Sentences with phrase «ai robotics company»

She is a robot designed by Hong Kong - based AI robotics company Hanson Robotics.

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Alex Fielding, the founder of the $ 250 million robotics company Ripcord, is stepping aside as CEO in the wake of an investigation into a 19 - year - old former employee's allegations that she was fired after complaining of a toxic work environment.

The CEO pointed out that none of the four biggest robotics manufacturers are American companies — two are based in Japan, one in Germany, and one in Sweden.

The authors recommend that technologists and healthcare robotic companies marketing their wares be more transparent about what their robots can and can't do, and properly educate medical workers on how to use them.

As you look across the robotics landscape, there are a number of notable names that may come to mind, from the «cute» robots that consumer electronics companies roll out for the holidays to the big acquisitions being made by Silicon Valley companies, including Google.

If you really want to understand where robotics is heading, the following three themes — and the companies working on them, which generally are not well known outside their niches — can serve as a good introduction to the broader applications of this industry that are still yet to come.

Robotic process automation will free companies to change how day - to - day tasks are performed and, in the process, the fundamental way employees work.

There are already signs that Alphabet is reining in various projects, including reports that it is selling its Boston Dynamics robotics group, and the recent move to merge two separate drone efforts within the company.

By 2020 the government wants more than 50 percent of the total robotics sales volume to be filled by robots made in China by Chinese companies.

Consider what Guangdong, just one Chinese province, is doing: offering almost $ 140 billion in subsidies to about 2,000 local companies, including robotics firms.

While Yang admits this is a sign of a shift from quantity and toward quality, he also said that Chinese robotics companies «can't buy their way into industry leadership.

More companies are creating robotics for consumer use.

The company's statements tend to be scripted, so «he risks coming off robotic.»

Noteworthy tech startups include Gnip, which was one of few companies given access to Twitter's massive data streams, Orbotix, an $ 11 million - funded robotics mobile device innovator, and SendGrid, a cloud - based email infrastructure that has delivered 58 billion emails to date.

«They are at the leading edge of robotics in their plants, and they ensure that the company stays on the leading edge productivity-wise.

Tony Hsieh was the mastermind behind an incredible shaping of culture, turning what could have been one of the dullest and most robotic of companies into a shining example of employee engagement and customer service.

«Too many companies are still focused on treating people in robotic ways, looking only at the bottom line,» says Burke.

Schoolcraft wanted customers to know the company was being run by flesh - and - blood humans, not a robotic committee.

By the summer of 2008, Brooks was raising money for his new robotics company.

(His wife, Carol Reiley, is the company's former president and also sits on the board; they met at a robotics conference.)

«I think investors really do want to get exposure to A.I. and robotics companies, as these markets are growing exponentially,» she said.

Berlin is also very worried about China's buying spree in the heartland of its top technologies — a recent allegedly stealthy purchase of a 9.7 percent stake in Daimler (which owns the Mercedes Benz brand of cars), an 8.8 percent ownership of the Deutsche Bank, the purchase of the robotics firm KUKA and the energy management company Ista.

The company is also developing products in the self - driving car, robotics, life sciences and AI industries, among others.

The company behind the robotic vacuum cleaner is making a major play for the Internet of Things with its next - generation device.

Toyota has been investing in robotic technology over the years in an effort to aid the elderly, especially in the company's home country of Japan.

The company's new Toyota Research Institute - Advanced Development will be headed by James Kuffner, who used to run Google's robotics program, and aims to hire 1,000 people.

Google parent company Alphabet has been taking some «moonshots» recently, working on futuristic projects from robotics to connected homes.

The company was acquired by Google in 2013 during a robotics shopping spree led by Android creator Andy Rubin, but the team struggled to find its place within the tech giant after Rubin's departure, former Boston Dynamics employees said.

Musk and more than 100 leaders of AI and robotics companies warned that lethal autonomous weapons could usher in the «third revolution in warfare.»

Earlier this year, MasterCard announced it was teaming up with SoftBank Robotic, the company behind super cute robot Pepper, to roll out its «first commerce application.»

There's been relatively few promising robotics companies until now, he said, «but people are becoming more commercially disciplined — they're taking it seriously now as a business rather than as a science project.»

It seems like every week there is a new company testing out drone or robotic technology.

Some companies are even splitting production into two shifts: daytime human and nighttime robotic or automated production runs, the latter requiring no on - site supervisors and the attendant overtime costs.

These companies are rapidly buying startups specializing in software, robotics, AI, mapping, cameras, and a host of other fields to forge entirely new alliances that seemed unthinkable only a few years ago.

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Instead of purchasing off - the - shelf robotic applications that competitors also have access to, some forward - looking companies are investing in bespoke sensor and control - system technologies specifically tailored to their operations.

«We're at the beginning stages of becoming a robotics company,» Uber C.E.O. Travis Kalanick said at * Vanity Fair» * s New Establishment Summit this fall.

Moon Express, a Mountain View, California - based company that's aiming to send the first commercial robotic spacecraft to the moon next year, just took another step closer toward that lofty goal.

Tesla has unveiled its futuristic - looking robotic Solid Metal Snake charger that is able to automatically connect to the company's Model S vehicle.

That means 32 percent more robots were bought this year than at the same time in 2016 — it's the strongest first quarter on record for robots ordered by North American companies, according to the Robotic Industries Association.

Using robotics process automation, accounting software company FloQast is rolling out a new solution to automate reconciliation processes.

China's tech giant Tencent is going into robotics with the establishment of the Robotics X laboratory in Shenzhen, the company announced on Thursday.

The Wall Street Journal reports that Foxconn has been working with former Android executive Andy Rubin since last year to carry out the U.S. company's vision for robotics.

«Most startups in AI and robotics have technical depth, but are often lacking in the other aspects of what it takes to build a company that ships complex electromechanical devices in a heavily regulated industry,» the company said in a statement.

Shenzhen - based AI and humanoid robotic company Ubtech has secured $ 820 million in Some Series C funding round, our sister site TechNode Chinese is reporting (in Chinese), setting a new financing record for the largest investment raised in a single round by an AI company.

Within months of the company acquiring Levandowki's startup, a wave of the group's top engineers — many of whom had been poached from Carnegie Mellon University's famed robotics institute — left.

The business model of NowRx is driven by the fully automated end - to - end robotic dispensing system and a very low cost overhead associated with its «virtual pharmacies», which creates room in the company's gross margin to enable free delivery.

The reality is, how do you know where a future - looking robotics and automation - focused company should be?

Volvo is collaborating with the Chalmers University of Technology, Mälardalen University in Sweden, Penn State University and waste - recycling company Renova to develop a robotic trash worker, one which can take direction from a refuse truck driver, collect and empty the trash.