The number of suppliers is going up, costs are coming down, systems are getting smaller and becoming more off-the-shelf and less bespoke. All this means that automation is not just for the big players – smaller warehouses can automate too.
Contrary to popular belief, robots don’t tend to steal jobs, most businesses only look to automate when they can’t find people willing to do the low paid, highly repetitive, dirty and even dangerous tasks that are a good fit for robots.
Aidong Xu joins PassW0rd with Peter Warren, who looks at AI chip development, the arms race of the 21st century and the high-tech bedrock of a brave new world.
Rodney Richardson, software and systems engineer, who has spent the past 20 years designing and developing medical software, outlines ten essential points for medical device developers regarding cybersecurity.
While other sectors have embraced the digital age and forged ahead with new technologies, techniques and approaches, construction has seen slower change. Some estimate that manufacturing productivity has increased eight-fold and agriculture 16-fold in the last 70 years, while construction has barely improved.
Many hands make light work (properly coordinated hands that is). This timeless truism is the essence of why I believe collaborative autonomous drone fleets with a dynamic hierarchy of command and control will help ambitious companies seize the future.