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HAI ROBOTICS and Voyatzoglou System Join Forces to Offer Smart Warehousing Solutions in E. Europe - Brazosport Facts

(TNS) As with all the Ivy Tech Community College campuses throughout the state, Andersons also offers the Smart Manufacturing and Digital Integration coursework in an effort to support emerging needs of local manufacturers.

Christina Collins, executive director of Ivy Tech-Andersons Career Coaching Employer Connections, said the campuss first cohort of students already completed the coursework and earned certification during the fall semester.

We are building our course programming and updating our lab to be able to deliver the full SMDI pathway, she said. Based on industry demand, we are also growing our Advanced Automation and Robotics Technology program, which the SMDI certificate stacks to at the associate level.

Courses offered this spring include key principles of advanced manufacturing plus technology in advanced manufacturing, both of which are offered through traditional in-person classroom settings and online.

After decades of sending work overseas, Collins said, many companies now are nearshoring because of the COVID-19 pandemic and the well-documented supply chain and labor shortage issues it has caused.

Though some have expressed concerns about potential job availability shortages in manufacturing caused by automation, Collins said the situation often is the opposite. Smart manufacturing will allow for fewer employees who can maintain the supply chain.

Its actually growing at a higher rate than health care. It actually mans more opportunity.

Additionally, the certifications offered through the smart manufacturing program are not industry-specific and can be used nationwide, Collins said.

It allows our students to have a nationally recognized certification, regardless of which type of sector they are going into. Employers will know the level of competency our students have.

2022 The Herald Bulletin (Anderson, Ind.). Distributed by Tribune Content Agency, LLC.

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Ivy Tech-Anderson Expanding Advanced Automation and Robotics - GovTech

I have always been very interested in building objects and creating robots, but who isn't? Robots are the coolest. I've always thought they were great and wanted to work on them, but it took me a while to get to robotics.

I was very interested in the arts early on and in high school I was more focused on computer graphics and photography. But when I went to college I began to wonder how good at art I really was and whether it was perhaps more of a hobby, so I fell back on math. I then worked for three years as a data scientist for an insurance company. That is not exciting; there are no robots there!

At 25, I went back to school and studied computer science and robotics. It was what I had always wanted to do but it took me a while to realize that I could do it. It seems kind of daunting, like you must have to be a child prodigy at coding. That's not trueat least I hope it's not!

I built my first robot in graduate school, when I was in my late 20s. It was a soft robot made from rubber, which was something I was interested in during my PhD studies.

What makes a robot different from your laptop computer is that robots move themselves through the world like animals. Just like animals, robots can come in all matter of shapes and sizes, depending on what they are designed to do and what materials they are made of.

One of the characteristics of animals is that they are created from soft materials, but we normally build robots out of metal or plastics. Unfortunately, those aren't so great because eventually they break and become trash and pollution. I began to think about how we could make robots out of a material that is biodegradable and biocompatible. Perhaps it is naive, but a solution seems to be to build robots out of the same things animals are built out of, which is cells.

My colleagues and I at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University began thinking that there could be a lot of advantages to soft robots; perhaps they could interact better with humans and be safer? Or, maybe they could be more intelligent or perform certain tasks better because they could use soft materials like animals do? But soft robots can be difficult to design so we use AI and computers to help understand what they should look like.

Normally you have an objective for a robot: you want it to walk or clean your floor, for example. Then comes the questions of what to make it from, what it will look like and how it is going to perform the task. "What should my robot look like?" is a question that most of my work has been trying to address.

Building robots out of cells really arose spontaneously out of a collaboration. I knew we had Xenopus Laevis frogs in our biologist collaborator, Doug Blackiston's lab at University of Vermont, Tufts University. These eggs are used for all kinds of important developmental biology, and in 2018, Doug bet me we could build robots out of them, so I dove into it full time.

The two simplest to use were skin cells and heart muscle cells and the ethics behind it are really sound. You take one day old frog eggs but there's nothing in that egg, there aren't neurons in there and it can't feel pain. A lot of times they are thrown away before they develop into anything. Doug developed all the biology methods to build robots out of cells, which are simple enough that I can follow them without previous biology training, and we then asked how we could get this robot to do what we wanted it to do.

That's where an AI comes into this, it's like a collaborator and design tool. It offers up all these different ways to put these cells together to create a robot that does what you want; walking, for example. It's very much like using Lego blocks, but the Legos are cells and tissues.

The computer puts the cells together in random ways and determines which of these configurations does more or less of what we want the robot to do. As you can imagine, a random conglomeration of cells is probably not going to do what you want. Some won't move at all, but some might fall down, which is a little closer to walking or moving along. The computer takes those good designs, modifies them and deletes the bad designs.

Once we showed that we could design living robotswhich we have called Xenobotsto behave in specific ways, we were then able to observe that they can do all these amazing things that it's not so easy for regular robots to do.

The Xenobots can self-heal, which is amazing from a robotics standpointthough maybe not so surprising to a biologist, because we all self heal. You can cut this robot almost in half and it just zippers up and starts moving as it was before. No other robot can do that. Some of these behaviors that seem obvious to biologists become really amazing ideas and perspectives to roboticists.

But the way the Xenobots reproduce was surprising to both roboticists and biologists. Every single organism on the planet that we know of, reproduces either sexually or asexually. Reproduction involves parents or a parent organism giving part of itself, and from that small part, or parts, a baby or offspring grows.

We saw there was something really amazing that Xenobots could do. If we sprinkle loose stem cells in their dish Xenobots will move around in the dish, pushing those cells together into piles that develop into more Xenobots. They are able to reproduce in an entirely different waythis was more like Xenobots building other Xenobots.

When we gave their children more cells to build with, they sometimes produced grandchildren. But then reproduction stopped. So, we wanted to see if it could last longer.

We asked our computer what we could do to amplify the reproduction and make it last longer, and the most successful alteration was changing the shape of the parent Xenobots. You can carve them into any shape you want, even a little dog! But after weeks of trying different shapes, it gave us a very simple design that looks like Pac-Man. This Xenobot has a "mouth" carved out and moves around, and because of that, it traps cells in there and is better at being a snowplow; pushing cells into larger piles. These larger piles are more likely to develop into offspring and this process of self-replication lasts longer.

In 2020, we had discovered we could build robots out of cells and started to see early evidence of this self-replication. But it took a while to make sure it wasn't just chance and to prove that Xenobots really were really building other Xenobots, so we didn't release our findings until the end of 2021.

It's much simpler than most people realize, and it's probably important to emphasize that. A Xenobot is not the most complicated and useful robot, there's a lot it cannot do and there are lots of conditions that have to be perfect. However, roboticists all recognize that this is a robot and a kind of self-reproduction. It's not a robot dancing on the internet or doing construction outside, it's very limited, but our description is accurate.

People ask if the Xenobots are going to take over the world? We are very confident that this technology is safe because they can't reproduce unless they're in a petri dish and we keep giving them more cells to build with. Even if we do that, the self-replication stops after about five rounds. And even that took months; it was a lot of effort and there are still humans in the loop. It's also extremely safe because it's just frog skin cells. Frogs shed their skin all the time in lakes and streams and we don't really care about that. This is contained within a lab and there are very strict policies here. But, I think it's healthy for people to be skeptical of this kind of science and about technologies getting out of control. I also understand there is something about it that might bother people; it's a robot made of frog skin. But I think if you dig a little deeper, you can see how simple it is and how much potential good it can do.

We've only been building robots made entirely out of living cells for three years now, but in many ways they are already much better than robots we've been making since the 1940s. These are self-healing, biodegrading and self-replicating robots.

Right now, Xenobots have to be in an aquatic environment. So, if they're going to be useful robots they will probably have underwater applications. Maybe they will end up cleaning up lakes, streams and oceans, because there are many small contaminants in waterways that are difficult to see. We know the Xenobots are very good at making piles, and they are also self powered. They come pre-loaded with fat and protein that they burn. They live off that energy for about two weeks and then they biodegrade.

Science isn't easy, most experiments do not work out as expected. You fail 100 times in a row, then the 101st experiment goes really well and the world may take notice, which happens sometimes and that's amazing. It's really rewarding. At first it's overwhelming, but of course I'm very thankful for all this support and interest. A lot of science research goes without any recognition, which is sad.

My hope is that this is exciting for people. In particular, we've seen young people getting extremely excited about Xenobots. I get dozens of emails every month from students aged from middle school through to undergraduate and I'm very passionate about getting the next generation involved in this work. We have been creating soft robot kits for the classroom and more recently we've been trying to do the same with the Xenobots. We hope to make a really simple kit so that many people can see first hand that this is not something to be worried about because they built one in their biology class.

There's a lot you can learn from this, and who knows what the next generation will do with it. Probably way more than I can imagine now.

Sam Kriegman PhD is a computer scientist with a joint postdoctoral appointment at the Wyss Institute at Harvard and the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts. His work on Xenobots has been developed with senior scientist Doug Blackiston PhD. You can follow Sam on Twitter @Kriegmerica.

All views expressed in this article are the author's own.

As told to Jenny Haward.

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'We Created Living Robots That Self-Replicate' - Newsweek

The longstanding relationship between art and technology has evolved in the last few decades to the point where many artists today are making groundbreaking work using robots and artificial intelligence. Where the crossover field of art and robotics was once somewhat of a tech art niche, the capacity for artists to harness technology means that the field is expanding to a broader number of players.

Within the realm of robotic art, one of the early pioneers was Nam June Paik, who used radios and television monitors to create his Bakelite Robot (2002), a humanoid sculpture made from nine vintage Bakelite radios. Among other early proponents are Angela Bulloch, who began her ongoing Drawing Machine series in 1990, and Michael Landy, who developed moving sculptures described as robotic saints for an exhibition at Londons National Gallery in 2013.

Today, more artists are experimenting with bespoke technology to make installations and sculptures. Indeed, Anicka Yis current installation for the Hyundai Commission at Tate Modern, In Love With The World, involves machines based on ocean-life forms and mushrooms, which the artist calls aerobes, floating around the museums Turbine Hall.

We spoke to five artists using robots in their work to give us an idea of how it works, the costs involved, and their top tips for others hoping to experiment with technology.

ORLAN, ORLANode (2018), installation in the Artists & Robots exhibition at the Grand Palais in Paris.

Who: The French multi-media artist ORLAN, famous for filming her surgery-performances in 19901993, has forged her career by making avant-garde works that interrogate the body. Ive always been interested in innovation and societal phenomena, and as soon as I heard about artificial intelligence, I looked into it, asking myself how I could say something important and in what way, she said. It was important for me to conceive a sculpture in my image, and that this moving, animated body could talk. To find the budget, I needed to find a well-known infrastructure to invite me to create an artwork.

Referring to Luc Julia, author of There is no such thing as Artificial Intelligence, ORLAN added. For me, artificial intelligence doesnt exist, at least not yet; one could rather talk about augmented intelligence or auxiliary intelligence.

What: In 2018, ORLAN was commissioned by Laurence Bertrand Dorlac and Jrme Neutres, curators of the exhibition Artists & Robots at the Grand Palais in Paris, to create ORLANode,a self-resembling robotic sculpture programmed to speak with her voice. I recorded 22,000 words that we put into separate MP3 players, ORLAN said about ORLANode, which spoke and interacted with video images from her performances.

To make ORLANode, ORLAN collaborated with the French fabrication company Animatronix and with Nicolas Gaudelet from Voxels Productions. Following the exhibition, ORLANode has been to Science Gallery Dublin, part of Trinity College Dublin, whose experts installed new features. ORLANode is now capable of translating live everything I say into English. I could therefore take it with me as my translator whenever I go to give a conference, ORLAN said. Id welcome other AI experts giving ORLANode further competences.

Cost: ORLANode cost more than 140,000 ($158,000) to make. There were people who worked [pro bono] as well as my interns and technicians at the Grand Palais, ORLAN said.

Top Tip: An artist shouldnt make a robot just to make a robot and be on trend, ORLAN said. Its about inventing something singular, not just researching the best technology, but developing a position and discourse on this technological phenomenon of society.

Ai-Da. Image Courtesy Aiden Mellar.

Who: Aidan Meller is a gallery director based in Oxford who has worked with the estates of Camille Pissarro, Pablo Picasso and Marc Chagall. Branching out from the historical western canon, he created Ai-Da, a humanoid, robotic artist with artificial intelligence in 2019. Meller collaborated on the project with Engineered Arts in Cornwall as well as PhD students from Oxford, Birmingham and Leeds, bringing together an international team of more than 30 people.

What: Meller commissioned bespoke algorithms to enable Ai-Da to draw, paint, write, speak and see; Ai-Da can draw thanks to having cameras in her eyes and a robotic arm. Two years ago, Ai-Da had a solo show, Unsecured Futures, at the Barn Gallery at the University of Oxford. Other exhibitions include Londons Design Museum earlier this year, where Ai-Da made a self-portrait using mirrors. The Design Museum hailed her as the worlds first convincing humanoid robot capable of creating artworks.

Cost: Meller said he was unable to provide information on the cost of the project due to non-disclosure agreements made with the companies that he collaborated with.

Top Tip: Meller encourages more artists to get involved in the remarkable area of artificial intelligence. For a cross-disciplinary project to be successful, communication is key, he said. Meller is emphatic about the need to consider the impact of technology. Philosophical and ethical questions are so important, he insisted. As Ai-Da was detained when entering Egypt recently, we know technology is feared. Its very wise to question it so that we have a safer world.

Sougwen Chung, Exquisite Corpus (2019).

Who: Sougwen Chung is a 36-year-old Chinese-born, Canadian-raised artist based in New York. A former research fellow at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, she began programming and building robots named D.O.U.G. (Drawing Operations Unit Generation) in 2014. Together they have produced drawings and paintings in performances with the robots mimicking her gestures. In 2016, she won the Excellence Award at the Japan Media Arts Festival for her work. Last year, she live-streamed a robot collaboration to Srlandets Kunstmuseum in Norway, where it was exhibited as a video installation. And in October, she presented abstract paintings, sculpture, video and performance made in collaboration with robots during her exhibition Entangled Origins with Gillian Jason Gallery at Asia House in London. Developing new approaches to embodiment, memory and improvisation is what excites me about technology, she said.

What: Chung works with biosensors from Open BCI and Muse, and VR headsets such as Oculus and Vive, among other technologies. Were developing bio-inspired robots that can embody human traits, focus on collaboration, co-creation and care, and steward natural ecosystems with regenerative power sources, she said. Chung was invited by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation in Athens to perform the first phase of her multi-robotic system linking to bio feedback and satellite data at the Greek National Opera last August. Chung is also exploring links between machines and ecology in her project Floral Rearing Agricultural Network.

Cost: Chung writes bespoke software using a variety of robotic arms from Ufactory (which cost $10,999.00$11,999.00) and Kuka.

Top Tip: Start with a ritual, task or practice that means something to you like mark-making, dance, sculpting, or singing and try to find ways to invigorate that existing practice with robotic development, Chung said. Most of these technologies are designed for automated tasks but really beautiful and strange things can happen when you approach it like a human-machine duet. You need to let go of control and trust the process. However, the artist warned: Robots dont always do as theyre told.

Patrick Tresset, Human Study #1 (2011).

Who: Patrick Tresset is a Brussels-based artist with an MPhil in Arts and Computational Technologies from Goldsmiths College in London. He participated in the group exhibition Artists & Robots at the Grand Palais in Paris in 2018, and has shown his work at the Haus Der Kunst in Munich and Mori Museum in Tokyo, among other venues. He integrated robots into his practice in 2010 after becoming fascinated with new technologies. Tresset creates robots for his performative installations where robots take on the role of actors. For instance, in Human Study #1 (2011), based on a life-drawing class, several robots have sheets of paper on their desks and are tasked with sketching the human being sitting in front of them. The robots produce the drawings live, prompted by an assistant who twists their arm so they start drawing.

What: Tresset buys components, such as motors, from the Korean company Robotis, which enables him to create bespoke robots. The most complicated thing is writing the software, which I develop myself, he said.

Cost: Components from Robotis cost 50600 ($56$678). Costs to make a large installation with 20 robots can reach 20,000 ($22,600).

Top Tip: Be patient, focused and dont reinvent the wheel, Tresset said. Using robots takes a lot of time, far more than just developing software. Technical complications can arise, so testing and preparation is required. The first time that I exhibited robots in an art fair, they didnt work for the private view, Tresset recalled. However, the advantage is clear: Robots are always well received by audiences worldwide.

So Kanno, Lasermice Dyad installation (2021). Art Laboratory Berlin. Photo by Masashi Kuroha.

Who: Born in Japan in 1984, So Kanno has been based in Berlin since 2013. He began making digital art in the late 2000s and started developing robots six years ago when he recognized the potential for creative expression using sensors, motors, displays and speakers. After initially making interactive pieces, his interest shifted to generative and autonomous systems. His latest pieces are based on a swarm robotics system inspired by the synchronous behavior of insects like fireflies. At the group exhibition Swarms, Robots and Post-nature at Art Laboratory Berlin this year, he presented the installationLasermice Dyad (2021), involving several dozen small furry robotic creatures powered by electromagnets whose movements were illuminated by laser lights.

What: Kanno designed the robots himself after consulting the open-source platform Arduino and used Seeed Studio to produce the printed circuit boards (PCBs). I would love to collaborate with companies that produce social robots or toy robots, he said. Creating a mechanism such as an algorithm, and controlling its behavior by adjusting its parameters, is a unique experience.

Cost: The material cost of the 130 original boards produced for Lasermice Dyadwas around $7,000. The total material cost, including materials such as motors, lasers and printed plastic, was about $22,700, prior to developing costs.

Top Tip: Buy more components than necessary in case some of them stop working and cannot be replaced. Maintenance is a challenge and its often difficult to get the same parts a few years later, Kanno advised.

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5 Artists Who Work Extensively With Robotics Offer Tips on How to Do It (and Reveal How Much It Costs) - artnet News

It is the first time that JD.com has opened a physical retail store in Europe.

With the rich experience in retail and cutting-edge logistics technologies that we have accumulated over the years, we aspire to create an unprecedented shopping format for customers in Europe with better price and service, says Pass Lei, General Manager at ochama, JD Worldwide.

Shoppers can order via ochama's mobile app, where a range of A-brand products are offered, covering the likes of fresh and packaged food, household appliances, beauty, maternal and child products, fashion, and home furnishings.

An automated warehouse includes AGV (automated ground vehicles), robotic arms etc that engage in picking, sorting, and transferring merchandise.

By scanning the app's QR code atcheck-out, shoppers can watch as their orders are carried to them on a conveyer belt.

Ochama's Chief Operation Officer Mark den Butter notes that by tapping logistics and supply chain management technologies, the stores can bring down product prices by an extra 10%.

People can also visit a showroom to experience ochama's product assortments, or they can choose a next-day home delivery service without going to a store.

Dutch people are passionate for innovation and a green environment, and ochama's shopping format is designed to contribute to both aspects, says den Butter.

There will be no queue and fewer traffic jams to do the chores as they can go for convenience, benefits and everything in one stop at ochama.

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The field Tipping Point is played on at Brooke High School. (Photo Provided)Jackson Simmons, 15, practices driving the robot at Parkersburg High School. (Photo Provided)Two alliances are shown competing with their robots at Tipping Point at Brooke High School. (Photo Provided)The Parkersburg High School Robotics team is shown after winning first and second place in the Dec. 11 robotics competition at Brooke High School. From left to right, Logan Miller, 15; Bradley Leonard, 18; Jackson Simmons, 15; Jace Cox, 14; Logan Richard, 14; Paidin Evans, 15; and Peyton Snider, 14. (Photo Provided)

The Parkersburg High School Robotics team is shown after winning first and second place in the Dec. 11 robotics competition at Brooke High School. From left to right, Logan Miller, 15; Bradley Leonard, 18; Jackson Simmons, 15; Jace Cox, 14; Logan Richard, 14; Paidin Evans, 15; and Peyton Snider, 14. (Photo Provided)

PARKERSBURG The Parkersburg High School VEX Robotics team won first and second place in their first ever competition at Brooke High School on Dec. 11.

The students competed in a game called Tipping Point, which is played over two minutes on a 12-by-12-foot field. Students use remote-controlled robots that they spend their spare time designing, building and coding.

Two alliances that are each composed of two separate teams, go head to head in this game mode. The goal is to collect more points than the opposing alliance by scoring rings, moving mobile goals and elevating on balanced platforms at the end of the match. There are 72 rings that can be scored and seven mobile goals that can be moved to different alliance zones for points. Tipping Point can also be played in skills challenges, where one team competes against the clock.

They did a fabulous job, said Steve Reiner, robotics program teacher at PHS.

One Parkersburg team is comprised of upperclassmen and the other freshmen, though they all work together on their robots and preparing for events. They took first and second place in the competition, and received three out of the five awards available. They also earned a spot in the 2021-22 West Virginia State Championships on March 12 at the Fairmont State University Falcon Center.

Jackson Simmons, 15, practices driving the robot at Parkersburg High School. (Photo Provided)

So were really excited to have that opportunity to have the kids interested in wanting to compete, said Reiner. As advisers, we dont tell them how to build a robot; were just here for guidance and support, but they do the rest of it. Its all of their hard work and dedication that theyve put in over the countless hours that they do after school.

Bobbi Gelpi, a math teacher at PHS, also supports the team.

I usually see someone in the morning before school starts, she said. They come up for sixth period lunch, and they spend their entire lunch period every day five days a week working. And theyll stay after school for as many nights as well stay with them.

She said they dont normally leave the school until after 5:30 p.m..

Sophomore Logan Miller said the team has put more than 200 hours into one of two robots and is working on building the fourth variation to get ready for states.

Two alliances are shown competing with their robots at Tipping Point at Brooke High School. (Photo Provided)

Were constantly working on it and upgrading, redesigning it, making sure everything is good to go for another competition, he said.

Reiner said the robots are designed from the ground up and must meet the regulations manual the VEX robotics competition team creates every year.

The team recounted an intense moment had during the competition at Brooke High School. Team captain Bradley Leonard had to fix one of the bots in between rounds and cut his hand in the process.

One of the bots broke down, when the motor died, and I was carrying part of the bot with my hand bleeding while taking it apart, said Leonard, a senior. I only had like five minutes to put it together, and I tore it off and put it back on while my hand was bleeding.

Miller said they were running across the gymnasium for parts, tools and motors in order to fix the bot in time for the next round.

The field Tipping Point is played on at Brooke High School. (Photo Provided)

Miller said the team feels nervous after winning its first competition.

Motivation is high, but this next competition were going to go and come out with our heads up high, because even though weve gotten into states already, we can take more from it with practice and experience, he said.

Freshman Paidin Evans said the competition was incredibly nerve-wracking and scary, but he feels more confident after the win.

Now that we know that we can do good, we know we can do better, and know that someday we could take robotics in college, he said.

Their next robotics competition is at PHS on Jan. 29.

People who would like to support the team or volunteer to help can call 304-420-9595 and ask for Gelpi.

James Dobbs can be reached at jdobbs@newsandsentinel.com

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Among credits (several in realpolitik) the Chinese deserve, is self-actualization of both aspiration and achievement. Never mind reliability or efficacy. In recent days the Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) has deployed machine gun carrying robots to the functioning border with India.

Its conscripted troops dithered on the Line of Actual Control (LAC); its lethal robotics will not. The Sharp Claws and The Mule 200s are operable wirelessly.

Of The Mule 200s, 120 have been stationed for supplies to the 38 combatant Sharp Claw. Beyond topicality and its implications, theres nothing unique about this. Major militaries are harnessing robotics.

The most obvious aspect is the go on endlessly without rest, replenishment, or human casualty aspect. Self-evident, minor issues of re-charging, re-fuelling notwithstanding. Wuhan Virus was a threshold crossed and mainstreamed in world discourse.

As its novelty wears off and the world resigns to smokescreens of denial and shift, non-conventional war-craft will gain wider currency. Not in the mainstream yet, but it will nibble fast at the fringes. Already is.

The vanguard is robotic warfare buttressed by AI and cyberspace. Robot soldiers: agnostic to biological, chemical, radioactive environments. In the air, they can flip and flick high G turns which would render a human pilot useless.

Under potential command, unmanned systems fly faster, turn harder. Robotic sailors have proven mettle in sea-state six which sees the roughest possible seas with waves at 20 + feet. And then, the whole aspect of digital speed and quicker learning curves with scrambled intelligence.

All of this is immensely scalable, can be improvised rapidly, is immune to honey traps or subversion. Technology has made reasonably affordable robots useful, deployable, expendable. From armies and battle-cries to suicide bombers, the robotic soldier is infallible.

An argument, which I would like to believe and hold dear, but cannot, is that human beings are special. Robotics and AI are eager to disprove this. Howsoever, remarkable you and I may be, howsoever distinct, we are nothing but a bunch of arranged atoms.

We and our brains are physical entities, obeying physical laws. For all, thats remarkable about us and for all that wed like to believe, from creations point of view, we are nothing special.

Much of our decisions are not led by explicit or rigorous reasoning. Many of our decisions do not pass muster on articulate reasoning. AI can learn from experience and make effective reasoning.

Perhaps beyond our time, there will be machines with a human-level theory of mind. And there will be soldier machines. The Robotic Soldier heralds this fantastic future throw. The Chinese offensives with quibbling robotic soldiers will be a sardonic example of robotic war genesis.

From a human view, there are seven basic plots for all stories in existence. I see the rise of robots spawned and led by AI as the plot of slaying the beast. In the rise of robotic marches, the beast has been an abstract mathematical theory of computational complexity. It posed the terribly hard-to-solve problems of AI.

The plot of the quest would also work since it has been akin to medieval knights searching for the Holy Grail. Well, here it is. Faster than we thought. Growing bigger than we imagined. The PLAs tinkers on the Line of Actual Control are mere pegs and lead-ins to a changing military ecosystem.

In Prague during the 1600s the head rabbi created the Golem a magical being intended to protect the citys Jewish population from anti-Semitic attacks. From Alan Turings musing in the 1950s. Can machines think? To the emerging answer of they can and with increasing complexity, the Robotic Warrior is on the horizon. It doesnt care for any Golem.

War has evolved much faster than we thought and its applications have evolved faster. The smart, gallant, valiant flesh and blood soldier will yield flesh to smart material and smarter non-human soldiers who dont care for medals, badges, or mentions in dispatches.

Or for that matter the honor codes of soldiers. Without quarters, asked or given, the Robotic Soldier will epitomize the dehumanization of humanity and the ascendance of cold hard insensate result machines. Dystopia as battlefield reality.

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Market Dynamics

The market is driven by factors such as the growing demand for robotic automation processes, increasing adoption of robotics in diverse application fields, and rising use of IoT in robots for cost-effective predictive maintenance.

44% of the market's growth will originate from APAC during the forecast period. China, Japan, and South Korea (Republic of Korea) are the key markets forservice robotics in APAC.

The report offers an up-to-date analysis of the geographical composition of the market.APAChas been recording a significant growth rateand is expected tooffer several growth opportunities to market vendors during the forecast period. The increasing adoption of robotics in diverse fields of applicationwill facilitate theservice robotics market growth in APAC over the forecast period.The report offers an up-to-date analysis of the geographical composition of the market,competitive intelligence, and regional opportunities in store for vendors.

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Company Profiles

The service robotics market report includes information on the product launches, sustainability, and prospects of leading vendors including CYBERDYNE Inc., Daifuku Co. Ltd., DeLaval International AB, Exyn Technologies, Intuitive Surgical Inc., Irobot Corp., Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, Northrop Grumman Corp., SoftBank Robotics Group Corp., and SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd.

Competitive Analysis

The report includes the competitive analysis, a proprietary tool to analyze and evaluate the position of companies based on their industry position score and market performance score. The tool uses various factors for categorizing the players into four categories. Some of these factors considered for analysis are financial performance over the last 3 years, growth strategies, innovation score, new product launches, investments, growth in market share, etc.

Market Segmentation

The service robotics market share growth by the professional robots segment has been significant. Through these insights,you can safely deduce transformation patterns in consumer behavior,which is crucial to gauge segment-wise revenue growth during 2021-2025andembrace technologies to improve business efficiency. This report provides an accurate prediction of the contribution of all the segments to the growth of the service robotics market size.

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Service Robotics Market Scope

Report Coverage

Details

Page number

120

Base year

2020

Forecast period

2021-2025

Growth momentum & CAGR

Accelerate at a CAGR of 22.58%

Market growth 2021-2025

$ 35.27 billion

Market structure

Fragmented

YoY growth (%)

16.23

Regional analysis

APAC, Europe, North America, MEA, and South America

Performing market contribution

APAC at 44%

Key consumer countries

China, US, Japan, Germany, and South Korea (Republic of Korea)

Competitive landscape

Leading companies, competitive strategies, consumer engagement scope

Companies profiled

CYBERDYNE Inc., Daifuku Co. Ltd., DeLaval International AB, Exyn Technologies, Intuitive Surgical Inc., Irobot Corp., Kongsberg Gruppen ASA, Northrop Grumman Corp., SoftBank Robotics Group Corp., and SZ DJI Technology Co. Ltd.

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The Ministry of Digital Economy and Society (DES) is confident that there will be no further delay in the total enforcement of the Personal Data Protection Act (PDPA), which is scheduled to take place on 1 June 2022, while the Personal Data Protection Committee is expected to be finalised this month.

The Deputy Permanent Secretary for the DES and Secretary-General of the Office of Personal Data Protection Committee stated that the DES does not see any major reasons to postpone the full enforcement of the PDPA following two years of delay due to the pandemic, apart from some legal technical problems, though the chance of this remains minimal.

The DES Ministry is aware that the PDPA may cause some burden for related parties in terms of compliance but the ministry is trying to ensure the impact will be minimal with better personal data protection. The law will create transparency and accountability for personal data handling.

The DES Ministry considers data as a key element for the countrys development strategy while businesses are capitalising on data to create revenue. The DES will make sure the PDPA will not become an obstacle for businesses.

Over the past two years of the PDPAs postponement, the DES Ministry has been drafting 29 regulations aligned with the PDPA, including 10 treated as a priority. By the end of this month, the Personal Data Protection Committee is expected to be established, he said.

The list of members of the committee is expected to be published later this month following cabinet approval. The committee will be responsible for considering all related regulations linked to the PDPA.

The 10 regulations include consent format for personal data usage, the process of data usage and data protection measurements. There will also be personal data protection guidelines for personal data controllers and personal data processors in seven sectors, covering healthcare, retail and e-commerce, education, logistics, travel, property and asset management as well as state agencies and administration.

A public hearing of up to 4,000 stakeholders on the issue has been conducted. In terms of penalties, there could be a reprieve in some groups, such as those with personal data of less than 100 people, but this needs to be considered by the new committee.

Once the committee is established, there must be a clear practice on how people can lodge a complaint with the PDPA office when their data is misused. Organisations handling personal data are obliged to report leaked data within 72 hours and inform data owners.

The organisations responsible for data leakage could face a fine by the PDPA office and a civil suit filed by those affected. The PDPA will require minimum security measures to protect personal data.

Under the PDPA, data protection officers must be appointed by organisations as contact persons with authority and they are obliged to contact the authorities within a stipulated time when the incident occurs. Consumers will have more confidence in using services while small businesses with small records of personal data would get a reprieve, he added.

In November 2021, National Digital Economics and Society Committee approved plans to develop a platform that supports compliance with the Personal Data Protection Act. The platform will also make government services available online for Thai digital start-ups.

Thailands Prime Minister stated the new government platform will help ease the overall financial burden on the state sector. It will also make online transactions more secure and bolster the development of a digital economy.

The implementation will be divided into two phases. The first phase will take 18 months and will focus on the development and promotion of the platform. Training will also be provided to 2,000 personnel from 200 government agencies. The second phase will promote and evaluate the use of the platform in the private sector, the PM stated.

The committee has also agreed to task the Digital Economy Promotion Agency with setting up a digital service account registration system for digital start-ups and providers. The digital service accounts will be linked with state mechanisms, such as tax policies, to broaden services provided to Thai digital entrepreneurs.

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Social Robots Market Research Report by Component (Actuator, Control System, and Hardware), by End-User (Education, Entertainment, and Healthcare), by Region (Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa) - Global Forecast to 2027 - Cumulative Impact of COVID-19

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The Global Social Robots Market size was estimated at USD 407.22 million in 2020 and expected to reach USD 468.49 million in 2021, at a CAGR 15.41% to reach USD 1,110.69 million by 2027.

Market Statistics:The report provides market sizing and forecast across five major currencies - USD, EUR GBP, JPY, and AUD. It helps organization leaders make better decisions when currency exchange data is readily available. In this report, the years 2018 and 2019 are considered historical years, 2020 as the base year, 2021 as the estimated year, and years from 2022 to 2027 are considered the forecast period.

Market Segmentation & Coverage:This research report categorizes the Social Robots to forecast the revenues and analyze the trends in each of the following sub-markets:

Based on Component, the market was studied across Actuator, Control System, Hardware, Sensor, and Software.

Based on End-User, the market was studied across Education, Entertainment, Healthcare, and Retail.

Based on Region, the market was studied across Americas, Asia-Pacific, and Europe, Middle East & Africa. The Americas is further studied across Argentina, Brazil, Canada, Mexico, and United States. The United States is further studied across California, Florida, Illinois, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Texas. The Asia-Pacific is further studied across Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. The Europe, Middle East & Africa is further studied across France, Germany, Italy, Netherlands, Qatar, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, Spain, United Arab Emirates, and United Kingdom.

Cumulative Impact of COVID-19:COVID-19 is an incomparable global public health emergency that has affected almost every industry, and the long-term effects are projected to impact the industry growth during the forecast period. Our ongoing research amplifies our research framework to ensure the inclusion of underlying COVID-19 issues and potential paths forward. The report delivers insights on COVID-19 considering the changes in consumer behavior and demand, purchasing patterns, re-routing of the supply chain, dynamics of current market forces, and the significant interventions of governments. The updated study provides insights, analysis, estimations, and forecasts, considering the COVID-19 impact on the market.

Competitive Strategic Window:The Competitive Strategic Window analyses the competitive landscape in terms of markets, applications, and geographies to help the vendor define an alignment or fit between their capabilities and opportunities for future growth prospects. It describes the optimal or favorable fit for the vendors to adopt successive merger and acquisition strategies, geography expansion, research & development, and new product introduction strategies to execute further business expansion and growth during a forecast period.

FPNV Positioning Matrix:The FPNV Positioning Matrix evaluates and categorizes the vendors in the Social Robots Market based on Business Strategy (Business Growth, Industry Coverage, Financial Viability, and Channel Support) and Product Satisfaction (Value for Money, Ease of Use, Product Features, and Customer Support) that aids businesses in better decision making and understanding the competitive landscape.

Market Share Analysis:The Market Share Analysis offers the analysis of vendors considering their contribution to the overall market. It provides the idea of its revenue generation into the overall market compared to other vendors in the space. It provides insights into how vendors are performing in terms of revenue generation and customer base compared to others. Knowing market share offers an idea of the size and competitiveness of the vendors for the base year. It reveals the market characteristics in terms of accumulation, fragmentation, dominance, and amalgamation traits.

Competitive Scenario:The Competitive Scenario provides an outlook analysis of the various business growth strategies adopted by the vendors. The news covered in this section deliver valuable thoughts at the different stage while keeping up-to-date with the business and engage stakeholders in the economic debate. The competitive scenario represents press releases or news of the companies categorized into Merger & Acquisition, Agreement, Collaboration, & Partnership, New Product Launch & Enhancement, Investment & Funding, and Award, Recognition, & Expansion. All the news collected help vendor to understand the gaps in the marketplace and competitors strength and weakness thereby, providing insights to enhance product and service.

Company Usability Profiles:The report profoundly explores the recent significant developments by the leading vendors and innovation profiles in the Global Social Robots Market, including Alphabet Inc., Amy Robotics Co. Ltd, AoBo Information Technology Co. Ltd, Blue Frog Robotics, Dassault Systmes, DFRobot, Furhat Robotics, Hanson Robotics, Hitachi, Ltd., International Business Machines Corporation, Intuition Robotics, Knightscope, Inc, MoviaRobotics Inc., OhmniLabs Inc., PAL Robotics SL, Reach Robotics, Savioke Inc., SoftBank Group Corp., Uber Technologies, Inc., and UBTECH Robotics, Inc..

The report provides insights on the following pointers:1. Market Penetration: Provides comprehensive information on the market offered by the key players2. Market Development: Provides in-depth information about lucrative emerging markets and analyze penetration across mature segments of the markets3. Market Diversification: Provides detailed information about new product launches, untapped geographies, recent developments, and investments4. Competitive Assessment & Intelligence: Provides an exhaustive assessment of market shares, strategies, products, certification, regulatory approvals, patent landscape, and manufacturing capabilities of the leading players5. Product Development & Innovation: Provides intelligent insights on future technologies, R&D activities, and breakthrough product developments

The report answers questions such as:1. What is the market size and forecast of the Global Social Robots Market?2. What are the inhibiting factors and impact of COVID-19 shaping the Global Social Robots Market during the forecast period?3. Which are the products/segments/applications/areas to invest in over the forecast period in the Global Social Robots Market?4. What is the competitive strategic window for opportunities in the Global Social Robots Market?5. What are the technology trends and regulatory frameworks in the Global Social Robots Market?6. What is the market share of the leading vendors in the Global Social Robots Market?7. What modes and strategic moves are considered suitable for entering the Global Social Robots Market?Read the full report: https://www.reportlinker.com/p06203787/?utm_source=GNW

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