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I suspect Im not alone in having less-than-satisfactory experiences with self-checkout machines at grocery stores. Many of us have dealt with the frustration of the machine blaring at us to remove a mysterious item from the bagging area, only to then wait for a human employee to assist us anyway. Im not just put off by the technology as a customer but also as a professor who specializes in the field of automation, and for one particular reason: even though self-checkouts are labeled as automation, theyre actually not.

According to Merriam-Webster, automation is the automatically controlled operation of an apparatus, process, or system by mechanical or electronic devices that take the place of human labor. Increasingly, there is a tendency to label any new technology as such, especially if it appears to do the job of a human, but perceptions can be deceiving. In the case of self-checkout machines, a robot hasnt replaced the cashiers job of scanning or bagging groceries; a human is still performing those tasks but its now the customer rather than the cashier. In other words, nothing has actually been automated. Self-checkouts have not only lowered the customer experience, making it more inconvenient and less enjoyable, but also displaced jobs, many of which are incorrectly blamed on automation.

In order to improve public understanding, as well as guide how we utilize automated technologies moving forward, engineers and other stakeholders need to consider the following. First, we must find ways to better communicate what automated technologies are and what they arent and highlight how they improve peoples lives. Secondly, it is incumbent on us to determine why we are designing these technologies. Is the goal to improve quality of life and work? Or human productivity? Both, or neither? If automation is going to continue permeating society, its crucial that we, both those creating it and those affected by it, have a fuller, more thoughtful approach to how we think and talk about automation.

So-so automation

While our lives may seem more automated, which is cause for alarm for some, the reality is that weve been living with automation for decades without fully appreciating it. For instance, an appliance many people use daily provides an understated example: your oven. You set the temperature you want to cook at, and the oven maintains that temperature on its own. Its a simple directive, with the oven performing its functionality without user involvement.

But other forms of automation arent always as helpful or productive. A recent New York Times article about changes to corporate workplaces due to COVID-19 addressed so-so automation technology that is just barely good enough to replace human workers, but not good enough to create new jobs or make companies significantly more productive, according to the article. At best, its a neutral addition and at worst, a negative one; the output is the same, and little to nothing new comes out of it. The article cites self-checkouts as an example, but also notes white-collar jobs are increasingly at risk, and at a faster pace than ever before. If automation is simply displacing humans, rather than improving what they can do, its no surprise that it will be met with hesitation, if not opposition.

In other cases, true automation is deployed without full consideration of its impact on individual human populations. The New York Police Department recently began using a dog robot called Digidog during patrols. On one hand, Digidog can help police surveil dangerous situations and cover more ground. But Jay Stanley, a senior policy analyst with the American Civil Liberties Union, raised concerns to the Times about bias, surveillance and privacy over using a robot for this type of work. Technology like Digidog can have an adverse effect on the communities it is being used in, particularly if those communities are not educated about the technology, and its capabilities and limits. This can further alienate people from automation.

The case for automation

I conduct research and teach courses in the field of control systems which are at the heart of automated technologies, and was driven to this field because of the positive impact it has had, and can continue to have on society. Nonetheless, I acknowledge why automation is resisted by those who are most negatively affected by it, whether in the workplace or in their daily lives.

The solution is to move away from so-so automation and towards innovation that actually pushes the ball forward for people, workers, business, and society more holistically. There are already plenty of examples of automated technologies that we engage with regularly, such as autofill text on your mobile devices, robot vacuums, smart thermostats, adaptive cruise control in passenger vehicles, and plenty more on the way. We intrinsically understand how all of these types of automation make our lives easier, just as we fundamentally recognize when a technology is not.

If both users of automation and its creators have a clear-eyed view of what the technology is and how they can use it, we will be able to leverage it more effectively. This may require improving how we educate students, and the general public, about technology and its impact on humanity. Automation is sure to have a significant impact on our lives, so lets make sure its a positive one.

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Amsterdam-based SEGRON has raised 4.5 million, now bringing their total capital raised to 10 million.

The round was led by OTB Ventures and Credo, and is expected to fuel international expansion and the entry to new industry verticals.

SEGRON is rapidly expanding with a strategy that addresses the needs of companies at the forefront of digital transformation, accelerated by Covid-19. New industries are adopting automated testing at pace, to quickly respond to fast-evolving consumer expectations and the increased technological complexity of the digital ecosystem, says co-founder and Managing Partner at OTB Ventures Marcin Hejka. SEGRON is a great example of first-class European software, enhancing the online experience of consumers and businesses around the world.

The global pandemic has driven significant demand for automation services. According to Global Market Insights, automated testing expected to grow at 15% CAGR between 2020 and 2026, presenting an estimated global market value of $35 billion.

Telecoms operators including Telefonica, The T-Mobile Group, and Swisscom are all racing at breakneck speed to meet customer expectations and rollout next-generation 5G and IoT services, all of which require strenuous amounts of automated testing, an area which has been SEGRONs primary focus.

Delivering on their promise and establishing a successful track record, SEGRON is now looking beyond their continental borders and has already inked an agreement with a Canadian telecoms operator. Additionally, this round of funding will also see the company looking eastward to the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific region.

And while the telecom industry might be the current bread-and-butter, automated testing has a wide range of applications, particularly within the automotive industry. SEGRONs recent appointments of Jean-Philippe Leloup (formerly of Ferrari/Maserati) as Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Rita DAgostino (formerly of Fiat Chrysler, Kia, and Maserati) as Chief Marketing Officer signal a strong move intention to transfer this experience into cars. Wireless connectivity plays a key factor in the auto of tomorrow, with everything from automated robotic assembly lines to self-driving cars all requiring vast amounts of bandwidth and low latency services; All of which need continuous and fully automated testing.

This is an important milestone for SEGRON as we enable some of the worlds greatest innovators to rise to the industrial-scale challenges and opportunities emerging in the past 12 months. Our automated solutions help companies to improve their end customers experience, increase productivity and improve speed-to-market for new products and services, comments SEGRON founder and CEO Thomas Groissenberger.

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NASAs SBIR program regularly doles out cash to promising small businesses and research programs, and the lists of awardees is always interesting to sift through. Here are a dozen companies and proposals from this batch that are especially compelling or suggest new directions for missions and industry in space.

Sadly these brief descriptions are often all that is available. These things are often so early stage that theres nothing to show but some equations and a drawing on the back of a napkin but NASA knows promising work when it sees it. (You can learn more about how to apply for SBIR grants here.)

Autonomous deorbiting system

Martian Sky Technologies wins the backronym award with Decluttering of Earth Orbit to Repurpose for Bespoke Innovative Technologies, or DEORBIT, an effort to create an autonomous clutter-removal system for low Earth orbit. It is intended to monitor a given volume and remove any intruding items, clearing the area for construction or occupation by another craft.

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Ultrasonic additive manufacturing

There are lots of proposals for various forms of 3D printing, welding and other things important to the emerging field of On-orbit servicing, assembly, and manufacturing or OSAM. One I found interesting uses ultrasonics, which is weird to me because clearly, in space, theres no atmosphere for ultrasonic to work in (Im going to guess they thought of that). But this kind of counterintuitive approach could lead to a truly new approach.

Robots watch each others backs

Doing OSAM work will likely involve coordinating multiple robotic platforms, something thats hard enough on Earth. TRAClabs is looking into a way to enhance perceptual feedback and decrease the cognitive load on operators by autonomously moving robots not in use to positions where they can provide useful viewpoints of the others. Its a simple idea and fits with the way humans tend to work if youre not the person doing the actual task, you automatically move out of the way and to a good position to see whats happening.

3D printed Hall effect thrusters

Hall effect thrusters are a highly efficient form of electric propulsion that could be very useful in certain types of in-space maneuvering. But theyre not particularly powerful, and it seems that to build larger ones existing manufacturing techniques will not suffice. Elementum 3D aims to accomplish it by developing a new additive manufacturing technique and cobalt-iron feedstock that should let them make these things as big as they want.

Venusian batteries

Venus is a fascinating place, but its surface is extremely hostile to machines the way theyre built here on Earth. Even hardened Mars rovers like Perseverance would succumb in minutes, seconds even in the 800 F heat. Among the many ways they would fail is that the batteries they use would overheat and possibly explode. TalosTech and the University of Delaware are looking into an unusual type of battery that would operate at high temperatures by using atmospheric CO2 as a reactant.

Neuromorphic low-SWaP radio

When youre going to space, every gram and cubic centimeter counts, and once youre out there, every milliwatt does as well. Thats why theres always a push to switch legacy systems to low size, weight and power (low-SWaP) alternatives. Intellisense is taking on part of the radio stack, using neuromorphic (i.e., brainlike but not in a sci-fi way) computing to simplify and shrink the part that sorts and directs incoming signals. Every gram saved is one more spacecraft designers can put to work elsewhere, and they may get some performance gains as well.

Making space safer with lidar

Astrobotic is becoming a common name to see in NASAs next few years of interplanetary missions, and its research division is looking at ways to make both spacecraft and surface vehicles like rovers smarter and safer using lidar. One proposal is a lidar system narrowly focused on imaging single small objects in a sparse scene (e.g., scanning one satellite from another against the vastness of space) for the purposes of assessment and repair. The second involves a deep learning technique applied to both lidar and traditional imagery to identify obstacles on a planets surface. The team for that one is currently also working on the VIPER water-hunting rover aiming for a 2023 lunar landing.

Monitoring space farms

Bloomfield does automated monitoring of agriculture, but growing plants in orbit or on the surface or Mars is a little different than here on Earth. But its hoping to expand to Controlled Environment Agriculture, which is to say the little experimental farms weve used to see how plants grow under weird conditions like microgravity. They plan to use multispectral imaging and deep learning analysis thereof to monitor the state of plants constantly so astronauts dont have to write leaf 25 got bigger every day in a notebook.

Regolith bricks

The Artemis program is all about going to the moon to stay, but we havent quite figured out that last part. Researchers are looking into how to refuel and launch rockets from the lunar surface without bringing everything involved with them, and Exploration Architecture aims to take on a small piece of that, building a lunar launchpad literally brick by brick. It proposes an integrated system that takes lunar dust or regolith, melts it down, then bakes it into bricks to be placed wherever needed. Its either that or bring Earth bricks, and I can tell you thats not a good option.

Several other companies and research agencies proposed regolith-related construction and handling as well. It was one of a handful of themes, some of which are a little too in the weeds to go into.

Another theme was technologies for exploring ice worlds like Europa. Sort of like the opposite of Venus, an ice planet will be lethal to ordinary rovers in many ways and the conditions necessitate different approaches for power, sensing and traversal.

NASA isnt immune to the new trend of swarms, be they satellite or aircraft. Managing these swarms takes a lot of doing, and if theyre to act as a single distributed machine (which is the general idea) they need a robust computing architecture behind them. Numerous companies are looking into ways to accomplish this.

You can see the rest of NASAs latest SBIR grants, and the technology transfer program selections too, at the dedicated site here. And if youre curious how to get some of that federal cash yourself, read on below.

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Accounting software specialist BlackLine has declared that business resilience and cash management is a major priority for organisations now more than ever, and this has inspired the company to release a new offering as part of its accounts receivable automation solutions portfolio.

BlackLine AI Intelligence is a new offering that provides deep insights into financial risks within a customer base, removing the need for manual data searches. The offering is designed to be used in conjunction with BlackLine Cash Application, combining real-time data collection and analytics to paint a picture of customers financial behaviours.

According to BlackLine global accounts receivables business unit managing director Kevin Kimber, the BlackLine AR Intelligence solution can also deliver real-time credit, debt, and sales insights that can be used by teams such as accounts receivable, credit management and order-to-cash.

[This can also include] other senior stakeholders such as the CFO, Office of the Controller, Treasury and even the CRO/Sales team, enabling companies to reduce risk, improve forecasting, optimise working capital and grow revenues by analysing precise customer payment and credit behaviours.

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BlackLine states that it is actively expanding its capabilities in accounts receivable automation, particularly after its US$150 million acquisition of UK firm Rimilia in October 2020.

BlackLine made the acquisition to expand its capabilities in accounts receivable automation, adding this automation to financial close automation and accelerating BlackLine's larger, long-term plan for modernising both accounting and finance.

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