Introduction: The Automation Boom’s Dirty Secret Go into any contemporary factory and there they are– shining robotic arms building cars, wrapping and wrapping products, even doing surgery. Robotics is a booming market with the worldwide sales reaching 553,000 units in the year 2023 (IFR). However, this is the sad reality that no one is complaining Read details…
There is nothing futuristic about Automation: it is being done, here and now. Go to an Amazon warehouse and you will find that there are thousands of robots buzzing around, transporting goods faster than any human being. Come 2024, the e-commerce giant had installed 750,000 or more robotic systems, reducing labour requirements at certain locations Read details…
Automatic tractors manufactured by John Deere were supposed to be the next milestone in farming- efficient, accurate and revolutionary. However, in its place they are encountering demonstrations. Between Iowa and Nebraska, farmers are rebelling against rising prices, tightly locked software, and the ominous sensation that they no longer really possess their gear. So what happened? Read details…
The Dawn of Algorithmic Warfare AI and Robotics: A few decades in the past, battle involved mainly soldiers in boots and armed with bullets. Currently, things like bots, drones, and algorithms are big in AI. It is common to picture soldiers in action, but there are hidden swarms of autonomous systems conducting strikes to an Read details…