The STEM Renaissance Project is a vision for a project to advance the state of the art in STEM Education & Learning.

This initiative will broaden STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) learning to encompass a broad range of disciplines and skills including entrepreneurship, business development, leadership, and innovation.

This home of this initiative is a one-of-a-kind facility will integrate a technology, innovation, and art museum; 2,500 seat arena; exposition hall; innovation & creativity laboratory; general purpose science lab; classrooms; lecture halls; machine and workshop; technology and business incubators; television studio, and cafeteria. The arenas design will be optimized to accommodate STEM competitions, exhibitions and conferences. This is expected to be the first facility of this type in the world, a facility that is purpose built to support the high impact STEM competitions that are emerging in the 21st century.

The facility described here is designed to house a multi-disciplinary set of initiative that will support teacher production and development, business development and incubation, Informal STEM Learning and Competition Support, product innovation and development, and engineering and scientific research.

This initiative is a celebration of STEM learning, made visible by creating an architecturally iconic facility that will be recognized around the world.

This visionary concept is a Big Bang idea, supporting and celebrating STEM activities as a vital part of our world community.

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Just before Easter, while Danville high schools were on spring break, Vikram Gopalan saw a YouTube video about a group in Alabama making face shields using 3D printers.

"Check out this link," the San Ramon Valley High School (SRVHS) junior immediately texted to some of his classmates. "I think we as a team have the skill set, experience and determination to do something like this for our area. We have the infrastructure to organize this, and it's the kind of thing FIRST Robotics Competition has been preparing us for."

Indeed it was, especially considering how quickly the Danville high school's robotics team got to work.

Three days later, on April 12, the students launched a professional-looking website for their initiative named Danville Fighting COVID. Their goal: to rally local makers and craftspeople to join them in creating personal protection equipment (PPE) for medical front-line workers and to help stock local food banks through donations and well-organized, hygienic deliveries.

Radhika Gawde, a senior and robotics team member who is serving as project manager, credits their previous experience as competitive engineers to quickly draw up and execute a plan.

"We had a white board and came up with what I call our 'high-level battle plan,'" she said.

3D-printed headpieces intended for face shields were made at San Ramon Valley High School facilities.

Laying the groundwork, Gawde said, was the easy part, thanks to the team's experience collaborating on both robotics and the fundraising required to participate in national competitions. The challenge has been getting their hands on available 3D printers, as well as sourcing face shield materials.

But, she noted, they are on track so far to meet their goal of delivering 200 face shields, and any other PPE equipment they can gather from the community, to Kaiser Permanent and John Muir Health in Walnut Creek on Saturday.

The initiative is run by a core of 12 students, most from SRVHS, plus a few friends from Monte Vista High School, also in Danville. In addition to providing links for those who want to make monetary donations to local food banks, the students are organizing drop sites for food donations that they will then sort, sanitize and deliver. The website also has patterns for making face shields, places to donate materials, links for donating meals to first responders and other COVID-related groups.

With spring break over, the students are back in class, and happy to have a sense of purpose. What's hardest, said Gawde, is that they'll never get to travel to the robotics competition for which they'd been preparing all year.

"And we still have to pass all our classes," she noted. "But we're not doing that much. It's the health care workers who are working so hard. If there's a way we can support that, we definitely want to."

Editor's note: Story by Lisa Wrenn, Bay City News Foundation. See the original story presentation on the BCN Foundation site.

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Service Robotics Market Segmentation, Application, Technology, Analysis Research Report and Forecast to 2026 - Cole of Duty

Fear and apprehension relating to the potential of new generations of robots leading to mass unemployment tends to move up a notch whenever a shiny new piece of artificial intelligence (AI)-powered technology is unveiled.

One of the few instances where that was not the case was the recent announcement by Irish company Akara Robotics that it had developed a virus-killing robot with the ability to disinfect hospitals and get rid of the Covid-19 virus. The replacement of human labour was naturally seen as a positive.

But that is far from the norm. I generally get asked two questions about AI and robotics which are usually based on fear, says KPMG director Kieran Towey. When are robots going to take my job away and when are they going to murder me in my bed?

Towey, who worked as an epidemiologist with the Department of Agriculture during the foot and mouth disease crisis of 2001, remains very positive, nevertheless.

If you think back 150 years ago, most of work was powered by the horse, he says. It was used for everything transport, logistics, farming, pulling barges along canals. The advent of the internal combustion engine changed everything. It put horses and all the ancillary services like blacksmiths out of business and they became very niche.

But what came out of it was something much better. It created the car industry, the petrochemicals industry, and a whole lot of other industries that couldnt have been imagined before then exploded out of it.

EY partner and head of data analytics Eoin OReilly shares this optimism. There is a range of things going on, he says. At one end of the spectrum you have care workers and others in sectors that require human contact and face-to-face engagement. They will see less disruption. On the other hand, there are activities with higher potential to be automated like stock market analysis that will be more affected.

Indeed, certain news agencies are already using AI-powered algorithms to compile reports on minority interest sports based purely on results data.

There will be a range of disruption and it wont hit all industries equally, OReilly adds. There is no doubt that the impact will be severe for some. We shouldnt be too shy about saying that. Some office jobs and others like truck drivers will change drastically or even disappear. On the other side, a whole new set of jobs and industries can be created by the technology.

That more or less positive outlook is also shared by PwC technology partner David Lee. Most industry sectors have undergone some form of automation, he says. But automation, robots and AI can actually create more jobs, many of which will be new roles. Thats because automation can reduce the more mundane and repetitive work elements, leaving opportunities for people to improve their skillsets for a higher-value role. This is particularly important in a crisis, when attention may need to be given to new directions very quickly.

PwC analysis to assess the impact of AI on Irelands economy concluded that the adoption of AI, removing humans from processes and certain decision-making, will mean that some jobs will inevitably become redundant, but others will be created.

This is the case as shifts in productivity and increased consumer demand take place, Lee explains. The impact is mainly driven by product enhancements (7.9 per cent of GDP in 2030) which increase product variety, quality and time saved. The impact from productivity gains is lower than consumption-side enhancements (3.7 per cent of GDP in 2030). The analysis concluded that the effect on jobs in Ireland in the long term would at least be neutral, if not net positive.

Towey points to other research carried out by the Oxford University Future of Humanities Institute and Yale, which was based on a survey of 352 top thinkers in the field. They were asked when they believed high-level machine intelligence (HLMI) will be able to accomplish every task better and more cheaply than human workers.

Overall, the forecast was that there is a 50 per cent chance of this happening in 45 years time and a 100 per cent probability in 150 years time. More strikingly, the research indicated a 10 per cent change of it happening within the next decade.

But this does not necessarily point to a bleak future. A task is not a job, it is part of a job, Towey points out. We know in professional services that a vast amount of our time is taken up by mundane tasks that are all necessary. Wed love to be able to have a Star Trek computer to ask to do the simple things for us. Those things are already here in a nascent form.

He says we will increasingly use AI to perform menial tasks. What we are good at is the creative side. AI is just a tool. Diversity becomes more important in that context. By diversity I mean teams collaborating together to be more creative. Our emotional intelligence and problem-solving and teamworking abilities will come to the fore. We will work more closely with people but will use the AI tools to do so.

OReilly takes the same view. You need to think about it in different ways, he says. AI and robotics can do a lot of the boring things we do today and allow us to be more impactful in our jobs. We will be able to spend more time analysing and acting on data than gathering and preparing it. Whole new industries might be created around training the technology. Apple has people listening to conversations and Facebook has people moderating content and these human interventions are used to train the machines.

Lee says it would be very difficult to remove people completely from many processes. It will be more a future where people and machines will work together, creating more rewarding jobs, he says.

In manufacturing and logistics, for example, automation may make certain aspects safer and quicker than a human could do the job, Lee continues. In the US, ongoing research includes a focus on trying to protect healthcare workers from infection through the development of a biosensor and AI app that will enable coronavirus diagnosis with more limited patient and healthcare worker interaction. Human judgement will always be required and its really about a new way of working trusting machines to do their jobs but people managing the process. When problems occur, most likely a human will be required to fix it. As technology evolves, people will always be more innovative thinking outside of the box and when a crisis happens, it is people that will sort the problem.

Climate change is one of those crises. There is almost so much data on climate change that they dont know how to deal with it, says Towey. Thats due to the technology but its getting better. They are already able to put computer vision on a pesticide sprayer to identify the leaf to apply it to. They are applying intelligence to where it was never really possible before.

He believes the creation of a global network of sensors to provide data on what is going on in the world will be the next great leap forward. And he doesnt believe that to be very far-fetched. If 30 years ago I said you would have the sum of global knowledge in your hand you wouldnt have believed me. Now Google gives you that on your phone. We cant even begin to comprehend what will come about in the next 30 years. Work may become more of a choice than necessity. AI and robotics could deliver things like universal basic income.

But we should use the time available to us to get ready for the change. Failure to prepare is preparing to fail, he says. We can see whats going to happen so we can prepare for it. We cant allow a situation to develop of first they came for the drivers and then they came for the retailers. When we know disruption is coming, we have to set up society to manage the change. We cant just wait for it to happen.

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AI'll be there for you: are robots coming to take our jobs? - The Irish Times

NEW YORK, April 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Robotic Vision market worldwide is projected to grow by US$3.9 Billion, driven by a compounded growth of 10.5%. Hardware, one of the segments analyzed and sized in this study, displays the potential to grow at over 10.8%. The shifting dynamics supporting this growth makes it critical for businesses in this space to keep abreast of the changing pulse of the market. Poised to reach over US$4.9 Billion by the year 2025, Hardware will bring in healthy gains adding significant momentum to global growth.

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- Representing the developed world, the United States will maintain a 12% growth momentum. Within Europe, which continues to remain an important element in the world economy, Germany will add over US$174.3 Million to the region's size and clout in the next 5 to 6 years. Over US$181.5 Million worth of projected demand in the region will come from Rest of Europe markets. In Japan, Hardware will reach a market size of US$368.9 Million by the close of the analysis period. As the world's second largest economy and the new game changer in global markets, China exhibits the potential to grow at 10% over the next couple of years and add approximately US$662.7 Million in terms of addressable opportunity for the picking by aspiring businesses and their astute leaders. Presented in visually rich graphics are these and many more need-to-know quantitative data important in ensuring quality of strategy decisions, be it entry into new markets or allocation of resources within a portfolio. Several macroeconomic factors and internal market forces will shape growth and development of demand patterns in emerging countries in Asia-Pacific. All research viewpoints presented are based on validated engagements from influencers in the market, whose opinions supersede all other research methodologies.

- Competitors identified in this market include, among others,

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I. INTRODUCTION, METHODOLOGY & REPORT SCOPE

II. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. MARKET OVERVIEW

A Prelude to Robotic Vision TechnologyRobotic Vision Market Set for a Rapid GrowthMarket OutlookGlobal Competitor Market SharesRobotic Vision Competitor Market Share Scenario Worldwide(in %): 2019 & 2025

2. FOCUS ON SELECT PLAYERS

3. MARKET TRENDS & DRIVERS

Growing Automotive Production to Drive the Robotic Vision MarketStringent Government Regulations and Rising Need for FoodSafety Propel the Robotic Vision Market in F&B SectorRobotic Vision in Packaging Applications to Bolster Market GrowthRobotics in Aerospace Parts Manufacturing Help Prevent QualityEscapesIntegration of 3D Capabilities in Robotic Vision EnablesSmarter PerformanceAdvancements in Robotics Spur Market Expansion

4. GLOBAL MARKET PERSPECTIVE

Table 1: Robotic Vision Global Market Estimates and Forecastsin US$ Million by Region/Country: 2018-2025Table 2: Robotic Vision Global Retrospective Market Scenario inUS$ Million by Region/Country: 2009-2017Table 3: Robotic Vision Market Share Shift across KeyGeographies Worldwide: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 4: Hardware (Component) World Market by Region/Country inUS$ Million: 2018 to 2025Table 5: Hardware (Component) Historic Market Analysis byRegion/Country in US$ Million: 2009 to 2017Table 6: Hardware (Component) Market Share Breakdown ofWorldwide Sales by Region/Country: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 7: Software (Component) Potential Growth MarketsWorldwide in US$ Million: 2018 to 2025Table 8: Software (Component) Historic Market Perspective byRegion/Country in US$ Million: 2009 to 2017Table 9: Software (Component) Market Sales Breakdown byRegion/Country in Percentage: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 10: 2D (Technology) Geographic Market Spread Worldwide inUS$ Million: 2018 to 2025Table 11: 2D (Technology) Region Wise Breakdown of GlobalHistoric Demand in US$ Million: 2009 to 2017Table 12: 2D (Technology) Market Share Distribution inPercentage by Region/Country: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 13: 3D (Technology) World Market Estimates and Forecastsby Region/Country in US$ Million: 2018 to 2025Table 14: 3D (Technology) Market Historic Review byRegion/Country in US$ Million: 2009 to 2017Table 15: 3D (Technology) Market Share Breakdown byRegion/Country: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 16: Automotive (Industry) Worldwide Latent DemandForecasts in US$ Million by Region/Country: 2018-2025Table 17: Automotive (Industry) Global Historic Analysis in US$Million by Region/Country: 2009-2017Table 18: Automotive (Industry) Distribution of Global Sales byRegion/Country: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 19: Packaging (Industry) Sales Estimates and Forecasts inUS$ Million by Region/Country for the Years 2018 through 2025Table 20: Packaging (Industry) Analysis of Historic Sales inUS$ Million by Region/Country for the Years 2009 to 2017Table 21: Packaging (Industry) Global Market Share Distributionby Region/Country for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 22: Aerospace (Industry) Global Opportunity Assessment inUS$ Million by Region/Country: 2018-2025Table 23: Aerospace (Industry) Historic Sales Analysis in US$Million by Region/Country: 2009-2017Table 24: Aerospace (Industry) Percentage Share Breakdown ofGlobal Sales by Region/Country: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 25: Food Processing (Industry) Worldwide Sales in US$Million by Region/Country: 2018-2025Table 26: Food Processing (Industry) Historic Demand Patternsin US$ Million by Region/Country: 2009-2017Table 27: Food Processing (Industry) Market Share Shift acrossKey Geographies: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 28: Metal Processing (Industry) Global Market Estimates &Forecasts in US$ Million by Region/Country: 2018-2025Table 29: Metal Processing (Industry) Retrospective DemandAnalysis in US$ Million by Region/Country: 2009-2017Table 30: Metal Processing (Industry) Market Share Breakdown byRegion/Country: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025

III. MARKET ANALYSIS

GEOGRAPHIC MARKET ANALYSISUNITED STATESMarket Facts & FiguresUS Robotic Vision Market Share (in %) by Company: 2019 & 2025Market AnalyticsTable 31: United States Robotic Vision Market Estimates andProjections in US$ Million by Component: 2018 to 2025Table 32: Robotic Vision Market in the United States byComponent: A Historic Review in US$ Million for 2009-2017Table 33: United States Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdownby Component: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 34: Robotic Vision Market in US$ Million in the UnitedStates by Technology: 2018-2025Table 35: United States Robotic Vision Market RetrospectiveAnalysis in US$ Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 36: United States Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdownby Technology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 37: United States Robotic Vision Latent Demand Forecastsin US$ Million by Industry: 2018 to 2025Table 38: Robotic Vision Historic Demand Patterns in the UnitedStates by Industry in US$ Million for 2009-2017Table 39: Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown in the UnitedStates by Industry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025CANADATable 40: Canadian Robotic Vision Market Estimates andForecasts in US$ Million by Component: 2018 to 2025Table 41: Canadian Robotic Vision Historic Market Review byComponent in US$ Million: 2009-2017Table 42: Robotic Vision Market in Canada: Percentage ShareBreakdown of Sales by Component for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 43: Robotic Vision Market Analysis in Canada in US$Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 44: Robotic Vision Market in Canada: Historic Review inUS$ Million by Technology for the Period 2009-2017Table 45: Canadian Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown byTechnology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 46: Canadian Robotic Vision Market Quantitative DemandAnalysis in US$ Million by Industry: 2018 to 2025Table 47: Robotic Vision Market in Canada: Summarization ofHistoric Demand Patterns in US$ Million by Industry for2009-2017Table 48: Canadian Robotic Vision Market Share Analysis byIndustry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025JAPANTable 49: Japanese Market for Robotic Vision: Annual SalesEstimates and Projections in US$ Million by Component for thePeriod 2018-2025Table 50: Robotic Vision Market in Japan: Historic SalesAnalysis in US$ Million by Component for the Period 2009-2017Table 51: Japanese Robotic Vision Market Share Analysis byComponent: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 52: Japanese Medium & Long-Term Outlook for RoboticVision Market in US$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 53: Robotic Vision Market in Japan in US$ Million byTechnology: 2009-2017Table 54: Japanese Robotic Vision Market Percentage ShareDistribution by Technology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 55: Japanese Demand Estimates and Forecasts for RoboticVision in US$ Million by Industry: 2018 to 2025Table 56: Japanese Robotic Vision Market in US$ Million byIndustry: 2009-2017Table 57: Robotic Vision Market Share Shift in Japan byIndustry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025CHINATable 58: Chinese Robotic Vision Market Growth Prospects in US$Million by Component for the Period 2018-2025Table 59: Robotic Vision Historic Market Analysis in China inUS$ Million by Component: 2009-2017Table 60: Chinese Robotic Vision Market by Component:Percentage Breakdown of Sales for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 61: Robotic Vision Market Estimates and Forecasts inChina in US$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 62: Chinese Robotic Vision Retrospective Market Scenarioin US$ Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 63: Robotic Vision Market in China: Percentage ShareAnalysis by Technology for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 64: Chinese Demand for Robotic Vision in US$ Million byIndustry: 2018 to 2025Table 65: Robotic Vision Market Review in China in US$ Millionby Industry: 2009-2017Table 66: Chinese Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown byIndustry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025EUROPEMarket Facts & FiguresEuropean Robotic Vision Market: Competitor Market ShareScenario (in %) for 2019 & 2025Market AnalyticsTable 67: European Robotic Vision Market Demand Scenario in US$Million by Region/Country: 2018-2025Table 68: Robotic Vision Market in Europe: A Historic MarketPerspective in US$ Million by Region/Country for the Period2009-2017Table 69: European Robotic Vision Market Share Shift byRegion/Country: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 70: European Robotic Vision Market Estimates andForecasts in US$ Million by Component: 2018-2025Table 71: Robotic Vision Market in Europe in US$ Million byComponent: A Historic Review for the Period 2009-2017Table 72: European Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown byComponent: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 73: European Robotic Vision Market Assessment in US$Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 74: European Robotic Vision Historic Market Review in US$Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 75: Robotic Vision Market in Europe: Percentage Breakdownof Sales by Technology for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 76: European Robotic Vision Addressable MarketOpportunity in US$ Million by Industry: 2018-2025Table 77: Robotic Vision Market in Europe: Summarization ofHistoric Demand in US$ Million by Industry for the Period2009-2017Table 78: European Robotic Vision Market Share Analysis byIndustry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025FRANCETable 79: Robotic Vision Market in France by Component:Estimates and Projections in US$ Million for the Period2018-2025Table 80: French Robotic Vision Historic Market Scenario in US$Million by Component: 2009-2017Table 81: French Robotic Vision Market Share Analysis byComponent: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 82: French Robotic Vision Market Estimates andProjections in US$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 83: French Robotic Vision Historic Market Analysis in US$Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 84: French Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown byTechnology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 85: Robotic Vision Quantitative Demand Analysis in Francein US$ Million by Industry: 2018-2025Table 86: French Robotic Vision Historic Market Review in US$Million by Industry: 2009-2017Table 87: French Robotic Vision Market Share Analysis:A 17-Year Perspective by Industry for 2009, 2019, and 2025GERMANYTable 88: Robotic Vision Market in Germany: Recent Past,Current and Future Analysis in US$ Million by Component for thePeriod 2018-2025Table 89: German Robotic Vision Historic Market Analysis in US$Million by Component: 2009-2017Table 90: German Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown byComponent: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 91: German Robotic Vision Latent Demand Forecasts in US$Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 92: Robotic Vision Market in Germany: A HistoricPerspective by Technology in US$ Million for the Period2009-2017Table 93: German Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown byTechnology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 94: Robotic Vision Market in Germany: Annual SalesEstimates and Forecasts in US$ Million by Industry for thePeriod 2018-2025Table 95: German Robotic Vision Market in Retrospect in US$Million by Industry: 2009-2017Table 96: Robotic Vision Market Share Distribution in Germanyby Industry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025ITALYTable 97: Italian Robotic Vision Market Growth Prospects in US$Million by Component for the Period 2018-2025Table 98: Robotic Vision Historic Market Analysis in Italy inUS$ Million by Component: 2009-2017Table 99: Italian Robotic Vision Market by Component:Percentage Breakdown of Sales for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 100: Robotic Vision Market Estimates and Forecasts inItaly in US$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 101: Italian Robotic Vision Retrospective Market Scenarioin US$ Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 102: Robotic Vision Market in Italy: Percentage ShareAnalysis by Technology for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 103: Italian Demand for Robotic Vision in US$ Million byIndustry: 2018 to 2025Table 104: Robotic Vision Market Review in Italy in US$ Millionby Industry: 2009-2017Table 105: Italian Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdown byIndustry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025UNITED KINGDOMTable 106: United Kingdom Market for Robotic Vision: AnnualSales Estimates and Projections in US$ Million by Component forthe Period 2018-2025Table 107: Robotic Vision Market in the United Kingdom:Historic Sales Analysis in US$ Million by Component for thePeriod 2009-2017Table 108: United Kingdom Robotic Vision Market Share Analysisby Component: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 109: United Kingdom Medium & Long-Term Outlook forRobotic Vision Market in US$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 110: Robotic Vision Market in the United Kingdom in US$Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 111: United Kingdom Robotic Vision Market PercentageShare Distribution by Technology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 112: United Kingdom Demand Estimates and Forecasts forRobotic Vision in US$ Million by Industry: 2018 to 2025Table 113: United Kingdom Robotic Vision Market in US$ Millionby Industry: 2009-2017Table 114: Robotic Vision Market Share Shift in the UnitedKingdom by Industry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025REST OF EUROPETable 115: Rest of Europe Robotic Vision Market Estimates andForecasts in US$ Million by Component: 2018-2025Table 116: Robotic Vision Market in Rest of Europe in US$Million by Component: A Historic Review for the Period2009-2017Table 117: Rest of Europe Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdownby Component: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 118: Rest of Europe Robotic Vision Market Assessment inUS$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 119: Rest of Europe Robotic Vision Historic Market Reviewin US$ Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 120: Robotic Vision Market in Rest of Europe: PercentageBreakdown of Sales by Technology for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 121: Rest of Europe Robotic Vision Addressable MarketOpportunity in US$ Million by Industry: 2018-2025Table 122: Robotic Vision Market in Rest of Europe:Summarization of Historic Demand in US$ Million by Industry forthe Period 2009-2017Table 123: Rest of Europe Robotic Vision Market Share Analysisby Industry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025ASIA-PACIFICTable 124: Robotic Vision Market in Asia-Pacific by Component:Estimates and Projections in US$ Million for the Period2018-2025Table 125: Asia-Pacific Robotic Vision Historic Market Scenarioin US$ Million by Component: 2009-2017Table 126: Asia-Pacific Robotic Vision Market Share Analysis byComponent: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 127: Asia-Pacific Robotic Vision Market Estimates andProjections in US$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 128: Asia-Pacific Robotic Vision Historic Market Analysisin US$ Million by Technology: 2009-2017Table 129: Asia-Pacific Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdownby Technology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 130: Robotic Vision Quantitative Demand Analysis inAsia-Pacific in US$ Million by Industry: 2018-2025Table 131: Asia-Pacific Robotic Vision Historic Market Reviewin US$ Million by Industry: 2009-2017Table 132: Asia-Pacific Robotic Vision Market Share Analysis:A 17-Year Perspective by Industry for 2009, 2019, and 2025REST OF WORLDTable 133: Rest of World Robotic Vision Market Estimates andForecasts in US$ Million by Component: 2018 to 2025Table 134: Rest of World Robotic Vision Historic Market Reviewby Component in US$ Million: 2009-2017Table 135: Robotic Vision Market in Rest of World: PercentageShare Breakdown of Sales by Component for 2009, 2019, and 2025Table 136: Robotic Vision Market Analysis in Rest of World inUS$ Million by Technology: 2018-2025Table 137: Robotic Vision Market in Rest of World: HistoricReview in US$ Million by Technology for the Period 2009-2017Table 138: Rest of World Robotic Vision Market Share Breakdownby Technology: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025Table 139: Rest of World Robotic Vision Market QuantitativeDemand Analysis in US$ Million by Industry: 2018 to 2025Table 140: Robotic Vision Market in Rest of World:Summarization of Historic Demand Patterns in US$ Million byIndustry for 2009-2017Table 141: Rest of World Robotic Vision Market Share Analysisby Industry: 2009 VS 2019 VS 2025

IV. COMPETITION

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Global Robotic Vision Industry | State - Olean Times Herald

SINGAPORE - More than 200 locally made UV disinfecting mobile robots will be rolled out in shopping malls and the healthcare and transport sectors by the end of the year to help fight against Covid-19.

These autonomous UV mobile robots, known as Sunburst UV Bots, are made by local robotics technology firm PBA Group and are built with a lamp module emitting powerful ultraviolet-C (UV-C) light.

The robots will first be deployed in Northpoint City in May and eventually to moremalls owned by Frasers Property Retail, PBA Group and Frasers said in a joint statement on Thursday (April 23). Frasers will be the first mall operator to utilise the robots in their malls and has a portfolio of 14 malls in Singapore.

The UV-C rays emitted by the lamp module help decontaminate the environment by tearing apart strands of virus DNA. The robots move around autonomously and are guided by light detection and ranging sensors.

As UV-C light kills around 99 per cent of bacteria and has been clinically proven to eliminate viruses, the robots will disinfect surfaces more effectively compared to manual cleaning and the spraying disinfectant solutions, reduce the need for cleaners and also help protect frontline cleaning staff.

"As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to unfold, it is critical for us to ensure the ongoing health and safety of our staff, tenants and shoppers...This forms part of our overall strategy to tap on technology and automation to increase our operational efficiency," Mr Low Chee Wah, chief executive officer of Frasers Property Retail said in the statement on Thursday.

In malls, the robots will only be used after closing hours. Depending on the size of the mall, the number of robots deployed will vary and is likely to range between 10 and 20 .

"This is just the start. We are already making more robots to introduce to the line-up. PBA will have a family of robots for commercial spaces, on top of hospitals, transport, supermarkets, shopping malls. Eventually, we will be getting the robot into homes," the group's chief executive Derrick Yap told The Straits Times on Thursday.

"Soon we will also roll out these robots in Malaysia, Thailand as well as Hong Kong - we already have large conglomerates placing orders and discussing with our team about the delivery schedules. We estimate over 500 robots in the mentioned region," Mr Yap added.

As UV-C light poses a danger in close proximity, the public will need to keep a 5m distance from the robot. The staff will also either close the door or set up a temporary opaque partition to separate and distance themselves from the robot.

The Sunburst UV Bot is also able detect when people are too near and shut off its lamp.

When power is low, the robot is also able to self-navigate to its charging station. It can operate for around 2.5 hours on a single charge.

Apart from these robots, PBA will also roll out a mask donation initiative, the group said in a separate statement on Thursday.

PBA has donated more than US$50,000 (S$71,000) worth of masks and has called on other contributors to join them in this initiative. The beneficiaries include front-line staff in essential services.

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Dow High School The Charge Robotics Team Adopt-a-Street. (Photo provided)

Dow High School The Charge Robotics Team Adopt-a-Street. (Photo provided)

Dow High School The Charge Robotics Team Adopt-a-Street. (Photo provided)

Dow High School The Charge Robotics Team Adopt-a-Street. (Photo provided)

Community Connections:Midland Public Schools reflects on a memorable school year

With our world, nation, state and community consumed by COVID-19 these days, Midland Public Schools would like to take a step back to celebrate and honor our students, staff and district's incredible accomplishments during the 2019-20 school year.

Our in-building school year may have had to end a few months early, however, the honors and accolades we celebrate in this month's Community Connections speak volumes about the quality, dedication, hard work and support of our students, staff and families. While the following successes are lengthy, please know there are so many more!

MPS named one of the Best 20 School Districts in the State by Niche in 2019 (out of 556 districts), putting MPS in the top 4% of public school districts in the State of Michigan.

25% of the 2020 Michigan winners in the annual Aspirations Award from the National Center for Women in Information Technology were from MPS High Schools (8 MPS students were Aspirations in Computing winners; 2 received Rising Star Awards; 6 received Honorable Mention).

58 MPS 2019 graduates and current seniors earned the Michigan Seal of Biliteracy for demonstrating proficiency in English and at least one other world language before they graduated.

44 Midland High Business Professionals of America members earned the right to compete at this year's state leadership conference.

79 HH Dow High DECA members qualified to compete against their peers from around Michigan DECA State Career Development Conference. They brought home 66 medals and 21 students qualified to compete at the international conference. Senior Kamika Chandra, was the recipient of the 2020 DECA Emerging Leader Honor Award.

Dow High's Debate Team earned the distinction of Varsity State Champions.

Midland High placed No. 1 at the Michigan State University High School Programming Competition.

This year, as they do year after year, MPS teams, student athletes and coaches earned many SVL and Michigan High School Coaches Association awards and accolades

Midland High Seniors Corbin Dittenber, Timmy Kipfmiller, Erika Leasher and Andrew Scheffer won the 2019 Congressional App Challenge for the 4th District for their "Meal Deals" app.

HH Dow High's Science Olympiad team competed at Delta College and took home six first place medals, two for second place and four for third place.

Jefferson and Northeast Middle Schools dominated the Regional Science Olympiad Competition at Delta College earning medals in 18 of the 22 events. Jefferson placed first and Northeast placed a very close second. Both teams qualified for the Science Olympiad State Meet.

Jefferson Middle School's regional qualifying team competed at SVSU against 11 other area schools in the State of Michigan Challenger for You Be The Chemist Program sponsored by Dow Chemical. The Jefferson Husky team took 2nd place and advanced to the National Level!

The Dow High Math Club earned first place at the Math Field Day Competition at U of M Flint.

800 MPS student musicians participated in the MSBOA Band and Orchestra Festival. Every MPS band and orchestra that attended earned a 1st division rating overall with most ensembles earning 1st division ratings from every judge.

Midland High Junior Izaac Goergen competed against 59 Division 1 bowlers to become Midland High's first Boys' Bowling State Champion!

Nine MHS Welding students competed at Skills USA's Regional Welding Competition. Aaron Clark won first and qualified for States. In addition, six welding students traveled to the Industrial Arts Institute in Onaway for their annual welding competition. Abby Markel was officially the first girl to ever place at that competition, earning second place in Gas Metal Arc Welding from among the 85 who participated.

The Adams Elementary Book Warrior team won this year's annual Battle of the Books sponsored by the Grace A. Dow Memorial Library.

Elementary FIRST Robotics: 26 FIRST Lego League Jr. teams (grade 1-3); nine FIRST Lego League teams (Grade 4-5). All six MPS elementary schools had FIRST robotics teams. Three FIRST Lego League Teams earned the right to compete at the MI State Championship: Siebert Bulldog Builders, Woodcrest Cyclone Wolverines, Adams City Warriors.

Middle School FIRST Robotics: All five MPS FIRST Tech Challenge Robotics teams (grade 6-8) qualified to compete at the MI State Championship!

High School FIRST Robotics: Two award-winning Robotics teams: Dow High's Team is 2209 'The Charge' and Midland High's Team is 5509 'Like a Boss' -- this competitive season may have been cut short for our high school teams, but both teams planned, built, troubleshooted, programmed and competed as knowledgeable, organized, collaborative, supportive teams. The MHS 'Like A Boss' team competed at Kettering University and won the Spirit Award; DHS 'The Charge' competed at the St. Joseph FIRST Robotics Competition and won the Gracious Professionalism Award.

FIRST Robotics Dean's List Award Semi Finalists were named: Midland High's Moira Blanchard and Ben Miller; HH Dow High's Caleb Allington and David Watkins

A major focus for MPS is Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI). Here are just a few ways MPS focused on DEI:

Midland Public Schools hosted exciting unified football and basketball games in 2019-20. In these Unified Interscholastic Games, special education and general education players took the field/court before the Varsity Games to compete with the same rules as the high school football/basketball games. Hundreds of students and adults cheered on the Unified Teams giving everyone on the field and in attendance wonderful memories.

Midland High held a One Billion Rising event that discussed how we can be "upstanders" rather than bystanders regarding gender violence.

Chestnut Hill held a Multi-Cultural Night that presented information to over 165 students on 15 different countries/cultures.

First Graders at Central Park took part in an International Day experience that led them on a journey to Israel, Spain, Nepal, Botswana and China. Students learned about cultural customs and traditions.

Another major focus for MPS is kindness through our #keepitkindMPS initiative. MPS students "keep it kind" in many ways. One way is through their volunteerism and giving back to our community. Here are just a few amazing examples:

Midland High's SAVE Club students promote kindness District-wide by reading to over 35 MPS Kindergarten through Grade 2 elementary school classrooms.

HH Dow High's Girls' Varsity Basketball team volunteered at Woodcrest Elementary on the day of all of their home games this season reading books, playing with students during recess, helping with math & more.

Students at Siebert volunteered at the Open Door.

Students at Woodcrest Elementary made blankets and donated them to Mid-Michigan Medical Center.

Midland High Music Department students gave a community member a helping hand by doing some fall yardwork

Many schools organized ingatherings such as socks, toys, stuffed animals, food, personal care items, etc. for area non-profit groups.

Siebert Elementary fourth and fifth graders created kindness coins in their art class to give away across the community. Their goal: to spread smiles far and wide and to share kindness to make the world a better place.

Jefferson Student Leadership organized after-school blanket making parties where Huskies came together to make fleece tie-blankets that they donated to Shelter House.

HH Dow High's Robotics Team sponsors an "Adopt-a-Street" section of Patrick Road helping to keep Midland beautiful.

MPS educators continue to be asked to present at state and national conferences as well as receive awards and accolades in their own right:

Diane White, DHS computer science teacher, and Robert Fox, MHS computer science teacher, were awarded the Inspiring Teacher Award by the Women in Engineering Society and Michigan State University.

Lynn Verdusco, Woodcrest Elementary teacher, and Andrea Jozwiak, Midland High business teacher/interim assistant principal, have been chosen to receive a Heroes in Education Award by SVSU.

Jen Lenon, MPS Middle School learning coach, was chosen as a Regional STEM Star by SVSU.

Jillian Seamster, Central Park third grade teacher, and Amanda Brown, Northeast sixth grade social studies and reading teacher, were chosen as Outstanding Teachers of the Year by the Saginaw Spirit.

Lynn Heil, Spanish teacher at Jefferson Middle School, was selected to speak at the World Language National Conference in Washington, D.C. with attendees from all over the world.

MPS world language teachers Patti Borus, Amy Rankin and Brian Smith were invited to present at the Michigan World Language Association annual conference in Lansing.

As you can see by the many accolades listed here, MPS students, staff and coaches represented Midland Public Schools and the Midland community in so many varied and competitive ways throughout the state of Michigan and beyond during the 2019-20 school year. Kudos MPS students, staff, coaches and parents for your hard work, preparation, professionalism and support in the many arenas in which you represented your district and community so admirably!

After reading all these truly noteworthy accomplishments by the MPS students and staff during this school year cut short by the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope you are as proud of your community's students and educators as Midland Public Schools is. Given this long, diverse list of accomplishments (which does not begin to capture everything), it can be no surprise that Midland Public School's is among the top 4% of the districts in the State of Michigan.

Thank you Midland Community for all of your support through the years. We know it truly does take a village to raise a child! Midland Public Schools is so fortunate to be located in this "Village."

Michael E. Sharrow is the Superintendent of Midland Public Schools. He authored this piece as part of the Daily News' Community Connections initiative.

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Opinion: fromhospitals to shops and policing, the use of drones and robots to carry out critical services can save lives during an epidemic

By Boris Galkin, TCD

As the world is rocked by the coronavirus crisis, governments everywhere have come together with the same safety instructions: stay home and avoid close contact with other people. For many, this lifestyle change simply entails taking their workload home and balancing it with their domestic chores: bookkeeping while babysitting, coding while cooking.

But leaving the house is still a necessity for purchasing food and essentials, which carries a risk of infection. Even worse off are those people whose jobs cannot be taken home and who must be in contact with potentially sick individuals.

The good news is that possible solutions for many of these issues are just around the corner, as the crisis has given a boost to a number of emerging technologies. The last 10 years have seen a technological revolution occur in the robotics and autonomous vehicle sectors. Largely invisible to the layperson, this crisis has pushed the technology out of its niche into the public sphere like never before.

From CGTN, a Chinese hospital is using robots to deliver medicine

So how are robots and drones playing a key role in containing the spread of the Covid-19 virus - and what changes we can expect to see in Ireland in the near future?Among those most at risk of contracting the virus are healthcare personnel such as doctors and nurses, who spend prolonged periods of time in areas with potentially infectious patients. Recognising this, several hospitals in China have begun adopting autonomous robots for many of their day-to-day tasks, such as delivering foodand medicineto patients, as well as disinfecting the hospital environment.

In Singapore, doctors are using telemedicine robots to remotely interact with patients from a safe distance whenever possible. These robots take the form of electric carts carrying cameras, video monitors and health measurement equipment. The medical personnel using these devices have the opportunity to increase the frequency of their patient interactions without having to resort to wearing PPE such as gloves and masks, which are in short supply.

Another key service which is seeing a robotic transformation is the delivery sector. With individuals staying home, the demand for online shopping and home delivery has skyrocketed. This puts delivery staff in a difficult situation, as any contact with the end-client puts both parties at risk.

From New China TV, autonomous delivery robots delivering goods in Wuhan

While leaving packages on doorsteps is an option, Chinese company JD.com has a better idea. Already a big player in autonomous delivery systems, this company has used the quarantine conditions to push their autonomous ground vehicles from the lab to the street. Taking the form of miniature electric vans, JD.com's delivery robots are safely driving along Wuhans roads and carrying out the last-mile stage of package delivery (that is, the stage where a package is sent from the local storage hub to the clients address). Capable of piloting themselves around complicated road conditions day or night, these robots are reported to be making the majority of the companys medical deliveries at the time of writing.

Law enforcement has not been left behind by this technological trend. With the lockdown come new laws which need to be enforced, and police organisations around the world are turning to remotely-piloted tools. These devices most often take the form of commercially available drones carrying loudspeakers or other communication equipment. Using them, police officers are able to remotely patrol city streets and public areas, identify the locations of non-compliant individuals and directly engage them. Not only do these devices allow the police to maintain their physical distance when carrying out their patrols, but their speed allows the police to oversee much larger areas than what they could achieve from the ground.

From ABC News, Madrid police are using drones tobroadcast messages during the coronavirus outbreak

While China has emerged as the leader in adopting these robotic tools, other countries are following closely. Ireland is currently lagging behind with this technology, due to a combination of economic and legislative issues. Current legislation prevents many of the applications of autonomous vehicles described above, particularly those used outdoors in public areas.

By law, autonomous or remotely piloted delivery vans are not permitted on Irish roads, and drones are heavily restricted in how they can use Irish airspace, even in the hands of the emergency services. Fortunately, the legislation on autonomous vehicles and drones is gradually changing to allow for more expanded use cases, such as food delivery in selected parts of the country.

The automation revolution was visible on the horizon for a while, but thiscrisis has suddenly brought it into full view

It is unlikely that we will see the technologies described above become adopted in Ireland during this current crisis, but the existing global trends unanimously point towards a near future where this technology is a daily part of our lives. Economists, scientists and tech experts worldwide are predicting that the virus will create an even greater demand for automating parts of the economy from the factory to the office.

When the virus outbreak comes to an end, the world will return to a new normal, with robots and autonomous devices appearing in various workplaces in increasing numbers. Working from home will become available to more people, while others will find aspects of their jobs taken over by machines, whether remotely piloted by the workers themselves or controlled by artificial intelligence. New business opportunities will emerge to cater to these automation demands, with new jobs created in the process. The automation revolution was visible on the horizon for a while, but thiscrisis has suddenly brought it into full view, and showed just how important the technology is for saving lives.

Boris Galkinis a PhD researcher atCONNECTinTrinity College Dublin

The views expressed here are those of the author and do not represent or reflect the views of RT

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Five girls in Afghanistan, aged between 14 and 17, have joined the fight against the coronavirus, designing a cheap ventilator that runs off the motor of a Toyota Corolla.

The all-female robotics team, aptly named the Afghan Dreamers, has long been more accomplished than average teenagers.

Tech entrepreneur Roya Mahboob founded the trail-blazing programme in the Afghani city of Herat, selecting young girls from high schools across the country, usually aged 14 or 15, for the programme.

It was a passion project for Ms Mahboob, a serial entrepreneur who became one of Afghanistans first female chief executives at 23, established a non-profit organisation to help young women to build digital literacy, and has since been named one of Time Magazines 100 most influential people.

Participants are selected for the Dreamers based on their entrance exam for the 9th and 10th grades, and the very best of them then get to join the national team the Afghan Girls Robotics Team for international competitions. There are about 50 participants in the Dreamers, and they stay in the programme for about two years.

In 2017, the national team made international headlines when their US visas were rejected not long before they were due to travel to an international robotics competition in Washington, DC. After individual appeals to the US Embassy in Kabul failed, the group took to social media to air their grievances. The teams' plight received international attention, and led to US President Donald Trump intervening on their behalf.

The Afghan Girls Robotics Team returned from that competition with a silver medal for courageous achievement won by their ball-sorting robot, designed to distinguish between contaminated and clean water.

Upon their return home, the girls were not only heroes, but inspiration for women seeking higher education in Afghanistan, where about 40 per cent of women are literate.

In the years since, that robotics team has graduated, and another has come to the fore. But Ms Mahboob has remained, spearheading a movement to tackle inequality with education.

"The only thing that we all want to do is help our people and our community. We will do anything to help them," she tells The National.

"I work with the girls, but mostly to co-ordinate. They are the real heroes."

Ms Mahboob now splits her time between New York and Kabul. She is currently in Afghanistan, initially to oversee the Brite conference (Building Resilience through Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship) another brainchild of hers which is due to take place in Kabul this June.

Other teams in the Afghan Dreamers have been working on big projects too, after all. One team was developing a device to help farmers with saffron picking. Another was building drones and robots to work in the mining sector.

But with cities under increasing lockdown in the country and the conference postponed, Ms Mahboob has turned her attention to ventilators.

"We don't know what's going to happen here in two or there weeks so we want to be prepared," she says.

Cases of Covid-19 are accelerating in Afghanistan. The first was reported in Herat, the country's third most populous city, on February 24. That number has since increased to 337, with seven deaths. But authorities fear it could get much worse and with a compromised health system and an insufficient number of ventilators, the authorities face a race against the clock.

Which is why, when the governor of Herat put out a public plea for more ventilators, five young women answered the call.

This team consists of five Dreamers aged between 14 and 17; captain Somaya Faruqi, Dyana Wahbzadeh, Folernace Poya, Ellaham Mansori and Nahid Rahimi. Ms Mahboob has been working with them for about a year.

They are currently working with two prototypes. One is a gear-based system based on a design from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in the US. The other uses parts from a Toyota Corolla.

The key to this MIT ventilator alternative was devising a mechanical system to operate the hand-operated plastic pouch, or Ambu bag, which hospitals have on hand in large quantities. An Ambu bag is designed to be operated by hand, by squeezing the bag, which pumps air into a patient's lungs. The mechanic version would cost about $200 to make. A company from Texas has now offered to help provide advice for the design and to connect them with others who can help them bring the concept to fruition.

For the other ventilator, the Toyota Corolla motor was used as it runs off a battery and is easily sourced in the country. And it costs just $300 to make.

Both needed to be made with local materials, Ms Mahboob says. That proved a challenge for the girls, as did working with a gear-based device, rather than their usual technological or robotic designs.

"The idea of these machines is that we use them for emergency cases, when there are no professional ventilators. The thing in Afghanistan is, we don't have enough ventilators, but that's the case for many other countries, even Italy or New York.

"If we don't have access to anything professional we can use these ones."

As cities across the country shut down, working on the designs became increasingly challenging, Ms Mahboob says. The girls' parents were concerned about them being out of the house as the pandemic raged on, but they were usually able to work together for a couple of hours a day.

"It's very difficult for the girls to come together in one place. The shops are closed, so we have to call so many people to open the shop someone who knows someone, who can open the store to get that part."

The team was still fine-tuning both designs, and working with doctors to test them.

However, since a new governor of Herat took over a few days ago, Ms Mahboob doesn't know what the immediate future of her designs is. She hopes the new governor will look favourably on their work.

"We want to make sure that the government and the community are excited about technology," she says.

"There are other focuses for government money to be spent, but in order to compete and prosper in the 21st century, all countries must be able to access the highest technology that's transforming our world.

"If these girls have access to the opportunity or the tools, their lives can be changed. But not only their lives, they can change their community, too."

Updated: April 9, 2020 09:00 PM

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Disinfectant and other use cases will also propel the small drone delivery market in the US to reach $414 million by 2021, and $10.4 billion by 2030, according to ABI Research.

The ability of mobile robotics to successfully disinfect, monitor, surveil, and handle and deliver materials will propel the market to $23 billion by 2021, according to ABI Research. "Crises shift perceptions on what is possible regarding investment and transformative action on the part of both private and government actors," said Rian Whitton, a senior analyst, in a statement. "By the time the COVID-19 pandemic has passed, robots will be mainstreamed across a range of applications and markets."

The coronavirus outbreak has been a good opportunity for companies to display robots for public applications, ABI Research said. One of the more popular examples has been the deployment of mobile unmanned platforms with ultraviolet (UV) light to disinfect facilities, the firm said. Danish company UVD Robots is reaping the benefits of this opportunity and is scaling up deployments of robots to disinfect hospitals, ABI Research said.

SEE: The finance robots are coming: 73% of organizations plan to replace humans with machines this year (TechRepublic)

Additionally, US-based Germ Falcon is offering a similar UV disinfection solution for aircraft, while Chinese TMiRob is deploying disinfection robots in Wuhan, according to the firm. "Automating disinfection is a key part of maintaining health and safety and could be one of the major bright spots in the response to COVID-19," Whitton said.

Drones have also been deployed to enforce curfews and surveil areas for security purposes, according to ABI Research. This represents a big opportunity for aerospace and drone companies to increase sales to government agencies, the firm said. ABI Research expects the small drone delivery market in the US to reach $414 million by 2021, and $10.4 billion by 2030.

In the short term, to enforce quarantine mandates, governments will need to increase their security apparatuses, as well as the productivity of their medical agencies, according to ABI Research. Robots will be key to achieving that through disinfection, monitoring, and surveillance, the firm said.

Furthermore, the shutting down of households and even ships represents a chance for robot delivery companies for both land and air to display their worth, the firm noted. The drone delivery market could take its experience with transporting supplies in the developing world and scale up operations in the most affected countries.

In the long-term, COVID-19 is leading to a significant reassessment of the global manufacturing supply chain, the firm believes. America's dependence on Chinese imports for basic equipment and medicines is becoming a contentious issue, and government representatives are already interpreting the crisis as a chance to revitalize the campaign to re-shore more manufacturing capacity to the domestic market, ABI Research said.

"If this translates into more significant measures by governments to diversify or re-shore the manufacturing of key goods, this could bode very well for the robotics industry, as such changes would require big increases in CAPEX and productivity improvements within developed countries," the firm stated.

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"Industrial players [should] develop customized solutions for non-manufacturing use cases or look to build comprehensive solutions for enabling a scale-up in medical supply manufacturing," Whitton recommended. "For mobile robotics vendors and software companies targeting more nascent markets, this represents a big chance to highlight the importance of robotics for dealing with national emergencies, as well as mitigating the economic shock."

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SOMERVILLE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--RISE Robotics, a leader in high-performance and cost effective electric linear actuation solutions, today announced it has raised $3 million in additional funding. The funding round was led by The Engine, the venture firm spun out of MIT that invests in early-stage Tough Tech companies that are solving the worlds most urgent problems, such as climate change, through the convergence of breakthrough science, engineering, and leadership.

RISE Robotics technology disrupts how linear actuators are engineered and makes the shift from diesel to electric systems possible, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible. Linear actuators create the push-and-pull movements in the mechanisms of heavy machinery which are essential for lifting and loading materials across many industries, including: construction, agriculture, and waste management. Without linear actuators excavators couldnt dig, garbage trucks couldnt crush, and forklifts couldnt lift.

The majority of heavy machines today rely on hydraulic systems, powered by diesel, to enable motion. It is the most essential, but also the most wasteful component in the overall motion system, producing an estimated 55 million tons of CO2 annually in the U.S. alone according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. As OEMs are forced to adapt their products to comply with imminent emissions regulations, the industry has struggled with the slow pace of innovation and high cost of using electricity as a power source for heavy machinery.

Hybrid and electric retrofits to existing hydraulic systems are more expensive than the existing diesel systems and are much harder to control. Hydraulics are slowing and literally weighing down the adoption of electrically powered heavy machines, said Arron Acosta, CEO and Co-founder of RISE Robotics. The RISE platform offers a completely new mechanical motion technology that makes electric-powered motor-to-movement solutions possible. Its a game changer for any manufacturer trying to electrify its heavy machinery.

The additional funding will support RISE Robotics work with a leading forklift manufacturer to accelerate the electrification of its machinery, increasing the performance of the manufacturers existing electric forklifts and enabling the electrification of its larger scale machinery, which is currently diesel-fueled.

Reed Sturtevant, a General Partner of The Engine, and angel investor Walter A. Winshall will join RISE Robotics Board of Directors.

It takes a lot to make a machine move. Displacing hydraulics is just the first application of RISE Robotics IP for improving motion and electrifying heavy machinery. Their research, approach and systems will be crucial in evolving how other key mechanical components work, but most importantly these innovations to the fundamentals of how machinery moves will lead the industry toward not just compliance with emissions standards but helping heavy machinery become an oil-free, zero emissions industry in the future, said Sturtevant.

RISE Robotics' co-founders Arron Acosta and Blake Sessions met while at MIT and formed the company with Toomas Sepp and Kyle DellAquila. The company was part of the Techstars accelerator and has received angel funding from notable Boston investors and advisors including John P. Strauss, William J. Warner, and Walter A. Winshall. RISE Robotics has two commercial agreements, one with a major manufacturer of lifting machinery, and another with the U.S. Air Force.

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RISE Robotics is the leader in high-performance and cost effective electric linear actuation solutions. RISE helps designers embrace high-efficiency, fuel saving actuation solutions that compete with hydraulic cylinders. Designed for medium and heavy duty applications, the RISE Cylinder provides fuel and emissions reductions, improves productivity and extends machine life. Find RISE online: https://www.riserobotics.com/

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The recycling industry was already struggling before the pandemic. Now, an increasing number of cities are suspending recycling services, partly out of fear that workers might contract the coronavirus from one another while sorting through used water bottles, food containers and boxes.

One solution: Let robots do the job.

Since the coronavirus took hold in the United States last month, AMP Robotics has seen a significant increase in orders for its robots that use artificial intelligence to sift through recycled material, weeding out trash.

Some facilities that were looking at getting one or two robots are now saying, We need quite a bit more, said the Colorado companys chief executive, Matanya Horowitz. Its all moving quite fast.

Before the pandemic, automation had been gradually replacing human work in a range of jobs, from call centers to warehouses and grocery stores, as companies looked to cut labor costs and improve profit.

But labor and robotics experts say social-distancing directives, which are likely to continue in some form after the crisis subsides, could prompt more industries to accelerate their use of automation. And long-simmering worries about job losses or a broad unease about having machines control vital aspects of daily life could dissipate as society sees the benefits of restructuring workplaces in ways that minimize close human contact.

Pre-pandemic, people might have thought we were automating too much, said Richard Pak, a professor at Clemson University who researches the psychological factors around automation. This event is going to push people to think what more should be automated.

The grocery industry is leaning more on automation to free up employees to deal with the crush of demand during the pandemic.

Brain Corp, a San Diego company that makes software used in automated floor cleaners, said retailers were using the cleaners 13 percent more than they were just two months ago. The autonomous floor care robots are doing about 8,000 hours of daily work that otherwise would have been done by an essential worker, the company said.

At supermarkets like Giant Eagle, robots are freeing up employees who previously spent time taking inventory to focus on disinfecting and sanitizing surfaces and processing deliveries to keep shelves stocked.

Retailers insist the robots are augmenting the work of employees, not replacing them. But as the panic buying ebbs and sales decline in the recession that is expected to follow, companies that reassigned workers during the crisis may no longer have a need for them.

The role of a cashier is also changing. For many years, retailers have provided self-checkout kiosks. But those machines often require intervention by workers to help shoppers navigate the often fickle and frustrating technology.

The pandemic is prompting some stores to adopt even more aggressive contactless options. From farm stands to butchers, merchants are asking customers whenever possible to use mobile payment services like PayPal or Venmo. Banking regulators in Europe last week increased the amount of money that shoppers can pay through their mobile devices, while reducing some authentication requirements.

While fully automated stores, such as Amazon Go, might have seemed like a technological curiosity a few months ago, they are likely to become a more viable option for retailers.

No one would probably have thought of a cashiers job as being dangerous until now, Mr. Pak said.

Mark Muro, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who studies labor markets, said that with companies hurting for cash, the pressure to replace humans with machines becomes even more intense.

People become more expensive as companies revenues decline, he said.

A new wave of automation could also mean that when companies start hiring again, they do so in smaller numbers.

This may be one of those situations when automation does substantially depress rehiring, Mr. Muro said. You may see fewer workers when the recovery does come.

Even some conversations are being automated away. With closed offices keeping many of its workers away, PayPal has turned to chatbots, using them for a record 65 percent of message-based customer inquiries in recent weeks.

PayPal is also using automated translation services so its English-speaking representatives can help customers who dont speak English.

The resources we are able to deploy through A.I. are allowing us to be more flexible with our staff and prioritize their safety and well-being, PayPal said in a statement.

YouTube said in a blog post that with fewer people in its offices around the world, machines are doing more content moderation.

We will temporarily start relying more on technology to help with some of the work normally done by reviewers, the company said. This means automated systems will start removing some content without human review.

Recycling is one industry that may be altered permanently by the pandemic. Some workers, who earn as little as $10 an hour, have been concerned about coming to work during the crisis and some cities have been scrambling to find enough protective gear for all of their employees. Federal health officials have assured them that the risks of transmission from household refuse is low. But workers in recycling facilities often work side by side sorting material, making social distancing difficult.

At AMP Robotics, executives like Mr. Horowitz say their robots will enable recycling facilities to space out their employees, who stand at conveyor belts weeding through the used plastic and paper.

Another benefit of the bots: They cant get the virus, Mr. Horowitz said.

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Global Intelligent Soft Robotics Market to Reach $2.16 Billion by 2024

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Why should an investor consider venturing into the intelligent soft robotics market, and what are the future growth opportunities? For a new company looking to enter into the market, which areas could it focus upon to stay ahead of the competition? How do the existing market players function to improve their market positioning? How does the supply chain function in the intelligent soft robotics market? Which companies have been actively involved in innovation through patent applications, and which products have witnessed maximum patent applications during the period 2016-2019? Which product and technology segments are expected to witness the maximum demand growth in the intelligent soft robotics market during 2019-2024, and how is their growth pattern across different regions and countries? Which are the key application areas in the intelligent soft robotics market? Which regions and countries are leading in terms of having robotic setups, and which of them are expected to witness high demand growth during 2019-2024?

Global Intelligent Soft Robotics Market Forecast, 2019-2024

The global intelligent soft robotics market analyzed is expected to showcase healthy growth.The intelligent soft robotics market is anticipated to grow at a robust CAGR of 37% on the basis of capacity during the forecast period from 2019 to 2024.

The demand for intelligent soft robotic solutions has massively grown in the past years.High environmental concerns have resulted in the transformation of various industries and led to innovation of multiple technologies that enable the usage of renewable sources of energy.

Intelligent soft robotics addresses the ongoing issue of handling delicate objects that able to present an extensive amount of opportunities to revolutionize the working principle of different end-user industry such as food & beverage, logistics, space, defense and healthcare.

The intelligent soft robotics market is currently in its upscaling phase.The concept of soft robotics has been gaining traction owing to the rising need for automation.

However, even though the technology is theoretically much researched and studied, the practical operation is still upscaling and has not reached the stage of full-fledged commercialization.Most of the intelligent soft robotics are being operated on a pilot basis with the help of government funding and subsidies.

Currently, the establishment of intelligent soft robotic manufacturing is expensive, but with the materialization of learning curves, the high capital cost is anticipated to decline.

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"Rising demand for logistics in the e-commerce industry for the order fulfilment is one of the primary drivers for the adoption of robotics. E-commerce players such as Amazon Inc. (U.S.), and Walmart (U.S.) have substantial opportunities to adopt intelligent soft robotics in their warehouses. Moreover, the adoption of robots in the food industry has been significantly growing over the years in every step of food processing for enhanced operational efficiency. Other industries such as defense and healthcare are among the early adopters of intelligent soft robots boosting the growth of the intelligent soft robotics market."

Scope of the Intelligent Soft Robotics Market

The Intelligent Soft Robotics Market provides detailed market information for segmentation such as type, end user, component, mobility, and region. The purpose of this market analysis is to examine intelligent soft robotics in terms of factors driving the market, trends, technological developments, and competitive benchmarking, among others.

The report further takes into consideration the market dynamics and the competitive landscape, along with the detailed financial and product contribution of the key players operating in the market. While highlighting the key driving and restraining forces for this market, the report also provides a detailed study of the industry that has been analyzed.

The intelligent soft robotics market is segregated by region under four major segments, namely North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Rest-of-the-World.

Key Companies in the Intelligent Soft Robotics Market

The key market players in the Intelligent Soft Robotics Market include Cyberdyne Inc. (Japan), Ekso Bionics Holdings Inc. (U.S.), Empire Robotics, Inc. (U.S.), F&P Personal Robotics (Switzerland), FANUC Corporation (Japan), Franka Emika GmbH (Germany), GLI Technology Limited (China) and Soft Robotics, Inc. (U.S.), among others.

Countries Covered North America U.S. Canada Europe Germany U.K. Switzerland Italy Sweden Rest-of-Europe Asia-Pacific China Japan South Korea India Rest-of-Asia-Pacific Rest-of-the-World Middle East and Africa Latin America

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Human beings have long worried about new machinery, computers, and robots displacing human workers and causing economic hardship, with recent one recent poll finding that 76% of Americans believe that inequality between the rich and the poor would increase if robots and computers perform most of the jobs currently being done by humans. The skyrocketing unemployment figures related to the current coronaviruspandemic arent doing much these days to reassure people about their long-term employment future, either. But the risks being highlighted by Covid-19 should actually lead us to appreciate the great potential automated workplace technology has for making our lives better, safer, and healthier.

In todays New York Times, Michael Corkery and David Gelles report on trends in automation that will end up shielding human workers from jobs and job tasks that could increase their health risks. AMP Robotics, for example, is producing trash-sorting robots that can separate recyclable material like used food containers, freeing up human workers for duties that are less likely to carry a risk of infection. Many other industries are moving ahead with automated machines and software that will reduce safety risks from work that has to be done high above the ground, in tightly enclosed spaces, or surrounded by unsafe air.

Replacing one or more workers with a new automated system also doesnt mean that those workers are going to remain (or even become) unemployed. Theres a constant churn of jobs in a large economy, and a large company that saves money on labor costs in one area may well re-deploy employees to other tasks. Any job is really a bundle of job duties, and some of those duties are more valuable, and more amenable to automation, than others. Robot tech is overwhelmingly taking over the duties that are the most repetitive, dangerous, and dirty, leaving him workers with job options that are more creative, safe, and clean.

Former NPR Planet Money host Adam Davidson writes in his recent book The Passion Economy about automation of something that we usually dont think of as a robot-ready taskbeing a good manager. He studied how the salad chain Sweetgreen trained and recruited their workforce, and found out that they were using a sophisticated software program to help nudge and guide their store managers. By dispensing encouragement and extending training and advancement opportunities more strategically, the company is able to keep their frontline employees happier, better identify prospects for advancement, and make each location more profitable. Their software didnt replace managers, but it provided a valuable tool for leveraging their existing abilities, like giving a warehouse worker a pneumatic lifting suit.

Positive stories about win-win results from the march of automation are everywhere in our economy, but they dont get publicized and repeated often enough. The workers who are told they should be the most worried about their jobs being stolen by robots are, in fact, the ones who will likely benefit the most from future jobs that will be safer and more pleasant. We just need our political leaders not to stop this progress with bad policies.

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Robots Are Here to Make Your Job Safer and Cleaner - Competitive Enterprise Institute

Kevin Patel and Nihar Chaniyara grew up among rural India's herbicide-treated crops of corn, sugarcane and mangos. Today they cultivate organics with data, vision models and GPUs.

Twenty-somethings from farming families, they developed Nindamani, an AI-driven, weed-removal robot prototype that took top honors at the recent AI at the Edge Challenge on Hackster.io.

Hackster.io is an online community of developers, engineers and hobbyists that drew more than 2,500 registrants and 80 submissions from 35 countries for the NVIDIA-supported contest.

The students from sun-kissed Gandhinagar - in India's western Gujarat Province - are among 10 winners in the competition that called on participants to use the Jetson Nano Developer Kit.

Clever engineers, Patel and Chaniyara designed multiple iterations of their mechanical weeding arm for metal fabrication. For its brains, they trained Mask R-CNN using cloud GPUs to distinguish weeds from plants. Mask R-CNN is a deep neural network that separates different objects in images or videos. Jetson Nano does inference.

Late nights of work paid off. The Nindamani project landed first place in the autonomous machines and robotics category.

'About 90 percent of my relatives are in the farming sector, so you can understand how I'm relating to this problem,' Patel said.

Their home region produces rice, cotton, potatoes, cauliflower and other staples. Yet farmers there - like elsewhere - face labor shortages and herbicide concerns.

Patel and Chaniyara surveyed more than 8,000 farmers in and around the area for input on the problems and the kind of solutions they need.

'They need this kind of AI and some kind of robotic automation technology so they can solve the labor problem and the chemical spraying,' said Patel. 'This can also help yield and profit.'

The Nindamani prototype joins a wave of so-called swarm farming efforts in robotics to harvest AI for efficiency and sustainability. For India's vast farms that feed nearly 1.4 billion people, advances in agriculture technology matter.

Swarm farming robots are designed to tackle tasks with a 'swarm' of multitasking robots - sprayer, weeder, seeder, harvester, hauler - as modular machines. They're developed to stay busier than traditional single-purpose tractors, consume less energy and cost less.

Nindamani is in its early days as a prototype, but the idea is to also lower the costs of machinery for farmers who might otherwise turn to herbicides.

'Weeding is very tedious work, and that is where the automation and the robotics come in,' said Chaniyara.

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San Francisco Long maligned as job-stealers and aspiring overlords, robots are being increasingly relied on as fast, efficient, contagion-proof champions in the war against the deadly coronavirus.

One team of robots temporarily cared for patients in a makeshift hospital in Wuhan, the Chinese city where the COVID-19 outbreak began.

Meals were served, temperatures taken and communications handled by machines, one of them named Cloud Ginger by its maker CloudMinds, which has operations in Beijing and California.

It provided useful information, conversational engagement, entertainment with dancing, and even led patients through stretching exercises, CloudMinds president Karl Zhao said of the humanoid robot.

The smart field hospital was completely run by robots.

A small medical team remotely controlled the field hospital robots. Patients wore wristbands that gathered blood pressure and other vital data.

The smart clinic only handled patients for a few days, but it foreshadowed a future in which robots tend to patients with contagious diseases while health care workers manage from safe distances.

Patients in hospitals in Thailand, Israel and elsewhere meet with robots for consultations done by doctors via videoconference. Some consultation robots even tend to the classic checkup task of listening to patients lungs as they breathe.

Alexandra Hospital in Singapore will use a robot called BeamPro to deliver medicine and meals to patients diagnosed with COVID-19 or those suspected to be infected with the virus in its isolation wards.

Doctors and nurses can control the robot by using a computer from outside the room, and can hold conversations with the patient via the screen and camera.

The robot reduces the number of touch points with patients who are isolated, thereby reducing risk for healthcare workers, the hospitals health innovation director Alexander Yip told local news channel CNA.

Robotic machines can also be sent to scan for the presence of the virus, such as when the Diamond Princess cruise ship cabins were checked for safety weeks after infected passengers were evacuated, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control.

Additionally, hospitals are turning to robots to tirelessly rid room, halls and door handles of viruses and bacteria.

U.S. firm Xenex has seen a surge in demand for its robots that disinfect rooms, according to director of media relations Melinda Hart.

Xenexs LightStrike robots have been used in more than 500 healthcare facilities, with the number of deployed bots rising due to the pandemic, Hart said.

We are getting requests from around the world, Hart said.

In addition to hospitals, were being contacted by urgent care centers, hotels, government agencies and pharmaceutical companies to disinfect rooms.

Shark Robotics in France began testing a decontamination unit about a month ago and has already started getting orders, according to co-founder Cyril Kabbara.

The coronavirus pandemic has caused robotics innovation to accelerate, according to Lesley Rohrbaugh, the director of research for the US Consumer Technology Association.

We are in a time of need for some of this technology, so it seems like benefits outweigh costs, Rohrbaugh said.

Artificial intelligence, sensors and other capabilities built into robots can push up prices, as can the need to bolster high-speed internet connections on which machines often rely, according to Rohrbaugh.

Innovations on the horizon include using drones equipped with sensors and cameras to scan crowds for signs of people showing symptoms of coronavirus infection.

A team at the University of South Australia is working on just that, in collaboration with Canadian drone-maker Draganfly.

The use will be to identify the possible presence of the virus by observing humans, said university professor Javaan Singh Chahl.

It might form part of an early warning system or to establish statistically how many people are afflicted in a population.

His team is working on computer algorithms that can spot sneezing or coughing, say in an airport terminal, and remotely measure peoples pulses and temperatures.

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Much-maligned robots may become heroes in war on coronavirus - The Japan Times

Neato Robotics sent me the Botvac D7 robot vacuum and I really enjoy it. Ive never had a robot vacuum before so I cant compare it to other products, but if youve specifically looked at the D7 before, I recommend it.

This is Neatos top-of-the-line model. This also means top-of-the-line pricing. At US$829.99 it doesnt come cheap, but Neato also has cheaper models like the US$399.99 Neato D3. Of course, lower pricing means less battery life and fewer features, so you get your moneys worth.

The main thing that impresses me about the D7 is how smart it is. You dont have to do much besides emptying the dustbin and making sure there are no cords to get stuck on. Every time it starts, it turns around to note the location of its charger. It then methodically travels around your house, vacuuming everywhere it can reach.

If it runs out of battery, which lasts up to two hours, it drives back to the charger, and once it has a full battery again its smart enough to finish exactly where it was cleaning.It uses laser navigation, which Ive learned is better than other robot vacuums that use infrared cameras.

Speaking of cameras, if youve read my articles regularly, youll know Im privacy-conscious. I was satisfied by Neatos privacy policy, and it doesnt sound like the company wants to share indoor maps of your house like iRobot did. And the fact that the D7 doesnt have cameras puts my mind at ease.

Additionally, you donthave to connect it to Wi-Fi, either. You wont be able to use the app for advanced features, but theres still a physical button on the robot vacuum to turn it on, reset it, and choose the cleaning mode. But as I noted above, even if hackers took control of it in a worse-case scenario, there are no cameras to spy on you anyway.

Something else I liked was that the robot came fully assembled with two spare filters. All I had to do was set it up with Neatos app and let it charge. The package also comes with a physical No-Go Line. Its a flat, magnetic strip you can tape on the floor. Use it if theres an area of your house that you dont want the robot vacuum to enter. You can use the app to create multiple, virtual No-Go Lines as well.

Neatos app is simple and intuitive to use. You can install it on your iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to start, pause, or stop cleaning from afar, plus get notifications about the robots status. The app shows you a map of your home that the D7 created, and it supports multiple floor plans for homes with more than one story. You can zoom in, use spot cleaning so it will clean certain areas of the house, manage the cleaning profile, and set a cleaning schedule. You can manually drive the robot, too.

There are two cleaning modes in the profile. Eco is a lighter, quieter cleaning run and Turbo is a louder, more powerful mode with maximum suction. Theres also a toggle called Extra Care, so it will take extra care when navigating around your home.All of Neatos robots are in the shape of a D; in other words it looks like a standard manual vacuum. The advantage it has over round robots is the ability to clean corners.

The most recent app update added support for Siri Shortcuts. Its cool to be able to use voice commands to tell the robot to start cleaning, pause cleaning, or send it back to the charger. If you have the D7 model, you can use voice commands to clean zones, a.k.a. certain areas of your house.

As you can see, Im quire pleased with my robot vacuum. I decided that hes a boy and his name is Archie. I did curse at him a couple of times (No dont run over my toes you $%&#@!). But otherwise he works great and cleans well. The D7 can handle most any surface, and if it gets stuck it will just shut down. Pick him up, nudge him a couple of times, and he will resume cleaning as if nothing happened.

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Before the pandemic, automation had been gradually replacing human work in a range of jobs, but the pandemic could speed up that process as society sees the benefits of restructuring workplaces in ways that minimize close human contact. In other health and technology news: Alexa's role in the pandemic, telemedicine use, and security concerns.

The New York Times:Robots Welcome To Take Over, As Pandemic Accelerates AutomationThe recycling industry was already struggling before the pandemic. Now, an increasing number of cities are suspending recycling services, partly out of fear that workers might contract the coronavirus from one another while sorting through used water bottles, food containers and boxes. One solution: Let robots do the job. Since the coronavirus took hold in the United States last month, AMP Robotics has seen a significant increase in orders for its robots that use artificial intelligence to sift through recycled material, weeding out trash. (Corkery and Gelles, 4/10)

The New York Times:How Do I Get Help? Dying Coronavirus Patient Asked AlexaThey lived about 20 minutes apart in Michigan, but when a cousin gave the sisters Lou Ann Dagen and Penny Dagen each an Amazon Echo Show last year to make video calls, they would keep each other company for hours on end. The virtual assistant Alexa connected them during meals and discussions about what was on television. I think she just wanted to know that I was there, Penny Dagen, 74, said of her sister, who lived in a nursing home. (Vigdor, 4/9)

Mass INC Polling Group:Telemedicine Use Has Nearly Tripled Among Mass. Residents, Poll ShowsAs Massachusetts approaches a projected surge of COVID-19 cases, residents remain keenly aware of a widespread shortage of tests and protective medical gear. But as the health care system seizes under the weight of coronavirus, one sector of it is growing by leaps and bounds: telemedicine. A rapidly growing share of residents are "seeing" their doctors over the phone or computer, according to data from the latest MassINC/Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts coronavirus tracking poll. (Duggan, 4/9)

WBUR:Psychiatrists Lean Hard On Teletherapy To Reach Isolated Patients In Emotional PainPsychiatrist Philip Muskin is quarantined at home in New York City because he's been feeling a little under the weather and doesn't want to expose anyone to whatever he has. But he continues to see his patients the only way he can: over the phone. (Noguchi, 4/9)

KQED:Security Concerns Prompt Berkeley Unified To Suspend Use Of Zoom For ClassesAround the country, fear over organized Zoombombing campaigns have prompted school leaders to drop Zoom, while others have switched to alternative platforms. School meeting disruptions and reports of racist and pornographic imagery being shown to young children led the FBI to warn schools about using Zoom, and law enforcement agencies have said they'll take on Zoombombers. (Rancao, 4/9)

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ActiNav From Universal Robots (URF) Is a New Ur+ Application Kit for Companies of All Sizes That Simplifies the Integration of Autonomous Bin Picking of Parts and Accurate Placement in Machines Using UR Cobots. ActiNav Synchronously Handles Vision Processing, Collision-Free Motion Planning and Autonomous Real-Time Robot Control, Eliminating the Complexity and Risk Usually Associated With Bin Picking Applications.

The complexity of automated bin picking is well-known throughout the industry, requiring huge efforts in both integration and programming. Today, most bin picking products are solely focused on the vision aspect of bin picking and often require hundreds of lines of additional programming to bridge the gap from pick to place especially if the place is not just dropping into a box or tote but accurately inserting the part into a fixture for further processing. ActiNav Autonomous Bin Pickingchanges all that, allowing manufacturers with limited or no bin picking deployment expertise to quickly achieve high machine uptime and accurate part placement with few operator interventions.

ActiNav combines real-time autonomous motion control, collaborative robotics, vision and sensor systems in one easy to use, fast to deploy and cost-effective kit. The system requires no vision or robotic programming expertise, but is instead based on a teach-by-demonstration principle using a six-step, wizard-guided setup process integrated into the UR cobot teach pendant. ActiNav can be easily and quickly deployed by manufacturers in-house automation teams or through assistance from a Universal Robots distributor or integrator to deliver increased productivity, quality and efficiency.

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Machine tending has always been one of the mainstay applications for our collaborative robot arms, says VP of Product and Applications Management atUniversal Robots, Jim Lawton. We discovered a significant market need for a simple solution that enables UR cobots to autonomously locate and pick parts out of deep bins and place them precisely into a machine. This is not pick and drop; this is accurate pick and part-oriented placement.

ActiNav isavailablethrough URs distribution channel and via the newUR+ Application Kits platform, an expansion of the cobot pioneers successful UR+ ecosystem of components certified to work seamlessly with UR cobots. Like other UR+ application kits, ActiNav is developed with in-depth application knowledge that eliminates the duplication of engineering efforts when deploying widely used applications. ActiNav works with URs UR5e and UR10e e-Series cobots, a UR+ component or user-defined end effector, and application-specific frame or fixture as needed. The kit includes the Autonomous Motion Module (AMM) and ActiNav URCap user interface software, along with a choice of 3D sensors.

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While there is a variety of approaches to automating machine tending stations, many of which include implementing trays, bowl feeders or conveyors to get the parts to the machine, Lawton explains how ActiNav bypasses this step. Parts are often already in bins, so the most flexible and scalable option is to deliver that bin of parts to the machine and then pick them directly from the bin and place them into the machine, he says. This minimizes floor space and reduces the need for part-specific tooling.

ActiNav autonomously inserts parts into CNC or processing machines such as drilling, deburring, welding, trimming or tapping. The high-resolution 3D sensor and CAD matching enables high-accuracy picks powered by ActiNavs Autonomous Motion Module (AMM) that determines how to pick the part, then controls the robot to pick the part and place it in a fixture each time. The autonomous motion control enables ActiNav to operate inside deep bins that hold more parts; something that standalone bin picking vision systems struggle to accomplish.

IDCs Research Director covering robotics, Remy Glaisner, is closely following the market for automated machine tending solutions. Today more than ever, technology users are looking to preserve the integrity and continuity of business operations, he says. In that context, simplifying the integration or redeployment of highly flexible robotic systems becomes a critical capability for manufacturers and other industrial users.In many ways, ActiNav will set a new level of operational expectations regarding the future of intelligent systems.

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