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Manoj Karkee, an associate professor in WSUs Department of Biological Systems Engineering, is leading a team thats exploring the potential of robotic pollination. (WSU Photo)

Washington State University researchers are leading a team thats exploring the use of robotic pollinators to assist fruit farmers. The project just received a three-year grant totaling nearly $1 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture through the Washington State Department of Agriculture.

The team is building on and adapting existing machine learning and robotics technology, including tools being developed to mechanically thin plants or pick fruit such as apples.

This is an important project, and a lot of work, but were confident well be able to put together all of these different pieces into a viable prototype that could be a huge help for the agriculture industry in the future, said Manoj Karkee, the project lead and an associate professor in WSUs Department of Biological Systems Engineering and Center for Precision and Automated Agricultural Systems, in a prepared statement.

The research includes building technology to locate flower blossoms on trees growing in orchards and creating a robotic hand to perform the delicate task of pollinating the flowers. The team includes scientists from Penn State University.

A robotic pollinator could provide a stable and efficient process according to the WSU scientists. Researchers elsewhere have been developing flying drones and brush-wielding, wheeled robots to pollinate crops. In 2018, Walmart applied for a patent for an unmanned vehicle crop pollinator.

But other scientists warn that the development of mechanical bees are not a pollinating panacea and could pose substantial ecological and moral risks. Their concerns include the cost of the robots, their potential harm to ecosystems and biodiversity, and fears that a dependence on robot pollinators could create food insecurity.

WSU researchers are involved in multiple projects in the field of precision agriculture.

In order to pollinate their crops, farmers currently bring honey bee hives to their fields. But U.S. bee populations have been struggling since at least the mid-2000s with the rise of colony collapse disorder and now face the threat of the deadly Asian giant hornet or murder hornet, which has been spotted in Washington state and British Columbia.

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Surgical Robots For The Spine Market Research Report 2020-2026

Chapter 1: Industry Overview

Chapter 2: Surgical Robots For The Spine Market International and China Market Analysis

Chapter 3: Environment Analysis of Market.

Chapter 4: Surgical Robots For The Spine Analysis of Revenue by Classifications

Chapter 5: Analysis of Revenue by Regions and Applications

Chapter 6: Analysis of Surgical Robots For The Spine Market Revenue Market Status.

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Chapter 8: Sales Price and Gross Margin Analysis of Market.

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As COVID-19 continues to bolster the global delivery and logistics market, warehouse robotics startup Geek+ today announced it has extended its series C funding round to $200 million, up from $150 million in July 2019. The company says the deal, which closed earlier this year, will support expansion of its robot-as-a-service program and its relationships with technology and ecosystem partners.

Worker shortages caused by the pandemic have prompted some retailer, fulfillment, and logistics companies to accelerate the rollout of mobile robots. Gap more than tripled the number of item-picking machines it uses to 106, while Amazon says its relying more heavily on automation for product sorting. According to ABI Research, more than 4 million commercial robots will be installed in over 50,000 warehouses around the world by 2025, up from just under 4,000 warehouses in 2018.

Geek+, which was founded in 2015, develops a range of AI-imbued logistics robots addressing scenarios in warehouses, factories, and sorting centers. The company claims its line of picking robots can autonomously carry thousands of pounds and says its smart factory system which replaces traditional conveyor-belt-style assembly line setups can almost double production capacity through a combination of internet of things devices, 5G, edge computing, and real-time computer vision.

Geek+ also supplies the planning software that drives its autonomous robots, most of which use lidar, collision sensors, RGB cameras, visual simultaneous localization, and mapping technologies to navigate factory floors. Algorithms facilitate things like order grouping and finding box sizes according to a products weight and measurements by mining and analyzing historical data. The robots also move inventory to easy-to-reach places within warehouses and factories based on predicted demand:

Geek+ says during Singles Day in China last year, iWMS helped process a combined 8.11 million delivery orders for ecommerce customers.

The Beijing-based startups funding extension comes after it brought its warehouse robots to the U.S. via a partnership with North American order fulfillment and distribution center system integrator Conveyco. Geek+ recently worked with Walmart to deploy robots in the retailers Shenzhen distribution center, improving picking efficiency by a claimed 3.5 times. It also installed dozens of picking robots in Dells Xiamen spare parts warehouse and Decathlons Kunshan warehouse to reduce the need for on-site operators. And in Japan, it teamed up with Nike to enable same-day delivery in the Greater Tokyo area.

Geek+ says it has over 300 customers (including Alibaba and Suning) which together have deployed more than 10,000 of its robots in over 20 countries.

This latest C2 funding round, which was led by V Fund with participation from Redview Capital and Vertex Ventures, brings Geek+s total raised to nearly $390 million with a reported post-money valuation of $2 billion. (GGV Capital, D1 Capital Partners, and Warburg Pincus contributed to last years C1.) In addition to its Beijing headquarters, the 800-employee company has offices in Germany, the U.K., the U.S., Japan, Hong Kong, and Singapore

Geek+ competes in the $3.1 billion intelligent machines market with Los Angeles-based robotics startup InVia, which leases automated robotics technologies to fulfillment centers;Gideon Brothers, a Croatia-based industrial startup backed by TransferWise cofounder Taavet Hinrikus; robotics systems company GreyOrange; Berkshire Grey, which combines AI and robotics to automate multichannel fulfillment for retailers, ecommerce, and logistics enterprises; and Otto Motors. Fulfillment alone is a $9 billion industry roughly 60,000 employees handle orders in the U.S., and companies like Apple manufacturing partner Foxconn have deployed tens of thousandsof assistive robots in assembly plants overseas.

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Robotic Parking Systems Market will Hit Big Revenues in Future | COVID19 Unlock opportunities - Cole of Duty

They have been compared to quantum leaps in humanitys historic journey. But they are more like Grand Canyon-style jumps in our evolution.

During the past 200 years, technological revolutions have expanded the borders of globalization and have dragged millions of people out of poverty. Yet they have come at a price.

The FourthIndustrialRevolution will be no different.

Already the landscape is changing dramatically with China at the forefront of this brave, new world for some and a nightmare for others.

China is using automation on a scale like no other country. From AI news anchors on [state-run television] to one-minute [health] clinics to robot-run factories, China is using artificial intelligence and robots to take over the entire spectrum of human capabilities, Abishur Prakash, a geopolitical futurist at the Center for Innovating the Future, a strategy consulting firm, told Asia Times.

This could transform politics in the country. It was city-jobs that drove urbanization in China. Now, however, if the blue-collar and white-collar jobs are both being automated, reverse urbanization may follow. This will create a new kind of economy for China, which in turn could change domestic politics, trade deals and foreign policy,he said.

The sheer scale of Beijings ambitions are immense. Investment in science and technology research in the worlds second-largest economy was US$355.4 billion last year or 2.5% of GDP, official data revealed.

Only the United States spent more as China edged past Japan.

Read: Chinas high-tech dream could come at a price

Moveover, funding looks certain to accelerate in 2020 with 3 trillion yuan, or $423 billion, earmarked for major projects in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.

Up to 17.5 trillion yuan, or $2.47 trillion, will be pumped into ramping up infrastructure spending in the high-tech sector during the next six years, the Shanghai Securities News reported in May.

Priority funding in the next 12 months will go to 5G base stations, EV charging outlets, big data centers, AI and the industrial internet, such as robotics.

Read: Cold War chill sweeps through China

Also, unlike previous rounds of traditional infrastructure investment on roads, bridges and high-speed rail networks, private companies will be heavily involved in the mix.

Still, the pace of change will generate a different set of problems, including the specter of unemployment.

China has dealt with large-scale layoffs or economic downturns by creating a massive state-run construction force. But, now, the people that may lose their jobs to automation may be the educated, skilled class in cities like Shenzhen and Shanghai. Whats Chinas plan for them?, Prakash, the author of The Age of Killer Robots, said.

Since 2014, the nations automation industry has expanded by 28% with 650,000 robots going online in 2018.

Yet this has generated a backlash from the Chinese public. A study released to the media by Spanish university IE showed a rise in robophobia during the coronavirus crisis.

Before the pandemic infected more than nine million people worldwide, only 27% supported limited automation in China. That number has more than doubled to 59%, with the Chinese just behind the French as the most hostile to automation.

The changing nature of work is generating fears about mass unemployment. These trends are straining the relationships among citizens, firms and governments across the globe, the World Bank stated in a report, entitled the Changing Nature of Work, last year.

Even so, the benefits of the controversial Made in China 2025 digital program proved vital during the Covid-19 crisis.

Read: Claims of a mutating virus spooks Beijing

Artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and 5G effectively improved the efficiency of the countrys efforts in tackling the epidemic.

It [was crucial] to monitoring virus tracking, prevention, control and treatment, [as well as] resource allocation, Qi Xiaoxia, the director-general of the Cyberspace Administration of Chinas Bureau of International Cooperation, said in a commentary published on the World Economic Forum website in April.

Even basic models of service robots appeared to play their role in delivering meals and cleaning hospital corridors.

Admittedly, the acceleration of automation may reduce certain jobs on an individual basis. Some people may suffer, which is the inevitable cost of technological transition and advancement still, new jobs will be created to replace those that have been lost,Jon Yuan Jiang, an assistant researcher at the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, told Asia Times.

Read: Vaccine race intensifies amid virus second wave

But concerns persist. In developed and developing economies, the fallout from the coronavirus catastrophe threatens to trigger economic pandemonium and ballooning unemployment across the globe.

The urban jobless numbers in China have been on the rise since the start of the year. For the upper echelons of the ruling Communist Party, unemployment is a notoriously sensitive subject.

Indeed, the FourthIndustrialRevolution risks adding to the upheaval.

Already, its projected that 51 million jobs in Europe could disappear because of automation [with Covid-19 being a factor]. The point is, the appetite for automation is rising and its no longer limited to just entry-level jobs, Prakash, of the Center for Innovating the Future, said.

Its no longer just about janitors or truck drivers or factory workers. Everyone could be on the chopping block because the pandemic has fundamentally changed how businesses operate. There are now huge geopolitical risks as automation takes off, he added.

Possibly, a revolution against a revolution?

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