When it comes to lingering racism in the U.S., robots should be the least of our worries. But researchers continue seeing problems, and as automation becomes more and more central to our lives, we need to pay attention to the possible consequences. AI and racism One problem is that AI works only on the data… Read more »
Robots have trouble doing a lot of basic things, including delivering pizza and rescuing people, because they have limited ability to handle uncontrolled environments. Lacking full senses, not to mention common sense, robots often fall apart — or just fall down — when they meet surprises. U.S. robot makers are working hard to improve robots’… Read more »
Safety and productivity are linked in an obvious way in industrial settings: when people get hurt, it slows down and even stops the production process. Clearing the floor, cleaning things up, identifying the problem, instituting new safety procedures or making changes to the machinery — all these steps disrupt production. There’s another, less obvious link…. Read more »
It’s the Consumer Electronic Show, not the Industrial Electronics Show, so it probably makes sense that CES went with cute robots, or at least robots that were trying to be cute. We’ve already written about the Rollbot, a teddy bear themed robot intended to bring you a roll of toilet paper if you run out… Read more »
If you’ve ever had a car serviced at a regular old mechanic, you’ve probably had after-market parts put on that came either from a different manufacturer (other than your car maker) or something worse. Many mechanics visit junkyards and rip pieces of other cars off to repair your car. Wonder why that fan you had… Read more »
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania is home to one of the plants owned by Bosch Rexroth, the parent company of the Rexroth electrical industrial motion control systems in which we specialize. When you need service or support for any Rexroth electric drive and control machinery, call us at (479) 422-0390 for immediate assistance. The Bethlehem local news source, the… Read more »
Risk of burns by hot housing surfaces! Risk of injury by improper handling! Injury by crushing, shearing, cutting, hitting! Risk of injury by improper handling of batteries! Risk of injury by improper handling of pressurized lines! It sounds a little like someone did a really bad job on an old horror movie poster. Maybe not… Read more »
Rexroth motion control components communicate with you — even the legacy units do their best to tell you what’s wrong when they have a problem. When your DKC or Indradrive lets you know that error code F209 has cropped up, you can conclude that your parameters have changed. If you’ve recently changed your firmware, this… Read more »
The annual Consumer Electronics Show is the place to find out what’s new and what’s coming in consumer electronics. Charmin, a maker of toilet paper, got serious this year with several new ideas. One is a small autonomous vehicle designed to bring a roll of toilet tissue to someone in need. It uses infrared sensors… Read more »
Business consultancy Sykes wondered whether the hype about the changing future of work was really worrying Americans or not. Their conclusion? Not. Asked what they thought about robots — and given a choice between paraphrases for “Tools that can help me” and “Things that will take my job” — two thirds thought of robots as… Read more »
