Before stepping into Plenty Inc.’s indoor farm on the banks of the San Francisco Bay, make sure you’re wearing pants and closed-toe shoes. Heels aren’t allowed. If you have long hair, tie it back.
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Non-tech businesses are beginning to use artificial intelligence at scale
LIE DETECTORS ARE not widely used in business, but Ping An, a Chinese insurance company, thinks it can spot dishonesty.
The sunny and the dark side of AI
MENTION ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, and most people will think of robots. But a more fitting image may be that of Janus, the Roman god of beginnings, transitions and endings, who has two faces looking in opposite directions.
Microsoft HoloLens: How mixed reality is finding fans in the hard hat gang | ZDNet
So far, the people who are really using mixed reality headsets like Microsoft’s Hololens are in industry, which is why an integrated hard hat was so keenly-awaited.
The Transformer of Autonomous Farmbots Can Do 100 Jobs on Its Own
THE FIRST FULLY autonomous ground vehicles hitting the market aren’t cars or delivery trucks—they’re robo-farmhands.
How Manufacturing Automation Is Evolving – Robotics Business Review
Manufacturing automation has been common since the 1970s. Advances in technology, including robotics, big data, machine learning, artificial intelligence, and the Internet of Things have improved factory production since then.
Burger-flipping robot taken offline
Flippy the burger-flipping robot that started work this week in a California restaurant has been forced to take a break because it was too slow.
Burger-flipping robot begins first shift
Flippy, a burger-flipping robot, has begun work at a restaurant in Pasadena, Los Angeles.
Forecasters should have seen this coming: their replacement by robots
A new year rarely triggers a change in the business and investment environment. Trends don’t alter merely because a new calendar is hung on the office wall.
SecondHands Project Unveils Robot Prototype for Ocado’s Warehouses
The SecondHands project has presented the first prototype of its collaborative robot. The cobot which will act as the main platform for testing and developing new technologies related to the maintenance and repair of automation equipment in Ocado’s highly automated warehouses.
No need to fear the rise of the machines
In the early 1960s, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, there was a disagreement about what computers would achieve.
