This Is Robotics: Radio News #12

WHAT’S NEW IN ROBOTICS?What’s New in Robotics? Travels to an Indonesian village, the Czech Republic, then Sweden, and finally California News briefs take a look at an exosuit or wearable robot to manage spastic muscles for those afflicted with multiple sclerosis (MS) and cerebral palsy (CP), followed homemade ingenuity in service robots with a service robot that has a rice cooker for a head; followed by a 3D-printed cobot arm that actually “works”, and finally the 45-second pizza, robot-made in a moving truck…only in CAROBO AI NEWS (NEW WEBSITE)We have launched a new website that’s rapidly building itself out and nearing completion. It’s called RoboAINews (roboainews.com), and it’s located at roboainews.com. As its name denotes, it’s a website all about “smart robots” the convergence, that we see happening day by day, the inevitable convergence between robots and artificial intelligence. It’s a major step up for both robots and the rest of us, as “smart robots” are already changing the entire direction of robotics technology.THE DEMISE OF DUMB The rise of “smart” robots for factory and warehouse. A new generation of robots is on the rise, and their calling card reads, smart! A new type of robot, the “smart” robot, is quickening into reality. Robots (especially cobots) and mobile machines are getting interconnected with multiple sensors and onboard compute power, all imbued with artificial intelligence /machine learning (AI/ML), data analytics and cloud computing.  WORLD ROBOTICS THROUGH THE YEAR 2030Boston Consulting Group has put an interesting lens to the next decade of robotics, highlighting “seven unfolding developments that will influence the direction of robotics in the next ten years.”Heartfelt Thanks for Making This Is Robotics the #1 Global Robotics News Podcast