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Special Needs and STEAM Education
By: Mihran H Kalaydjian
Tags: Special Needs, Schools, Robotics, Special Education, Education Technology

There has been a significant focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM) instruction in primary and secondary educational levels throughout the country and around the world. One key component of a robust STEAM education program has robotics instruction. Developmentally appropriate robotic education can start as early as kindergarten (5–6 years old) and continue through college and beyond.

How Special needs students can benefit from STEM education

Over the past few years, robotics and robotic instruction has become mainstream in elementary and middle schools throughout the country and the world. Additionally, robotic tournaments at all educational levels have shown exponential growth and have been a great showcase for schools at all levels. Most all school cannot have championship level athletic programs but can have championship level robotics teams. Many robotics team consist of top tier students and many school use their robotics team for their “enrichment program” of identified intellectually gifted students. While it is educationally consistent for schools to offer such programs for the gifted students, one group of students that would benefit greatly but are often not engaged in robotics programs are students with special needs.

The concept of resilience and perseverance is an important life skill. This skill is difficult for all students, but is often extremely difficult for students with special needs. Robotics allow students to cooperative work as a team which strengthens and reinforces the life skills of cooperation, collaboration, and communication as well as teamwork and sportsmanship. Additionally, hands-on activities and working with small parts and components which build fine motor skills, enhances organization, and problem-solving are results of robotics. Many students with special needs are very efficient at consuming technology but robotics and STEAM education allow them to apply their skills and content knowledge in meaningful ways to them.
Jetson - Self-Driving Toy Car (Part: 2)
By: Greg Surma
Tags: Robotics, Self Driving Cars, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Programming

Also, feel free to check the corresponding codebase and follow along:

Sensing Improvements

The robustness of the robotics’ systems is often heavily dependent on its sensing capabilities. In other words, the better a robot senses its surrounding environment, the better potentially it can act upon it.

It’s no different in our self-driving toy car project, and we are going to focus on our most important sensor - the camera.

Camera

Currently, the front-facing camera is Jetson’s only source of information about its environment. In Part 1 of the series, it was a 160° wide-angle camera. It was getting the job done, but we could do better if our robot could see more. One of the possible approaches to that problem could be to add more cameras.

This is for example how the sensor suite looks like at Tesla vehicles.

Trying to imitate the above sensor suite would definitely be overkill for our toy car project, but it doesn’t mean we couldn’t improve our initial camera setup.
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Tags: Innovation, Robotics, Digital Transformation, Disruption

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Reinforcement Learning Uygulama ve Araştırma Alanları: Genel Bir Bakış
Tags: Deep Learning, Finance, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence

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Watch A Robot Perform Surgery On A Banana
By: Frank Diana
Tags: Robotics, Health, Wellness

As we march relentlessly towards an Automated Society, scenarios emerge to provide signals. How far will we take this automation scenario? My post last week focused on sports and a robot that Shoots Baskets with stunning accuracy. My post for today looks into robotic surgery, which is traditionally defined as any surgery done with a complete robotic surgical system. It was originally developed for the military so that surgeons could remotely do open surgery on wounded soldiers in the field. This Article on the topic describes it this way:

During these procedures, a surgeon sits at a console several feet away from the patient, and the motorized effector arms of the robot are the ones in actual contact with the patient. The operating surgeon is not wearing a sterile gown or gloves and only the robotic arms and surgical assistant are in contact with the patient. A telemanipulator is a remotely-controlled device that enables the surgeon to control surgical instruments using manipulators and motorized end-effectors. During the Lindbergh Operation in 2001, when the first Trans-Atlantic minimally invasive surgery was done, a telemanipulator was also used, but an additional computerized system was necessary to control the end effectors and robotic arms across such a great distance.

To explore the possibilities, watch this robot perform surgery on a banana.
Universal Robot Arm Kit on your Desk
By: Brian Pacheco
Tags: Robot Arm Kit, Rotrics, Robotics, Roboticprocessautomation, Robotics Automation

DexArm is the world's first universal desktop robot arm kit that fits all your needs. It can easily transform into a 3d printer, laser engraver, and much more. It's easy to DIY your own modules and integrates them into your project.

What can you make with Rotrics?

PLA Material: 3D Printed Colorful Vase

Ceramic Material: Engraved Ceramic Plate

LCD Screen Material: Smart Gomoku Robot

Paper Material: Cat Portrait by DexArm

PLA Material: 3D Printed Gopro Tripod

Leather Material: Laser Engraved Notebook

Cardboard Material: Laser Cutting Paper Lamp

Paper Material: Color Zebra by DexArm

PLA Material: 3D Print Anstronauts

Cardboard Material: Laser Cut Christmas Card

Acrylic Material: Laser Cut Acrylic Deer
Machine
By: Danial Naqvi
Tags: Robotics, Emotions, Machine, Structure, Work

I’m not a machine.

But I feel like I treat myself like a machine.

Does anyone else want me to be a machine?

Not yet but I’m sure soon.

I’m okay in my mannerisms and emotions.

But work… man that’s robotic.

Machine
Leading children’s hospitals deploy surfacide UV disinfection robots to combat coronavirus
By: Neil Martin
Tags: Robotics, Robots Took All Our Jobs, Robot

Over a dozen top pediatric hospitals around the US and the UK have enlisted Surfacide’s powerful Helios System of UV robots to help protect and keep their young patients and healthcare workers safe.

Surfacide’s UV-C technology is scientifically proven to inactivate coronavirus, the family of viruses that make up SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19.

Founded in 2010, Surfacide is the world’s first and only patented, automated, multiple-emitter UV-C system to safely eradicate harmful bacteria and viruses from environments. Using three light-emitting robots simultaneously, Surfacide provides UV-C energy to more exposed areas than single emitters — boosting power, dosage and efficacy in as little as five minutes.

In addition to being deployed in more than 500 hospitals, hotels and other large institutions around the world, Surfacide is being utilized in more than a dozen leading pediatric hospitals.

According to the UK’s Royal Manchester Children’s Hospital, there was an 86% decrease in the bacteria contaminant counts after using Surfacide in comparison to just 63% with traditional cleaning methods.

RMCH Unit Service Improvement and Transformation Lead Julie Jolly said: “We haven’t had to use that device for nearly two years since we introduced the Surfacide UV-C. That’s also had a massive cost (reduction) impact on the hospital.”

“We are grateful that so many pediatric hospitals have adopted Surfacide’s powerful, trusted UV-C robot technology during these critical times,” added Gunner Lyslo, Founder and CEO of Surfacide. “We are proud that Surfacide UV-C is having a positive impact in combating COVID-19 and protecting our most vulnerable young patients and all of the frontline essential healthcare workers that care for them.”
Un robot autonome désinfecte un aéroport grâce aux rayons UV
By: Trecento Am
Tags: Robotique, Robotics, Finance, Trecento Am, Innovation

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First Euro field lab for autonomous drones
By: Neil Martin
Tags: Robots, Robotics, Drone Technology, Drone Service, Drones

High Tech Campus Eindhoven (HTCE) has created a new generation of advanced autonomous aviation digital infrastructure to benefit the Urban Air Mobility (UAM) of cities in a safe, secure and regulated way.

HTCE has appointed Serendipity to execute the technical coordination of its field lab.

“With the rise of drone use, flying taxis and autonomous last-mile delivery, we need to prepare ourselves for the future,” said Jan-Willem Neggers, HTCE Managing Director.

The field lab will be part of the Flying Forward 2020 consortium (FF2020) and ecosystem. FF2020 is a three-year collaborative innovation and research project recently funded by the European Commission.

After completing the launching site at HTCE, the UAM infrastructure will be tested at four other field labs across the EU, namely the University of Oulu in Finland, Tartu Science Park in Estonia, Ospedale San Raffaele Milan in Italy and the City of Zaragoza in Spain.

Neggers added: “When we were approached by LUMO Labs and Serendipity to participate in this project, we saw the possibilities for us as a campus to realize our ambitions. Our innovative campus, with all the tech-savvy people working here, is the perfect location to develop, test and roll out this project.”

“We are honored and excited that we were able to build the UAM ecosystem with the best partners in the world to create the digital infrastructure of the future,” explains Jonas Onland, Managing Partner of Serendipity.

The international FF2020 consortium consists of public and private organizations, universities, and international multi-disciplinary teams of experts, such as Digie, EUROUSC Italia, Nalantis, Serendipity, University of Maastricht and VERSES. FF2020 is supported by several large institutions including the European Space Agency (ESA), NXP, VDL, Microsoft and Nokia and LUMO labs.

Andy Lürling, Founding Partner of LUMO Labs, commented: “Many of these technologies come from start-ups and scale-ups. The field labs will also be ideal test labs for some of our portfolio companies. We see Serendipity as the curator between start-ups and the multinationals.”

Serendipity helps cities and ecosystems to become sustainable, resilient, and safe through digital transformation phases of the cities.

“Of course, we would like to know whose drone is flying — from where, to where, on what path and altitude — just like with planes, only closer to the ground,” Neggers said. “And for exactly this reason, we’d better make it safe, transparent, traceable and well-regulated. I have worked with Jonas of Serendipity over the last year as we prepared for the call. He is the right person to guide us in this new era.”
The Past and Future of Robotic Process Automation
By: Claritus Consulting
Tags: Process, Robotic, Rpa

Robotic Process Automation (RPA) is one of the most exciting developments in Business Process Management (BPM) in recent history. Some industry experts believe it may be even more transformational than cloud computing.

But is that this game-changing technology all that fresh? Any BPM practitioner using a feeling of history understands that RPA has been in existence for a long long moment. For example, inbound call centers are using Interactive Voice Response Systems (IVRS) for ages. These programs use robots to steer clients, accept key tone or voice-based answers, and pass instructions to the underlying use to finish a transaction.

Read More — Top Reasons Why Flutter Has Become A Trend in Application Development

In the same way, optical character recognition (OCR) technologies -additionally classified as applications robots–are employed for a little while today to provide high auto-extraction efficiencies. Additionally, since the coming of online solutions, the business has ever used net BOTs (short form for robots ) to get auto-posting of information. Software Testing business has employed a similar kind of automation for several years to post data in software to handle operational, integration, user, and much more significant regression testing.

What’s different about the most recent wave of RPA is that the maturity of the technology and the business processes it’s applied to. The marketplace for RPA is progressing quickly -and widespread adoption of autonomous automation can dramatically reshape the BPM market.

Cost reduction: Software robots are typically at least one third the price of an offshore FTE.

Efficiency: RPA can operate 24X7 without breaks provided the underlying core applications are available.

Accuracy: Human FTEs make data entry mistakes, whereas robots perform the same task the same way every time provided there is no judgment call required while processing transactions.

Improved audit and regulatory compliance: Robots can provide detailed audit logs enabling advanced business analytics and improved compliance.

Ease of change management: Robots preserve application and data integrity by leveraging the existing application presentation layer and re-using existing application logic, databases, and validation without deep understanding and re-engineering.

To sum up: RPA is not new. Without a doubt, you and your organization have already been touched by robotic automation in one form or another. However, they say there’s nothing as powerful as an idea whose time has come. And the time for RPA-powered transformation is now.
improvements in robot technology
By: Raveen Fernando
Tags: Robotics, Robo, Robotics Automation

Robotic is the new revolution in this digital world. These have made people’s jobs easier. In other words, these have replaced many of the jobs that people do. As you all know, robot technology is widely used in manufacturing industries, laboratories, traffic control, research, search operations and military operations.

A robot is any machine that operates automatically and replaces human effort. By extension, robotics is the engineering discipline of robots’ design, read more
Durians Daily #154: E-commerce is not only for retail, according to Carousell, plus three tips for SMEs going digital; A sense of normalcy for hospitalized children in Arizona with OhmniLabs’ robots
Tags: Robotics, Digital, Ecommerce, Healthtech

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AmCham North Luzon: Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation
By: John Clements Consultants
Tags: Amcham, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Innovation, Digitization

AmCham North Luzon: Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation

Last December 9, 2020, I attended the webinar on “Artificial Intelligence and Robotic Process Automation”, conducted by AmCham Philippines- North Luzon Chapter. Mr. Ebb Hinchcliffe, Executive Director of AmCham Philippines, started off the webinar by welcoming and thanking the attendees for their continuous support of the Chamber’s virtual events. Following this, the featured speaker, Mr. Emmanuel Bonoan, Vice Chairman and Chief Operating Officer and Head of Advisory of KPMG, was introduced by Ms. Maritess Rivera, First Vice President of BDO Unibank.

Mr. Emmanuel Bonoan started his talk on the journey of Artificial Intelligence with the “evolution of systems”. A hundred years ago, Mechanical Systems emerged and became the starting point of what we are experiencing today. As the years passed, Information Systems developed and soared for 35 years, followed by the Internet Systems that reigned for 15 years and continuously upgraded until the coming of the Cloud and Internet of Things, which have been prevailing for the past 5 years. As digitization arises in this era, technology continues to modernize and upgrade into “cognitive systems”.

Furthermore, there is a so-called “Intelligent Automation (IA)”, which consists of the following:

Artificial Intelligence (AI) , which pertains to the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior.

, which pertains to the capability of a machine to imitate intelligent human behavior. Machine Learning (ML) , which enables systems to automatically learn and improve.

, which enables systems to automatically learn and improve. Robotic Process Automation (RPA), which enables organizations to configure computer software, or “bots” to capture and interpret existing applications.

According to Mr. Bonoan, AI and cognitive systems will soon replace human work. As an example, a machine was asked a question: “How to be creative?” and the machine wrote the prose presented below:

Moreover, Mr. Bonoan presented an overview of the State of AI Deployment research done in cooperation with KPMG globally.
Rizon in the Shave-a-Balloon Challenge
By: Flexiv - Dexterous
Tags: Lab, Robotics, Challenge, Force Control

Curious about Rizon’s performance in the #Shave-a-Balloon Challenge? Check the video to have a look.

By the way, Rizon has also prepared a small surprise for you :)
Silly Ideas 1 v0.1
By: Ramesh Dura
Tags: Technology, Robotics, Apple

Silly Ideas 1 v0.1

Every now and then i come up with silly ideas in my mind which just passes through. But recently i am thinking of at least making some note of them.

From the above picture you might not know what i have made because it's just a rough sketch. So, i will try to explain as much as possible.

Micro-bots:

So, they are the small robots that can run in the trails after being triggered by the user. They will fill the trails making a tight bond.

Stock:

Stock will be a slim bag that will hold the micro-bots in it with slots system and wireless charging capabilities to charge the micro-bots

Trails:

Trails will be more of a flexible but yet strong trail where the bots can travel and make a strong bond.

Note: The trail is a strong yet flexible part of the system. Micro bots are the ones which joins to make a strong bond.
Olá, meu nome é Layla
By: Matheus Duzzi Ribeiro
Tags: Robotics, Digital Marketing, Automation, Data Science, AI

Welcome to the dark side of data science
Robots are now widely used in factories to perform jobs that require high precision.
By: Pantech Elearning
Tags: Robotics Training, Robotics, Robotics Technology, Robotics Automation, Robotics Process

Robotics can define as the design, construction, and use of machines (robots) to perform tasks that are traditionally done by human beings. It is a branch of engineering and science which includes electronics engineering, mechanical engineering and computer science and so on.

The term robotics refers to the branch of technology, research, and development that deals with the designing, building, and operating of robots.

Robots are mostly using in situations that would be dangerous for humans. Such as cleaning toxic wastes or defusing bombs.

The combination of artificial intelligence with advance robotic is the main reason for many current developments happening in both fields. The application of technologies like computer vision and natural language processing allows for large advancements. Everything from self-driving vehicles to human-like androids.

A robotics engineer is responsible for developing robots and robotic systems that are able to perform works that are unable to perform by humans. Thus, a robotics engineer helps to make jobs safer, easier, and more efficient, especially in the manufacturing industry.

There is a huge scope in robotics. Therefore, if you are thinking about doing an internship in this field, this is the perfect time.

Pantech eLearning Chennai has a highly specialized robotics internship and is one of the best robotics internships. We are offering Internship in Robotics. This will help you to learn techniques and skills necessary to build a successful career in this technology. The internship is provided by Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE). After the successful completion of the internship you will be provided with the IETE Certification. You can join this program in a discount price of Rs.1750.The total internship duration will be 30 hours and you will get a lifetime access when you join us. Also, you will be guided by of our experienced trainers.

Robotics field has very large scope in upcoming years. This technology is adopting all over the world. Starting a career in IT with Robotics has definitely great success ahead.

This industry is still relatively young. But has already made amazing achievements. From the deepness of our oceans to the vastness of outer space, we can found robots performing tasks that humans couldn’t dream of achieving.

Robotics is quickly moving out of the factory floor and is coming into the real world. When looking at the developments in this field, we can find that we’re just a matter of years away. There will be an increasing presence of robotic devices and automatic semi-intelligent machines in our workplaces, on our streets, and even in our homes.

Robotics technology influences us in many ways in our daily life. Also it has the ability to positively transform lives and work practices, increase efficiency and safety levels and provide enhance level of service.
Drone control simulation by hand movement
By: Hrithik Verma
Tags: Robots, Image Processing, Robotics, Drones, Matlab

In this simulation drone is controlled by hand movements. This simulation is done in V-Rep robotic simulator and image processing is done in MATLAB. In MATLAB, the center coordinates of orange object is calculated than those coordinated are send to the V-Rep simulator and drone moves according to the coordinates.

Check project files to understand more about it

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Buy-Robot 🤖
Tags: Robots, Engineering, Robotics, Innovation, Business

Robots are taking over in more ways than one. Not only do they serve as an amazing way for production lines to be more productive but over the recent past, they’ve even acted as “a man’s best friend.”

Boston Dynamics is best-known for the development of its Robot Dog. A stellar piece of engineering that moves, jumps, and acts like a dog. Great news for people allergic to the furry animals.

Recently, mega-fund SoftBank has needed liquidity as the pandemic has crippled the business. The Japanese telecom-VC hybrid has made the decision to sell off pieces of its portfolio to try and get some much-needed cash on hand.

According to Reuters, SoftBank has decided to unload its stake in Boston Dynamics. South Korean carmaker Hyundai Motor Group will be the one picking up the pieces by picking up an 80% stake in Boston Dynamics for $880 million. This has cemented a valuation of $1.1 billion for the robotics company.

It’s going to be fascinating to see what Hyundai has planned for this recent acquisition. It’s being said that this move will enable the company to streamline its plant operations, cutting its dependence on human employees and battling the unions which represent them.

Is this a good move for Hyundai? Or should they get the robot dog to fetch the money they just threw down the drain?

I am not a financial advisor and my comments should never be taken as financial advice. Investments come with risk, so always do your research and analysis beforehand.
Human Learning Journal: How to teach a robot to dance?
By: Valentin Kindschi
Tags: Dance, Impactia, Reinforcement Learning, Robotics, Humanlearningjournal

How to teach dance to a robot ?

Our dancing robot Dai

Now that we have the tools to understand the basic principles of reinforcement learning, let’s get back to our initial question: how to teach a robot to dance? If we take the example of Dai, the goal was to give it the minimum guidance to let it express itself as freely as possible. During Dai’s previous exhibition, its major constraint was the pink square on the ground, which it could not leave, as you can see in the picture above. Let’s see how to use a Markov Decision Process to teach Dai how to dance.

The first thing to do is to define Dai’s states and actions. To do so, it is necessary to understand its hardware, and more specifically its engines: as you can see on the picture, Dai possesses six legs, which are in fact six wheels, mounted on three long sliders. Therefore, a state was defined to take into consideration the speed of each wheel engine, the speed and position of the slider engines, plus Dai’s position in space. The same logic is used to define the actions, which are to increase or decrease the speed of each engine.

Now that the states and actions are defined, a rewarding method must be found. As we want Dai to dance, it will receive better reward when it moves and when it does broad movement with its sliders. This way, Dai will be discouraged from standing still. In addition, to prevent it from leaving his square, it will receive negative rewards when its position is outside this area.

From there, we can start Dai and let it explore the available states and actions, creating its own policy. Of course, in the beginning it might go outside the square and it might not move a lot. But, the more time passes, the more it will understand where it is allowed to stay and what action to perform to get the best rewards.

Seeing Dai dance is very interesting because we can recognize some patterns, or repeated dance moves, that it seems to like because it gives good rewards. Moreover, as its policy is stored between each performance, it never starts from nothing and each time it performs it invents new moves or reinvents old ones.

It should be noted that, as we wanted Dai to be as creative as possible, we tried to have a very simple rewarding system, which leaves it a lot of freedom. We wanted to see Dai’s vision of dance. However, in a different project we could imagine using more constraining rewards, making a robot mimics classical dance or hip-hop by giving large rewards when specific type of movements are made.
Floating Furniture with Ori
By: Allison Zhao
Tags: Furniture Design, Robotics

Intelligent furniture.

The construction of apartment buildings is on the rise in areas such as Toronto. Source

A little bit about Ori

As cities become more and more densely populated, the amount of living space decreases. I used to live in an apartment near Toronto and I can tell you that it definitely feels like being squished and confined in an ever-so-small box on some days. But what if there was a way to live large in the same confined space? Presenting Ori — the furniture company getting people the space they deserve.

Ori has since raised $26M from Khosla Ventures, Google Sidewalk Labs and more.

How Ori furniture works! Source

Each product Ori designs aims to expand space in its own way, but multiple products can be choreographed to work together. Its a great investment for those who want to space without sacrificing space or comfort.

Some of Ori’s products:

- Cloud bed: A Bed disappears into the ceiling to reveal a cozy living space complete with a coffee table and sofa - Pocket office: A flexible home office setup that appears when it’s needed and makes room for living space when it’s not - Pocket closet: With the touch of a button, Pocket Closet expands to reveal a covetable walk-in closet - Studio suite slim: Slimmed down Studio Suite design - Studio suite: Studio Suite moves with your needs to create multiple rooms within one space; from bedroom to private office to living room to walk-in closet

At first glance Ori’s products may seem like they are floating (and maybe they are👀). Ori’s, horizontally moving systems use a track that is attached to the floor using high-strength, removable adhesive tape. Vertically moving systems are freestanding products that are anchored to the wall for additional stability with simple drywall anchors. There are no permanent changes or construction on the unit for installation for those who accidentally change their mind :)

What’s in for the future of robotic furniture?

The demand for robotic furniture is bright. Expensive square footage, (especially in major cities like Toronto, Vancouver, New York, etc.) and work-from-home policies are just a few factors that drive the need for maximizing living space.

“What changed is that people spend more time at home, and they realize that traditional architecture is broken.” — Sankarshan Murthy, the chief executive and co-founder of Ori

Maybe all of us aren’t ready to install robotic furniture in our homes yet, but who knows?
AI Ethics: Robotics
By: Arjun Santhanakrishnan
Tags: Ethics, Robotics, AI

When we think about robots and Artificial Intelligence, it is obvious that most people picture a Terminator-style robot that hunts down humans who are threats to them. However, this vision is not what is occurring in robotics at our present technological time. In our time period, we are merely using robots to take over tasks that humans could do, but even this advancement has led to some ethical implications. These implications include dilemmas regarding employment, various autonomous systems, and the morality of robotic systems.

The first thing that should be discussed is the influence of robotics on employment in many sectors. Productivity increases greatly when using robots instead of humans due to their lack of many needs. This efficiency increase will dramatically impact our economic gains, but there should be ethical considerations before having robots do every job. In past generations and even now, classical automation takes the place of human muscles, not our brains. Still, when we can automate human thinking, we must consider the expansive change in our job markets. Our society also has to think about distributing the monetary costs and subsequent benefits of using this type of Artificial Intelligence in our workplace.

Furthermore, the usage of robotics and autonomy in various fields needs to be addressed. For example, autonomous vehicles can save approximately one million lives lost every year to traffic accidents. Various dilemmas about using these vehicles have been brought up, such as the “trolley problem,” where the user has to decide to sacrifice one life to save multiple or keep one person alive. In addition to these dilemmas, programmers for the vehicles have to account for user mistakes, keep driver safety in mind, and think about ensuring everyone's safety on the roads and streets.

Another example for which autonomy and robotics can be used is weaponry and warfare. Algorithms for warfare, such as having a computer trained on war simulations and using that information to decide on an army’s next move, can be implemented in the future. We can use robotics and autonomy to keep wars safer or destroy even more lives in this occurrence. It is up to governments and the programmers of these systems to always ensure their systems avoid the slaughter of innocents as has occurred in every war up to date, and to keep checks and balances in place such that not one autonomous algorithm has all the power to make decisions.

As the next generation of thinkers and idealists enters the workforce, we have to keep in mind the morality behind using AI and robotics wherever we go. To allow for a peaceful and well-built society in the future, we must ensure we use our technological advances to ensure the welfare of our society and not for death or destruction. Creating a better future for generations to come should be our only goal.

This is my last post for the blog series about AI and ethical dilemmas. Thanks for reading and supporting my endeavors.
Want to learn Robotics?
By: Adith Sreejey
Tags: Technology, Robotics, AI

Want to learn Robotics?

What is Robotics?

As the term suggest Robotic is the science study of robot. The term robot is comes from Czech word “Robota”. Robota meaning forced labor coined by Karel Capek in 1921. Later Isaac asimov late back in 1940 . A formulated a three laws of robotics.

Laws

First Law

The first law of robotics a state that A robot may not injury a human being or through in action allow a human being to come to harm.

Second Law

The second law state that a robot must follow the comment of the human being expect where this command does not conflict which the first law.

Third Law

A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or second law .

A robot is a integrated system made up of sensors, manipulators, control system, power supplies and software which work co- dependently in order to perform task. The study of the robot therefore requires a multidisplinary approach which includes subjects like science physics mechanical engineering, electrical engineering structural engineering, mathematics, computer engineering are involved.

All Robots are machine but all machine are not robots because to be robot the need to have a certain characteristics to be as a robot. those characteristics are:

Sensing

One of the most important aspect of a machine to be called as a robot is its ability to sense the environment in which it is working. The sensing ability of the robot are not very much different from that of humans . They have engineer to have light sensors which perform the function eyes and touch and pressure sensor which perform the function of hand, chemical sensor which perform the function of nose, hearing and sonar sensors which perform the function of the ears and taste sensor which perform the function of tongue and all these sensor together make a robot aware of its aware of its surrounding

Movement

A Robot has the ability to move locomote from one place to another like a sojourner or either move one of its parts like Canada Arm to carry out the moment of the products. This can be done by the rolling wheels, walking legs or propelling on thrusters

Energy

A Robot is required to have a power source to carry out around task a robot could gets it energy through solar charging, electrical charging or battery. depending on the robot.

Conclusion

After reading this blog u guys came to know about what is robotics. how coined robotics. the fundamental laws of robotics. how you can find the difference between machine and robot.
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By: Craig Valine
Tags: Prospects, Marketing Strategies, Persuasion, Why People Buy, Selling Skills

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Marketing agency objectives for 2021.
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Tags: Agency, Marketing Strategies, Digital Marketing, New Year Resolution, Marketing Agency

Marketing agency objectives for 2021.

As a digital marketing agency, we are heading to 2021 with only 2 objectives in our mind:

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A Comprehensive Guide to Naming Your Brand Wisely
By: Akm Intisar Islam
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Branding, Branding Strategy, Names

A Comprehensive Guide to Naming Your Brand Wisely

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Naming a Brand is easy and crucial at the same time. If you select a random name that somehow crossed your mind, selecting a brand name will be easy peasy. But if you think of things such as how the name can impact your business, then it’s a tough job. As a new brand, you need to focus on the name first because it’s a permanent thing that will represent your business for a lifetime. So, let’s crosscheck the facts and select a super cool name for your brand that can generate real impact.

We will ask and answer 5 questions about your brand name and modify the name accordingly. Let’s get started!

1. Is It Personal?

Your brand can be personal or not personal. Personal brands are for celebrities. If you’re one of them, you should name your brand after your name. That’ll boost your brand and you’ll easily get huge customers who are your fan!

But if you're not a celebrity, naming after your own name is misleading and bad for business. Such as everybody wants a CR7 perfume, they don’t care how it smells. But none is ready to buy a perfume after someone’s name whom they don't know.

So, don’t choose your name as your brand name or anyone’s name as your brand name. There are thousands of names you can choose, choose from them. And most importantly, try to connect with the market. Such as the name “Programming Hero”. It is not personal but it can connect well.
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By: Silvia Luna Sosa
Tags: Libertad Financiera, Marketing Strategies, Educación Financiera, Dinero, Lifestyle

The Magic World of Money

¿ What is the Eternal Mastery in Successful Entrepreneurship? (M3E)

For some time now, people who see beyond the formal, look for a way to work online, either due to lack of a “stable” job or because they want to be owners of their time, really choose a job that allows them to get very good income. Tempting isn’t it?

But as in any profession, one must know, be sure of the steps to take, in order to understand what, how and why, as well as what works and what does not, the different strategies of entrepreneurship, such as new tools. that are trends for this type of business, and the ones that we are all interested in and really want to achieve is to be able to be Free, financially and manage our times, travel, be with the family, etc.

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By: Nicolas Cole
Tags: Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Writing Tips, Writer, Writing

Platform engagement averages per asset:

Quora (~3,000 impressions per answer)

2. Twitter (~2,000 impressions per Tweet)

3. Medium (~1,000 impressions per article)

These 3 platforms are drastically under-leveraged considering you can copy/paste the same content to all 3.

Step 1: write a Twitter thread

Step 2: copy/paste thread and reformat a bit as an answer to a relevant question on Quora.

Step 3: copy/paste that answer, add a title, post as an article on Medium.

Bonus Step 4: copy/paste article and publish again as an article on LinkedIn.
8 Most Important Digital Marketing Strategies for Startups in 2021
By: Ghani Mengal
Tags: Startup, Marketing, Marketing Strategies, Digital Marketing, Startup Marketing

Why Do You Need Digital Marketing Strategies?

Before you leap and plan before you hit the road. A perfect digital marketing strategy for a startup would help you in diverting better web traffic, brand image, and customers and all this is offered at an affordable price.

Like all other marketing strategies, digital marketing strategies also demand some planning, preparation, and focused execution. And to gain more from the digital marketing strategy you need to work with a professional digital marketing firm. Find a professional digital marketing agency that could chalk out the best digital marketing strategies for startups and take your baby steps in this giant competitive world.

Here we are sharing some digital marketing strategies for startups that would help startups in sustaining and surviving in this tough competitive world.

The best part about digital marketing platforms is here you can start your marketing and promotional activity before actively entering into the market. As soon as you start planning, building a website, product catalog, and marketing strategy, start focusing on digital marketing strategy as well. The more well-discussed approach you follow for your digital marketing campaign the more successful you can become.