On Friday, Foxconn’s Chairman Liu Young stated, the company aims to capture 10% of the global market share for electric vehicles between 2025-2027; to this end it has entered into talks with multiple carmakers for future cooperation. “We want to push Taiwan’s EV industry to the world,” said Liu Young. Foxconn, a major supplier to…
On Monday, the robotics arm of Japanese conglomerate SoftBank stated, it will start using its food service robot developed by California-based Bear Robotics in Japanese restaurants as a means to tackle growing labor shortages faced by the country. Servi, the robot, comes with features which includes layers of trays and is equipped with Lidar sensors…
The warehouse, first of many, will house a hive a robots that can pull together a 50-item grocery order in as little as 5 minutes, thus saving labor time. In a strategic development, Kroger Co has selected Cincinnati for the first of its twenty high-tech warehouses it plans on building with its UK-based Ocado Group…
While the automotive industry typically takes years of planning to place its assembly lines, Tesla accomplished the task in 2 weeks. According to an employee from Tesla Inc, the carmaker’s CEO Elon Musk, is doing all he can, even if it is disrupting the production of the Model S and X, in his drive…
Researchers at Singapire’s Nanyang Technological University (NTU) have programmed two robotic arms that can automatically assemble an IKEA chair. This opens up a new possibilities as well as improved cost savings for the Swedish company. In a significant milestone IKEA disclosed, it has installed robots in its Singapore plant which can assemble flat-packed furniture. As…
In a historic development, a U.S. senate panel has overwhelmingly approved a bill aimed at reducing the time gap before robotic self-driving cars are deployed on U.S. roads. In a development that will lend further momentum to automakers, a U.S. Senate panel has unanimously approved a bill aimed at speeding the deployment of self-driving vehicles…
The impact of its paper could be potential manifold but is yet to be identified. When Apple disclosed that it would publish its research paper on artificial intelligence the pertinent question on people’s mind was would it include the data publicly? Or would it keep potential trade secrets close to its chest? Now that Apple’s…
Intensively tested in its secret labs in Cambridge, UK, Amazon drone delivery service will further push the retailers and shippers in streamlining their operations. Having waited patiently for three long years for Amazon to reveal its bold plan of delivering packages through drones, the world’s largest online retailer has done what many had thought is…
Advances in self-service checkout system could soon bring about increased efficiency in the retail sector. While self-service checkouts are hardly new, the rush to automate jobs which entail manual labour have reached new heights thanks to the efforts made by Lawson and Panasonic. They’ve developed a new basket system which can bag the items once you have…
It wouldn’t be surprising to see LG launch robotic home appliance products in the near future. Although Korean tech giant, LG, has earlier dabbled in robotics, with its vacuum cleaner being a janitor and a security guard, it now appears to be wanting to take the plunge and commit to the long haul. LG has…
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