In 2015 they ran their first programme for ABB Robotics, attracting over 130 applicants with 12 finalists selected for a pitch day in London, with 6 entrepreneurs receiving an offer of support. For 2016 they are partnering with ABB Robotics once again to bring more solutions to solve three core challenges in the world collaborative industrial robotics:
1.) Simplicity: How to simplify robotics
2.) Intelligence: How to enable robots to learn and apply that learning
3.) Digitalization: How smart
connectivity will enhance digital factories.
Innovators offered chance to develop their ideas with world leading robotics manufacturer ABB Robotics
The IdeaHub is a cross sector, open innovation platform that connects visionaries worldwide with funding and support from global corporations.
GeckoSystems' Japanese Partners Demonstrating Multi-Million Dollar AI Robot Technologies
GeckoSystems' AI mobile robot solutions include --required for safe utility-- human quick AI sense/avoid reflex time of moving and/or unmapped obstacles for safe auto-following, errand running, patrolling, etc. GeckoSystems traded on OTC as GOSY.
XPONENTIAL - Setting New Industry Benchmarks in Size, Weight & Power, Quanergy Announces New LiDAR Sensor
S3-Qi keeps Quanergy at forefront of LiDAR sensor advancements
DARPA Exhibit to Open at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry
"DARPA: Redefining Possible" to showcase past technological breakthroughs, current projects and future possibilities
GeckoSystems' Japanese JV Securing $1,000,000 for Eldercare Companion Robot R&D
GeckoSystems has proprietary mobile robot self-navigation technologies that provide human quick AI sense/avoid of unmapped obstacles for safe auto-following, errand running, patrolling, etc.
New Pipe Inspection Robot from STRAHL LLC: Focus on Results and Affordability
Motorized German-made pipe crawler GECKO 9050 with Kevlar-reinforced water- and acid-proof 100 to 150 meter cable, and advanced camera head. Pan-and-tilt camera head is default, optional extra wheels, camera head raiser for easy centering and a sonde locator are available.
5D Robotics Acquires Industrial Business and Assets of Aerial MOB, LLC
New aerial division will drive future innovations in robotics and aerospace industries
RE2 Robotics Wins Federal Laboratory Consortium Achievement Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer
-- RE2 Partners with the Space and Naval Systems Center Pacific to validate
open architecture and interoperability for EOD robots --
Crowdfunding Projects For April
Here are a few projects we think are worth looking into. Be careful... it is crowdfunding.
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Mobile Robots - Featured Product
3MP HDR IP69K Camera for Robotics & Autonomous Vehicles
STURDeCAM31 from e-con Systems® is designed to make robotics and autonomous vehicles safer and more reliable. Powered by the Sony® ISX031 sensor and featuring GMSL2 interface, this compact 3MP camera delivers 120dB HDR + LFM imaging with zero motion blur — even in the most challenging outdoor conditions. Engineered to automotive-grade standards, STURDeCAM31 is IP69K certified, making it resistant to dust, water, vibration, and extreme temperatures. With support for up to 8 synchronized cameras, it enables powerful surround-view and bird's eye systems on NVIDIA® Jetson AGX Orin™.
Robotics and Automation - Featured Company
MVTec LLC
MVTec is a leading international manufacturer of software for machine vision used in all demanding areas of imaging like the semi-conductor industry, inspection, optical quality control, metrology, medicine or surveillance. In particular, software by MVTec enables new automation solutions in settings of the Industrial Internet of Things. MVTec is the developer and vendor of the general purpose machine vision software products HALCON and MERLIC.
