Robots: the good, the not so good and the shitty
Here are some of the reads I've enjoyed this week or so.
Thanks for sharing this very shitty robot with us, Marwa! (ps you should all listen to Marwa’s Soft Robots Podcast)
Quick Reads:
This robot detects leaks and saves water - Voice of America
This mind controlled robot will pour you the perfect pint - McDowell News
Facial recognition’s latest foe: Italian Knitwear - The Record
New Yorkers friendlier than expected as robots take out the trash - TechXplore
Interviews from ProMat and more - Actuator - Tech Crunch
Boichik Bagels opens robot assisted store in Berkeley - SiliconValley.com
How Geek+ picked more than 10 Billion articles last year. - The Robot Report
Avidbots Neo Cleaning Robot used by many of the newly named top cleanest global airports - BusinessWire
Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs - Open AI
Copilot - Your AI Pair Programmer - Github
AI ate software - Exponential View
A misleading open letter about sci-fi AI dangers ignores the real risks - AI Snake Oil
Robotics investment reaches $620M in February 2023 - The Robot Report
SVB’s demise swirled on private VC, founder networks before hitting twitter - Yahoo
A startup company is building a new hub for robotics in Greater Peoria - WCBU.org
Switzerland’s lead in AI drone technology raises ethical questions - Swiss Info
Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada? - Noahpinion
Ocado wins UK patent lawsuit over AutoStore - The Robot Report
Community acceptance is key to the drone delivery market growth - Undefined Technologies
Waymo retires its self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan - TechCrunch
Events:
Author Event with Dr. Sven Beiker
The Mobility Diaries: Connecting the Milestones of Innovation Leading to ACES
April 13th at Stanford Research Center
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/author-event-with-dr-sven-beiker-tickets-575687134717
Robotics Summit and Expo - save 25% with SVR25
https://www.roboticssummit.com/
Deeper Reads:
Ethicists fire back at ‘AI Pause’ letter they say ‘ignores the actual harms’
A group of well-known AI ethicists have written a counterpoint to this week’s controversial letter asking for a six-month “pause” on AI development, criticizing it for a focus on hypothetical future threats when real harms are attributable to misuse of the tech today.
3 MIN READ
THINKING IN BETS A Taxonomy of Cognitive Bias
Maybe it’s all confirmation bias – which is what I always thought
PREVIEW∙ANNIE DUKE∙3 MIN READ
OTTOMATE Exploring the Future of Delivery Bots with Cartken's Christian Bersch
CEO shares thoughts on regulatory environment, computer vision, industry's future
PREVIEW∙OTTO∙6 MIN READ
EXPONENTIAL INDUSTRY Showing the Receipts of Smart Manufacturing
Showing the receipts of Rockwell Automation's "8th Annual State of Smart Manufacturing Report" with proof points of technology adoption for greater resiliency, agility, and sustainability.
DAVID ROGERS∙8 MIN READ
New MIT Research Indicates That Automation Is Responsible for Income Inequality
A newly published paper quantifies the extent to which automation has contributed to income inequality in the U.S., simply by replacing workers with technology — whether self-checkout machines, call-center systems, assembly-line technology, or other devices.