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The lowdown on Bionaut Labs, the US startup that's on a mission to revolutionise the medical world with its innovative microscale robots We are, and have been for a while, in a period of time where reality begins to catch up with science fiction; where technology that we accepted as only part of fictional worlds starts to become a reality. One such technology is microrobotics for use in the med...
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The Countries at Risk From Automation! According to new research by MerchantMachine.co.uk, at 82%, the UK takes fourth place in the list of European countries being most ready for automation and robotics, whilst 30% of the UK population’s jobs are at risk of automation. The research also offers insight into the amount of global revenue automation is set to generate in the next thr...
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Ivana Dobrilovic from LuggageHero shares her thoughts on the tech trends that will impact the travel and tourism industry in 2020Although Bleisure (Business + Leisure) was a trend of the past decade, it’s definitely something we’ll see rolling into the 2020s where working to live and living to work is a way of life. We’re repeatedly told that all you need is a good laptop and a g...
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Tech startups building solutions relevant to the UK aerospace industry - take note! Whether you're involved in AI, analytics or blockchain, supply chain robots or factory automation, or if operations management, manufacturing or logistics is your focus, this accelerator is for you... Designed to support startups building solutions applicable to the UK aerospace industry, the ATI Boeing Accelerato...
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Here, Chris Unwin, CEO at LAC Conveyors and Automation explains how these developments in technology can be used to address the skills and labour shortage across a number of sectors.Automation has received mixed reviews from businesses in recent times; often depending on the type of organisation you are speaking to and the level of seniority of the individual being questioned. For some ...
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AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. So will robots become part of the family as our pets have?  AI: Artificial Intelligence, currently the buzzwords about town betwixt the tech-savvy among us. Published this week in the Telegraph was news from Sir Nigel Shadbolt that robots will not destroy humanity. It seems movies depicting the f...
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Last mile logistics and deliveries made easy, thanks to these, coming soon, ground-based, robotic delivery machines from robotics startup Eliport. Pollution is becoming more and more of a problem, and with the Earth just 2 degrees Celsius from a ‘hothouse’ tipping point, something needs to be done soon. As we have said before, until governments get it together, it is up to entreprene...
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The Small Robot Company - The lowdown on the agri-tech startup that's using robotics and AI to innovate the farming industry through small robots... Farming is expensive. We hear time and time again on the news about how farmers are making pennies on some of their produce, or even working at a loss to ensure that they aren’t passed over by retailers. We have written before about startups su...
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By incorporating augmented reality into a robot, Reach Robotics aims to introduce a unique hybrid of virtual and real world play through next level robotics, gaming, and AR.Reach Robotics, the Bristol based, augmented reality gaming company has announced that their flagship product MekaMon, the world’s first real-life gaming robot, is now available on Apple.com and selected Apple stores...
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Robots eh, it seems they will have a lot of explaining to do, when they have stolen all of our jobs. Or perhaps the robots that built the robots that stole all of our jobs, will have a lot of explaining to do....Or the robots that designed the robots, that built the robots…. Fear of job automation is currently at fever point... so what better way to play the ol’ doomsday scenario, th...
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