Category: Industrial
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Couples don’t have the same experience when both work from home — ScienceDaily
In dual-earner couples, working from home may be a better deal for husbands than wives in some ways, according to two related studies of workers in China and South Korea. The research showed that both husbands and wives completed more family-related tasks when they worked from home versus the office. However, when wives worked from…
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Video Friday: BRUCE – IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023:…
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Robots Grip Better When They Grip Smarter
Even simple robotic grippers can perform complex tasks—so long as it’s smart about using its environment as its handy aide. This, at least, is the finding of new research from Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute. In robotics, simple grippers are typically assigned straightforward tasks such as picking up objects and placing them somewhere. However, by…
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The Top 10 Robotics Stories of 2022
Twenty-twenty-two was a huge year for robotics. Yes, I might say this every year, and yes, every year I might also say that each year is more significant than any other. But seriously: This year was the best. After a tough pandemic (which, let’s be clear, is still not over), conferences and events have started…
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Video Friday: Happy Holidays! – IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos (special holiday edition!) collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX,…
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Cheerful chatbots don’t necessarily improve customer service — ScienceDaily
Imagine messaging an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot about a missing package and getting the response that it would be “delighted” to help. Once the bot creates the new order, they say they are “happy” to resolve the issue. After, you receive a survey about your interaction, but would you be likely to rate it as…
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Video Friday: No Pilot Needed
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrumrobotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2023: 29 May–2 June 2023, LONDON RoboCup 2023: 4–10 July 2023, BORDEAUX, FRANCE RSS 2023:…
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Q&A: Brian Gerkey and Wendy Tan White on Intrinsic, Open Robotics, and ROS
Today’s announcement of the acquisition of the Open Source Robotics Corporation by Intrinsic has generated a lot of questions, and no small amount of uncertainty about how this will affect the future of ROS. We have a bunch more information in this article, and there are also three blog posts you can take a look…
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Gender and sex assigned at birth are not as decisive in economic decision-making as previously thought — ScienceDaily
Gender and sex assigned at birth are not as decisive in economic decision-making as previously thought, a new study finds. A new study published in Scientific Reports is the first analysis of transgender and cisgender economic behaviour, and the first to consider whether sex assigned at birth plays a significant part in economic decisions. Helena…
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Dietary education leads to healthier lives, study finds
Initial data from a clinical research study aimed at increasing diet quality and decreasing cardiovascular risk shows positive results. The study, called Supermarket and Web-Based Intervention Targeting Nutrition (SuperWIN), was a randomized, controlled trial that promotes a heart-healthy diet through nutrition counseling provided by a supermarket-based, registered dietitian within one of each participant’s home grocery…