Robots Business

Robots are entering the mainstream. Technologies have advanced to the point of mass commercialization - Roomba, for example - and adoption by governments - most notably, their use of drones. Meanwhile, these devices are being received by a public whose main sources of information about robots are the fantasies of popular culture. We know a lot about C-3PO and Robocop, but not much about Atlas, Motoman, Kiva, or Beam - real-life robots that are reinventing warfare, the industrial workplace, and collaboration.

During his 35-year career in the Army, Rick Lynch led 25,000 of our country’s best to victory in “The Surge” in Iraq. He came home to take command of Fort Hood, Texas, the largest Army Installation in America. He rose up to take charge of every Army Installation on Earth, leading 120,000 mostly civilian employees through the restructuring of a $20-billion budget, under unimaginable pressure from the Pentagon.

Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves, and put the knowledge of our entire civilization in your back pocket. But no one - from MIT nerds to Army Corps engineers - has ever built a robot that can lay bricks as well as a mason. Unlike the controlled conditions of a factory line, where robots are now ubiquitous, no two construction sites are alike, and a day’s work involves countless variables - bricks that range in size and quality, temperamental mortar mixes, uneven terrain, fickle weather, and moody foremen.

Can money buy you love? Aiden is about to find out. After years of not trusting a woman’s true intentions, Aiden has given up on them completely. He turns to Dream Droids, the premier company in creating an artificial companion, to build him the perfect woman. She’s smart—too smart. And tempting—too tempting. And Aiden can’t be tempted. An employee is stealing from his billion-dollar company, and the police feel his corporation is somehow behind a surge of a new drug on the street called Frenzy. When Aiden’s Dream Droid flaunts her intelligence and begins to connect the pieces, ...

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute Discover what’s next for robotics, automation, and AI—before it happens. In the midst of a digital transformation, The Robot and Automation Almanac – 2020 captures a powerful snapshot of the technologies, industries, and trends that are shaping the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This must-read volume assembles forecasts and insights from 25+ leading futurists, technologists, and industry experts on the future of work, supply chains, smart manufacturing, and AI-driven innovation. With original essays from executives at ...

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute Explore the Future—Before It Happens. Robots are no longer confined to factory floors or science fiction. They’re in our homes, our hospitals, our warehouses—and in 2019, they're poised to reshape industries, economies, and everyday life. The Robot and Automation Almanac – 2019 gathers expert insights from top thinkers in robotics, automation, and AI to deliver a comprehensive look at the trends and technologies driving the future. In this forward-looking anthology, over 20 industry leaders—engineers, futurists, tech ...

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute Welcome to the Automation Age. What happens when supply chains break, labor markets tighten, and inflation surges—all at once? You automate. The Robot and Automation Almanac – 2022 is your front-row seat to the future of automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence. In this fifth volume of the acclaimed almanac series, top experts from Microsoft, Honeywell, iTRACE Technologies, MHI, Hyster, The Futurist Institute, and more come together to forecast the trends, technologies, and transformations shaping business, education,...

COVID Edition By Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute The future of work is not a binary choice between doomsday or utopia. It’s a path we shape—together. Will robots take all the jobs? Will automation free us for lives of creativity and leisure—or trap us in a dystopia of mass unemployment and government dependence? In Jobs for Robots, top-ranked futurist and economist Jason Schenker cuts through the noise, hype, and fear to deliver a powerful, data-driven guide to what automation, robotics, and artificial intelligence really mean for the future of work. Updated to ...

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute The Future Isn't Coming—It's Already Here. The COVID-19 pandemic didn’t just disrupt supply chains, workforces, and economies—it accelerated the future. In this critically acclaimed fourth volume of The Robot and Automation Almanac, over 20 futurists, technologists, economists, engineers, and thought leaders forecast the trends, technologies, and transformations reshaping our world in real time. From the warehouses and hospitals of today to the digitally driven workplaces of tomorrow, this almanac explores how robotics, AI, ...

Edited by Jason Schenker, Chairman of The Futurist Institute Welcome to the Future. What if you could go back in time and read a book that predicted how automation, robotics, AI, and future tech would begin transforming industries and daily life? This is that book—for the year 2018. The Robot and Automation Almanac – 2018 captures a unique moment in the evolution of technology, offering rare insight into the pivotal year when the age of automation began to emerge from science fiction into everyday reality. In this visionary collection, top experts, CEOs, engineers, and futurists explore...

Staying true to his trademark journalistic approach, Andrés Oppenheimer takes his listeners on yet another journey, this time across the globe, in a thought-provoking search to understand what the future holds for today's jobs in the foreseeable age of automation.

In the future, true love is something that can be created to a person's specifications. Meet Denise Merritt - the perfect woman. She is beautiful, caring, emotional, sensitive, smart, friendly, and has the best personality a person could possibly have. She is also not real. Denise is an android (model) and she was made for the man, Steven Adams (mate), who wants to spend the rest of his life with someone special. Once he finally meets her, he had hoped to live out the rest of his life with the only person in the world he truly loves, but he gets swept into an unwelcome adventure when he ...

Think how commonplace it is now for people to ask Siri for the weather forecast, deploy Roomba to clean their homes, or summon Alexa to turn on the lights. The "smart home" market will reach well over $100 billion in the next five years on the promise of products that are truly integrated with our cooking, cleaning, entertainment, security, and hygiene habits. But the reality is, these first-generation "smart" products aren't very smart - yet. We're clearly seeing only the tip of the iceberg in terms of capability and how such products can enhance our lives.

¿Qué sucede cuando encierras a varios directivos, desarrolladores y responsables de negocio a jugar y experimentar con nuevas tecnologías? Es curioso observar sus reacciones, muy diversas y emocionales, aunque con un denominador común: todos dejan volar su imaginación hacia nuevos espacios y modelos de negocio en los que se podrían aplicar.

Our divides are destroying us: red versus blue, Black versus White, globalists versus nationalists, agnostics versus Christians. Drawing on seminal research on social identity and cultural intelligence, this book explains our impulse to divide people into “us” versus “them” and reveals how we can tackle tribalism, confront racism, and develop a common vision for the future. David Livermore outlines the four competencies of Cultural Intelligence—motivation, cognition, metacognition, and behavior—and shows how we can apply this foundation to a wide range of situations.

Artificial intelligence is shaping our world in fascinating ways, from digital assistants to self-driving cars. But AI can seem complex and intimidating. This fun and engaging book unravels the mysteries of AI for pre-teens and teens ages 10-19 in an accessible way. In ‘AI for Smart Pre-Teens and Teens Ages 10-19’, you will learn all about the building blocks of AI, including machine learning, deep learning and neural networks. The book covers the history of AI from early computational systems up through the cutting-edge innovations powering the future. You will discover how AI already ...

How to Talk to Robots is your girls' guide to artificial intelligence. Entrepreneur Tabitha Goldstaub welcomes you into the AI world with a warm embrace. She brilliantly breaks down the tech-bro barriers offering a straightforward introduction and makes clear the enormous benefits of understanding AI.

At some point, every early-stage start-up needs to stop being a secret and start telling people. As your engineering and development work begins to take shape, building fast attention and strong demand become essential—and just buying ads won't be enough. Matthews provides frameworks, examples, and interviews that reinforce the book’s central thesis: Marketing is a discipline, not just an activity. The book offers practical, jargon-free ideas that seamlessly blend marketing fundamentals with the functional realities of fast-paced, growth-focused start-ups.

There is a huge effort underway in industry and universities to develop the next generation of more intelligent, autonomous, mobile robots. Accompanying these arrivals has been a steady stream of inflammatory articles in the media raising concerns over the impending specter of super-intelligent robots, along with stories about how most jobs will soon be lost to robots.

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