Category Robotics

The Future Has Arrived – Work Futures

The Future Has Arrived - Work Futures

One of the barriers to robots taking over in warehouses has been demolished. Knapp Robot using Covariant.ai software The day we were worried about has arrived. Remember all the pundits telling us that robots were not up to the task…

Boston Dynamics Robot Dog Now Open Source Code

Boston Dynamics‘ robot dog Spot has gone through extensive updates in order to become the finished product it is today, and now the Softbank-owned company will make the bot’s SDK available to everyone via GitHub. The release will allow developers…

Like It or Not, Automation Is Coming

Like It or Not, Automation Is Coming

More than a century ago, the great composer John Philip Sousa worried about the future of his profession. He feared that a new invention, the record player, would render obsolete “the ennobling discipline of learning music,” putting professional musicians out…

You’ve Heard Of Robots; What Are Cobots

You’ve Heard Of Robots; What Are Cobots

Getty Czech writer Karel Čapek first coined the term ‘Robot’ in his 1920 play R.U.R. about a dystopian future in which artificial, manufactured “roboti” act human-like and perform tasks in servitude to their human masters, only to later form a…