Digital technologies can cater as a transformative force in the educational system and learning landscape. Introducing robotics to students at a younger age helps to develop creativity, ignite critical thinking and further permeate a collaborative mindset by opening the door to a handful of opportunities. The National Education Policy launched by the Indian government gives significant importance to robotics and coding. To create a learning environment empowered by innovation and the latest technological advancements. Advantages of robotics education There are a plethora of advantages served by robotics and related technologies….
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What is Robotics education?
Technology is transforming the way people live, and all industries are growing because of the impact of the latest technologies. What steps are being taken by schools to prepare the next generation for the future? The truth is that educational institutions are already doing a great deal of work in this area. Everything we see today in robotics can trace its origins to research, and an academic paradigm that brought on board policymakers, scientists, and governments. Robotics education is now becoming an increasingly important aspect of the curriculum. What is…
Read MoreAmazon Invests $1 Billion in Warehouse Robotics
Amazon has formed the Amazon Industrial Innovation Fund (AIIF), a $1 billion venture capital fund that will be used to “spur supply chain, fulfilment, and logistics innovation,” with a particular focus on automation and workplace robotics. The initiative is in response to a changing market scenario in which people are increasingly shopping online and have high expectations for delivery times and online experiences. Amazon’s new fund seeks to create solutions that either improve these features or improve the experience of storage and logistics employees. “We see an opportunity to look…
Read MoreWhat is the impact of AI in future?
Worlds first AI minister stated that the United Arab Emirates is pursuing more than just economic gains in its quest to become a global leader in the field. The UAE’s minister of state for AI, Omar bin Sultan al-Olama, said “quality of life” considerations were key, and also stressed the importance of a “responsible” rollout—with impacts potentially reverberating for decades. “We are looking at AI as a tool,” he told AFP in an interview in Dubai. “It’s a tool that we need to use to unleash the quality of life…
Read MoreHow to teach new skills to robots?
A warehouse robot pulls mugs off a shelf and places them into boxes for delivery as e-commerce orders flood in. Everything runs smoothly until the warehouse undergoes a change, requiring the robot to grasp taller, narrower mugs that are stored upside down. Reprogramming that robot involves hand-labeling thousands of images that show it how to grasp these new mugs, then training the system all over again. However, MIT researchers have developed a novel technique that would just take a few human demonstrations to reprogram the robot. This machine-learning method enables…
Read MoreAn AI breakthrough in healthcare sector
LabGenius, an AI-driven scientific research firm, is using Graphcore’s IPUs (Intelligence Processing Units) to accelerate its drug discovery efforts. LabGenius is now working on developing new cancer and inflammatory disease medicines. For its potentially life-saving work, the company blends AI, lab automation, and synthetic biology. Until now, the company’s workloads were performed on standard GPUs. LabGenius claims that switching from Cirrascale Cloud Services to Graphcore’s IPUs in cloud instances lowered model training time from one month to around two weeks. “Previously we used GPUs and it took us about a…
Read MoreWhere will STEM education be in next 5 years?
There were over 8.6 million STEM jobs in 2015, and that number is rising exponentially. In fact, STEM jobs have grown twice as fast than any other field in the last 10 years. However, it is projected that 2.4 million STEM jobs will be unfilled by 2025. Yet, STEM education programs have not kept pace–calling into question whether there will be enough qualified employees available to take on these new positions. Worryingly, only 16% of high school graduates are proficient in STEM and interested in pursuing a STEM career. With…
Read MoreWhy these Malaysian companies are on the road to robotics
Earlier this year, Malaysian Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Ismail Sabri Yaakob, announced that the country is working on a National Robotics Roadmap (NRR) to increase national productivity by utilising robotics technology. According to Ismail Sabri, the goal is to reduce reliance on foreign labour and reduce the flow of foreign cash. According to a Bernama report, the government’s roadmap is to increase robot usage from 55 units per 10,000 workers in 2019 to 195 units per 10,000 workers by 2030. In addition, a MyDigital Catalytic Initiatives Task Force will be…
Read MoreHow to compete with robots?
When it comes to the future of intelligent robots, the first question people ask is often: how many jobs will they make disappear? Whatever the answer, the second question is likely to be: how can I make sure that my job is not among them? A team of EPFL roboticists and economists from the University of Lausanne just published a study in Science Robotics that answers both questions. They developed a method to calculate which of the already existing jobs are more likely to be performed by machines in the…
Read MoreAn artificial vision device for micro robots
Georgia State University (GSU) researchers have developed a ‘electric eye,‘ or artificial vision device, for micro-sized robots. The technology mimics the biochemical mechanisms that allow for vision in the natural environment by using synthetic ways. It advances prior research in colour recognition, which is a particularly tough area due to the difficulties of downscaling colour sensor devices. Traditional colour sensors take up a lot of room and aren’t very accurate when it comes to colour recognition. This was achieved through a unique vertical stacking architecture that offers a novel approach…
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