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WASHINGTONStroking his hair as the former presidential candidate fell to his knees in despair, Professor Elijah Tresswell, CEO of Tresswell Robotics, reportedly told a sobbing Andrew Yang Wednesday that he was his greatest creation. I understand that this must be quite a shock to you, Andrew, but all your memories from your life before the campaign were simply constructed narratives implanted into your neural processor, said Tresswell, urging Yang to take pride in the tremendous technological advances that hed helped bring into existence. Ive watched you with such delight as, with each presidential debate, you became more sophisticated, more emotive, more human. Dont fret, my sweet Andrew, for though you failed to become the nominee, you have achieved something far greater, my son. At press time, an anguished Yang had reportedly crushed Tresswells skull with his bare hands before fleeing through the rain-drenched streets of D.C.

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This years Nvidia Jetson Developer Days aims to provide deep and comprehensive insights into one of the most important computing systems for robotics and artificial intelligence currently on the market.

Nvidia is one of the worlds largest microprocessor manufacturers and high on the Robotics and Automation News list of top 25 AI chip companies.

Its computers are used as the platform for autonomous car development and advanced driver assistance systems by most of the largest automotive companies in the world companies such as Bosch, BMW, Mercedes and many others.

Nvidia has made at least two ready-made Jetson developer kits.

The Jetson Nano Developer Kit is a small, powerful computer that lets developers multiple neural networks in parallel for applications like image classification, object detection, segmentation, and speech processing all in one platform that runs on 5 watts.

The Nvidia Jetson AGX Xavier developer kit enables developers to create and deploy end-to-end AI robotics applications for manufacturing, delivery, retail, smart cities, and more.

Supported by Nvidia JetPack and DeepStream SDKs, as well as CUDA, cuDNN, and TensorRT software libraries, the kit provides all the tools developers need to get started right away.

And because its powered by the new Nvidia Xavier processor, developers now have more than 20 times the performance and 10 times the energy efficiency of its predecessor, the Nvidia Jetson TX2.

Its popularity has led Nvidia to organize these Jetson Developer Days which are aimed at embedded computing enthusiasts.

This years two-day event will feature Nvidia product specialists and community members who will provide hands-on insights into robotics, artificial intelligence of things, or AIoT, industrial inspection, medical imaging, and intelligent video analytics.

Some of the confirmed workshops include:

More workshops are planned and await confirmation, and the experts at the event will make themselves available to attendeed for one-to-one questions and answers.

Additionally, Nvidia is planning an autonomous car race, using small, radio-controlled cars; and numerous industrial robotic arms and wheeled and canine robots.

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Central Pa.s most well-known robot is celebrating a milestone.

It has been more than one year since Giant Food Stores started its nationwide rollout of Marty at 177 stores.

Standing 6-foot-4, the slender, slow-moving employee glides around the chains stores checking for spills and safety hazards.

He has become a celebrity. Kids love him and several Facebook pages are dedicated to him. Last fall Marty even inspired a pet shop tortoises Halloween costume.

Some shoppers greet the googly-eyed robot or snap selfies with him. Others appear annoyed or agitated as they attempt to navigate their shopping carts around him.

William Rucker and his grandson Justice, say hello to a robot named Marty as it scans the floors at a Giant grocery store in Harrisburg, Pa., Tuesday, Jan. 15, 2019. AP Photo/Matt Rourke)AP

On a recent PennLive Facebook post, reactions to Marty ranged from affection to animosity.

I think hes adorable. And if he gets in your way, its only momentarily and not enough to ruin the shopping experience, wrote Mary Katherine.

So creepy! I feel uncomfortable shopping when its roaming, chimed in Elisa Cannaday.

Other responses bordered on comical like this one from Heather Slaughter McGrath Lawless: The perfect man good listener always on the look out .. children love him Is he single?

Shopper Faith Marie shared this story on the post: He scared me the other day and I thought maybe be could understand me. I asked where the kidney beans were and he turned and I started to follow him. I looked closer and saw that he was merely cleaning the store. I thought man the blind leading the blind.

It wasnt too long ago robots seemed futuristic, something out of a sci-fi movie. Now, the roving machines are as common at grocery stores as self-checkouts and shopper club cards. But the technology is raising concerns over privacy and job security.

Today its a little Twilight Zone, said Jeff Metzger, president and publisher of Food Trade News, a grocery industry publication.

A growing force

Last year, Giants parent company Ahold Delhaize USA, deployed Marty at some Martins and Stop & Shop locations, raising the ranks to more than 500 machines. Ahold said the technology is designed to improve in-store efficiencies, eliminate accidents and free up employees to better serve customers.

Giant spokeswoman Ashley Flowers said Giant has no additional plans at this time for Marty. Giant has said in the past its robots are not intended to replace workers.

Marty is not the only robot patrolling grocery aisles.

Walmart unleashed automated floor scrubbers at 1,500 stores and has 350 Bossa Nova shelf-scanning robots in action, with plans to expand the fleet to 1,000 by this summer. The chain has also implemented high-tech pickup towers, an oversized vending machine that allows shoppers to pick up online orders.

All three of the technologies are used at Walmart in Carlisle. There the robot maneuvers around the aisles scanning shelf tags for out of stock and low inventory items. He catches the attention of some shoppers who do double-takes or try and talk to the machine. For the most part, shoppers leave it alone.

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When it first came in a lot of (customers) thought was was really cool. For now, its almost commonplace, said Thomas Herd, store manager.

On the West Coast, Simbe Robotics in San Francisco has deployed Tally, a slender 5-foot tall robot at 15 St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets. The robot is also being tested as part of a pilot program at Giant Eagle stores in Pittsburgh and parts of Ohio.

Simbe Robotics in San Francisco has deployed Tally, a slender 5-foot tall robot, at 118 St. Louis-based Schnuck Markets. The robot is also being tested as part of a pilot program at Giant Eagles in Pittsburgh and parts of Ohio.Photo provided by Simbe Robotics

Tally is equipped with sensors and cameras to track inventory and incorrect prices. The robots traverse the aisles several times per day, scanning about 35,000 products in the center store grocery and health, care and beauty aisles, according to the company.

In the case of Giant Eagles pilot, Tally sends detailed data reports to store teams every 30 minutes. The reports capture, report and analyze the availability and state of merchandise.

Technology like automation can help the store teams much like a power tool to a carpenter helps them be more efficient, said Brad Bogolea, Simbes CEO and co-founder.

Tracking inventory can be a major undertaking for retailers who risk lost profits and customers when products are missing from shelves. According to the IHL Group, retailers lose up $1.75 trillion annually due to the cost of overstocks, out-of-stocks and needless returns.

Thats a big deal for retailers, especially with competition from Amazon. At least one-quarter of Amazons revenue, Bogolea said, comes from customers who went to a store and couldnt find what they were looking for.

In the end, the robots help shoppers find what they need and also free up employees to focus on customer service and more meaningful tasks, instead of stock checks, which can be mundane or monotonous.

But the devices might be backfiring. Some Walmart workers told the Washington Post the robots make them feel more like machines. Workers at one of the stores in Georgia said the robots have suffered breakdowns, needed retraining and have taken wrong routes around the store.

Some also feel like their most important assignment now is to train and babysit the often inscrutable robot colleagues, according to the story.

Carlisles Herd said they havent encountered any issues at his store and the robots have saved countless hours of work once done by a handful of employees. Those workers are now directed to other tasks like stocking shelves, he said, adding no employees have lost their jobs because of the robots.

"Its here to make our jobs more efficient, to better serve customers, Herd said.

Are they spies?

For shoppers, their first encounter with these robots is often at the supermarket.

At times, it can be hard to coexist. Constant beeping and blocking aisles were among the top complaints named on the PennLive Facebook post. Some said they think the machines are spies recording their every move as they buy breakfast cereal, spaghetti sauce and frozen green beans.

There is some skepticism associated with the robots that ranges from shoppers questioning grocers investments to how the robots are being used to whether employees will be out of jobs, said Charles Palmer, associate professor of interactive media at Harrisburg University in Harrisburg.

There will be those type of complaints. We see that with all types of technology unveiled. It takes the general public a while to get used to it, he said.

Simbes Bogolea said introducing automation can be a bit of a process when you consider that physical retail hasnt changed much since the arrival of the bar code and cash registers.

Most of what people know about robots today ... is what they see in the movies or they may have a vacuum cleaning robot at home, he said.

The grocers Bogoleas company partners with educate employees and emphasize the value of the robots to employees and shoppers. Signs in the stores explain the robots.

Giants Marty robots are affixed with signs explaining the machines are autonomous and designed to check floors for hazards. Harrisburg Universitys Palmer said the robots are personalized with the googly eyes and name tags for a reason.

With a personality, the robots pose less of a threat to shoppers, he said.

As far as any notion the robots are spying on you as you shop, Bogolea said the sensor data used for Tallys navigation is similar to a Tetris or Minecraft game and not designed for security or customer analytics.

When Tally navigates around customers, those sensors stop capturing shelf data for privacy reasons, he added.

I think the way we have designed the robot, Im surprised how seamlessly it blends into the space, and its surprising how many people dont notice it, he said.

The future

Robots are here to stay. In fact, many say the technology has far-reaching applications.

Increasingly, technology has become a significant part of retailers budgets and uses will likely expand to warehouses and grocery delivery and pickup facilities, Metzger said.

Online grocery shopping now accounts for more than six percent of grocery-related spending in the United States, according to Bricks Meets Clicks.

The novelty aspect significantly outstrips the potential they have for interior applications, he said.

Wegmans said it has no plans to involve robots in its stores. Weis Markets said it is examining various technologies, including cloud-based systems, but hasnt come to a decision, said spokesman Dennis Curtin.

Harrisburg Universitys Palmer said robots like Marty are harbingers, providing ideas about how the technology can be used. He said shoppers can expect more mobile applications linked to cell phones such as ones that might help them find items on their grocery lists.

Eventually, the robots might have capabilities to detect whether certain produce like avocados are rotting so the items can be pulled from the shelf, Bogolea said. But he said the robots will likely never have arms or interact directly with shoppers.

When it comes to picking products, we shouldnt underestimate how good human design and vision is. ... I dont think shoppers are really interested in a retail shopping experience with a large number of robots across the physical store, he said.

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How to prepare for an economy of robots & AI, and an aging population

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>> WELCOME TO NEW HAMPSHIRE'S BUSINESS, I'M FRED KOCUR. WORK OF THE FUTURE. LET'S GO TO THE GRAPHIC AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT I MEAN. IN 2018, THE PEW RESEARCH CENTER FOUND BETWEEN 65 AND 90% OF THOSE SURVEYED IN ADVANCED ECONOMIES BELIEVE THAT ROBOTS AND COMPUTERS WILL PROBABLY OR DEFINITELY TAKE OVER MANY JOBS NOW DONE BY HUMANS AND THIS IS A SUBJECT THAT IS NOW THE PROCESS, IN THE PROCESS OF BEING LOOKED AT BY A TASK FORCE AT MIT AND THE HEAD OF THAT TASK FORCE IS WITH ME AS MY GUEST. ELIZABETH REYNOLDS THE TASK FORCE ON WORK OF THE FUTURE. NICE TO HAVE YOU HERE. >> WONDERFUL. >> WHAT IS THE THING THAT BROUGHT THIS TASK FORCE ABOUT? >> WELL, THERE'S A LOT OF ANXIETY AND UNCERTAINTY ABOUT THE FUTURE OF WORK BECAUSE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES THAT HAVE COME ONLINE, AI, ROBOTICS, ET CETERA. SO THE FAST FORCE IS LOOKING AT THE CHANGING NATURE OF WORK, SKILLS REQUIRED TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO ENSURE SHARED PROSPERITY GOING FORWARD. >> TWO OF THE VARIABLES ARE ON THE GRAPH. LET'S GO TO THE FIRST ONE. THIS GRAPH, LOOK AT THE LINES, THE WORKING AGE SHARE OF THE U.S. POPULATION IS CONTRACTING AND GOING DOWN. WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT? >> RIGHT, BASICALLY WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT HAPPENED TO OUR WORKING AGE POPULATION FROM 1980 TO PROJECTED 24. AT THE TOP LINE USED TO HAVE A HIGHER SHARE OF WORKING AGE POPULATION AND LOWER SHARE OF SENIORS, ADULT POPULATION, AND NOW, THE RED LINE IS WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A FEW DECADES AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S A BIT CONCERNING, WE'RE ESSENTIALLY INCREASING OUR RETIRED AGE OF THE POPULATION, DECREASING OUR WORKING AGE POPULATION AND WHAT WE SEE GOING FORWARD IS REALLY A SCARCITY OF WORKERS, NOT AN ABUNDANCE OF JOBS. >> YEAH, YEAH, AND THAT'S CONCERNING. WE'RE ALREADY SEEING THE BEGINNINGS OF THAT WITH BUSINESSES LOOKING FOR EMPLOYEES RIGHT ACROSS THE BOARD. NOW, LET'S GO TO THE NEXT GRAPHIC AND THIS ONE IS THE CHANGE IN LABOR PRODUCTIVITY AND COMPENSATION BETWEEN 1948 AND 2018 AND THAT TOP LINE AND THE MIDDLE LINE, WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT? >> THE TOP LINES SHOW US THAT ESSENTIALLY SINCE 1980, WE'VE HAD THIS DIVERGENCE BETWEEN GROWING PRODUCTIVITY AND THE TWO BOTTOM LINES, MEDIAN WORKER COMPENSATION AND REALLY, WHAT WORKERS WHO AREN'T FOUR-YEAR EDUCATED, WHO AREN'T IN A SUPERVISORY ROLE AND THAT'S WHERE WE SEE THE STAGNATION OF WAGES ACROSS THE BOARD. IF YOU'RE AN AVERAGE WORKER, THAT TOP LINE IS TRACKING PRODUCTIVITY, BUT THE AVERAGE IS INCLUDING HIGHER EDUCATED WORKERS. OUR LOWER AND MODERATE EDUCATED WORKERS HAVE REALLY BEEN SUFFERING FROM STAGNANT WAGES FOR 40 YEARS. >> HAS YOUR TASK FORCE DECIDED WHAT WE NEED TO DO ABOUT THIS? >> WELL, WE CERTAINLY HAVE SUGGESTIONS. NO QUESTION, EVERYBODY IS FOCUSED ON WORK FORCE SKILLS AND TRAINING, WHAT WE NEED FOR EDUCATION AND PARTICULARLY THOSE WHO ARE MOST VULNERABLE, WHICH IS FROM HIGH SCHOOL TO SAY TWO YEAR DEGREES AND SO WE'RE VERY FOCUSED HOW DO WE TRAIN FOR THOSE JOBS, MEDIAN WORKERS AND WE THINK THERE'S A LOT FOR INVESTMENT. R AND D TAX CREDITS AND OTHER WAYS. WE NEED TO DO MORE FOR INVESTING IN HUMANS AND BUILDING OUR OWN CAPABILITIES. >> AND THE TECHNOLOGY IS REPLACING JOBS, TECHNOLOGY IS ALSO CREATING JOBS SO THE CHALLENGE, I ASSUME, IS HOW TO DRAIN PEOPLE FOR THOSE JOBS. >> THAT'S RIGHT, IT'S ALWAYS DONE THAT. WE'VE HAD BOTH OF THOSE. IT DOES OBVIOUSLY GET RID OF JOBS, BUT CREATES NEW JOBS. AND THE CHALLENGE FOR US IS NOT GOING TO BE WILL WE HAVE ENOUGH JOBS, THE CHALLENGE IS GOING TO BE, WHAT'S THE QUALITY OF THE JOBS.

How to prepare for an economy of robots & AI, and an aging population

Updated: 7:24 AM EST Feb 16, 2020

Fred Kocher and Elisabeth Reynolds speak about preparing for an economy of robots, AI, and an aging population.

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(Reuters) - The robot invasion slowed a bit last year.

FILE PHOTO: The aluminium cab of all-new 2015 F-150 pick-up truck moves down the robot assembly line at the Ford Rouge Center in Dearborn, Michigan, November 11, 2014. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook/File Photo/File Photo

U.S. companies installed fewer robots in 2019 than they did the year before, the first cut back since 2015, as a downturn in manufacturing fueled by trade wars and weaker demand dampened appetite for the machines.

Shipments fell to 23,758, a more than 16% drop, according to data seen by Reuters that was set for release on Tuesday by the Association for Advancing Automation, an industry group based in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Robot shipments also fell in Mexico last year, declining 25% to 3,263, while shipments in Canada roughly held steady at just over 3,000 units.

(GRAPHIC: Robot shipments slowed last year, here)

A major goal of President Donald Trump has been to drive manufacturers to bring work back to the United States, presumably aided by new automation and robotics that would allow domestic plants to compete with cheaper labor in China and other lower-cost countries. But that trend appears to have been overwhelmed by a larger slowdown in manufacturing.

Alexander Shikany, vice president of the Association for Advancing Automation, said the slowdown is likely to be short lived. Orders for new robots in North America, a separate measure that gives a sense of how many machines will be installed in future months, increased last year by 1.6% to 29,988 units, Shikany noted.

The largest driver of that growth was a more than 50% jump in orders from automakers, which Shikany said were making robots part of their investment in the next wave of automotive technology.

No. 1 U.S. automaker General Motors Co (GM.N), for example, recently announced it was investing $2.2 billion to build electric trucks and autonomous electric vehicles at its Detroit-area plant in Hamtramck, Michigan.

Hytrol Conveyor Co Inc, a privately held company in Jonesboro, Arkansas, that produces conveyor belts and had sales last year of over $200 million, did not cut back on robot installations in 2019. With demand from e-commerce businesses and other warehouse operations booming, the company spent $1.9 million last year to help automate its assembly line.

David Peacock, the companys president, said the company realized three years ago it would have trouble keeping up with demand growth without more robots.

The investments have not cut jobs. Headcount at Hytrol Conveyors factory has increased 18% over the past three years to 1,300 workers. Revenues, meanwhile, are up nearly a quarter.

Reporting by Timothy Aeppel; Editing by Tom Brown

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Even the robots are feeling romantic this week at Amazon, as the tech giant shows a little love for Valentines Day and employees who have made a human connection at work.

In a new video and blog post on Tuesday, Amazon promoted how associates across the globe have found their perfect partner while working in Amazon fulfillment centers, logistics facilities, and customer service centers.

An Amazon Scout delivery robot presents a card to an Amazon Robotics device that says, Will you be my Valentine? and the two machines go on a date. They dine on spaghetti and meatballs; they share popcorn at a movie; and they have a quiet moment overlooking a water view.

The Scout is a six-wheeled, cooler-sized, autonomous package delivery robot which first debuted during a test north of Seattle last year.

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Major Japanese trading house Mitsui & Co has teamed up with Thai state-backed oil firm PTT Public Co to launch a joint venture for artificial intelligence and robotics technologies in line with the Thai government's initiative to promote an innovation-based economy.

Mitsui's Thai arm, Mitsui & Co (Thailand), and PTT will establish an equally owned joint venture by February, according to Mitsui. The trading house declined to disclose details such as the name, capital or location of the new entity.

The joint venture will initially focus on developing a system integrator capability to help local Thai firms adopt artificial intelligence and robotics technologies in the industrial sector, said a PTT statement.

The "cooperation will be a mechanism that drive our country's economy by encouraging the industrial sector to use robotics and artificial intelligence in response to the government's Thailand 4.0 policy," Wittawat Svasti-xuto, chief technology and engineering officer at PTT, said in the statement.

"Therefore, the expansion of production will occur, leading to a growing robotics industry and widespread automation," Wittawat said.

The agreement is a milestone for PTT's new business investment strategy, addressing the changing era of digital transformation, he added.

The Thai government is calling for investment in the robotics and digital fields under its Thailand 4.0 drive to help develop innovation-based future industries.

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Back in August, we flagged a filing for you that we found interesting, one for a now 2.5-year-old, 40-person Redwood City, Calif.,-based startup called Bear Robotics thats been developing robots to deliver food to restaurant customers. The filing listed a $35.8 million target; Bear Robotics founder and CEO John Ha now tells us the final close, being announced today, was $32 million in Series A funding.

The round was led by SoftBank Group, whose other recent robotics bets include the currently beleaguered food truck company Zume and, as we reported yesterday, Berkshire Grey, a seven-year-old, Lexington, Mass.-based company that makes pick, pack and sorting robots for fulfillment centers and that just raised a whopping $263 million in Series B funding led by SoftBank.

Because we know youre interested in much more than Bear Robotics funding picture, we asked Ha a former Intel research scientist turned technical lead at Google who in recent years opened and closed his own restaurant to share more about the company and its robot servers.

TC: You were an engineer at Google. Why then start your own restaurant?

JH: Its not like I had a dream of having a restaurant; it was more of an investment. It sounded fun, but it didnt turn out to be fun. What I was really shocked by was how much hard work is involved and how low [employees] income is. I felt [as I was forced to close it] that this was going to be my lifes work to transform the restaurant industry with the skills I have. I wanted to remove the hard work and the repetitive tasks so that humans can focus on the truly human side, the hospitality. At restaurants, youre selling food and service, but most of your time is spent dealing with hiring people and people not showing up, and I suspect our product will change [the equation].

TC: How did you come up with the first idea or iteration of the robot youve created, that youre calling Penny?

JH: First, me and my restaurant staff constantly discussed, If we have this robot, what would it look like and what capacity and features would it need? I knew it couldnt be too big; robots have to be able to move well in narrow spaces. We also focused on the right capacity. And we didnt want to make a robotic restaurant. I wanted to build a robot that no one really cares about; its just in the background, sort of like R2-D2 to Luke Skywalker. Its a sidekick a bland robot with a weak personality to get things done for your master.

TC Lets talk parts. How are these things built?

JH: Its self-driving tech thats been adopted for indoor space, so it can safely navigate from Point A to Point B. A server puts the food on Penny, and it finds a way to get to the table. It has a two-wheel differential drive, plus casters. Its pretty safe. A lot of similar-looking robots have blind spots, but ours doesnt. It can detect baby hands on the floor even something as thin as a wallet thats fallen from someones table.

Were not using robot arms because its very difficult to make it 100% safe when you have arms in a crowded space. The material its going to be plastic is safe and easy to clean and able to work with the sanitizers and detergents used in restaurants. Weve also had to make sure the wheels wont accumulate food waste, because that would cause issues with the health department.

TC: So this isnt out in the world yet.

JH: We havent entered the mass-manufacturing phase yet.

TC: Where will these be built, and how will you charge for them?

JH: Theyll be made somewhere in Asia maybe China or some other country. And we havent figured out pricing yet but restaurants will be leasing these, not buying them, and there will be a monthly subscription fee that they are paying for a white-glove service, so they dont have to worry about maintenance or support.

TC: How customizable are these Penny robots going to be? Are there different tiers of service?

JH: Penny can be configured into several modes. The default is [for it to hold] three trays, so it can carry food to a table or a server can use it for busing help.

TC: Will it address the customers?

JH: Penny can speak and play sound, but its not conversational yet. It can say, Please take your food, or play music while its moving. Thats where customers may want to personalize the robot for their own purposes.

TC: Ultimately, the idea is for this to be sold where just restaurants?

JH: Wherever food is served, so its being tested right now in some restaurants, casinos, some homes. [Im sure well add] nursing homes, too.

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