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Champlain Towers Collapse Demonstrates Need for Disaster-Response Robots, Says Expert

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…and engineering at Texas A&M University. “We need to get tools in the hands of the people who should be using them, in the first wave of emergency responders.” Murphy is an Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) fellow, and director of the Humanitarian Robotics and AI Laboratory. She has spoken about the…

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Createc to Create Custom Integrations for Boston Dynamics’ Spot Robot

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Boston Dynamics' Spot robot is continuing to find uses around the world. U.K.-based Createc, which provides systems to the civil nuclear, defense, rail, marine, and security markets, last week announced that it will serve as technical integrator and commercial reseller for Boston Dynamics. “We are very positive about the future for robotics for nuclear decommissioning and collaborating with a company…

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RobotLAB and SoftBank Robotics America Partner to Offer Pepper, NAO, and Whiz in North America

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…RobotLAB has provided schools and universities with AI LABs equipped with technologies to empower educators and engage students with robotics, coding, and programming skills. The company said it also offers a clear pathway to successful integration of robots in banks, restaurants, hospitals, hotels, senior living facilities, and other enterprise and small businesses settings. To meed different companies' needs, RobotLab is…

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Boston Micro Fabrication Uses Light Focusing Method to 3D Print Tiny Parts

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…that power our world. Enter Boston Micro Fabrication (BMF). The company was co-founded by Nicholas Fang in 2016 to improve the resolution and precision of 3D printing. Today, BMF is helping customers in the race toward ever smaller parts by offering new kinds of printers that are being used to make electronics, medical devices, microfluidic chips, and more. The company’s…

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When Robotics Intersect a Pandemic

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…founder of Delphi Group, a Boston-based think-tank that advises Fortune 500 companies and governments on future trends. He is the author of “Reimagining Health Care” (Post Hill Press, May 2020). “The challenge in talking about the use of robots in health care is not so much a technical one as it is a very human challenge of perception, emotions and…

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3D Printing Fix for Medical Supply Shortages

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…chain—and more help is needed. Universities (and some high schools, and individuals working in livings and garages) across the country have converted their engineering departments and 3D print labs into make-shift factories for churning out PPE. On-demand manufacturing and prototyping operations, as well as manufacturers of other types of products, have converted all or part of their capacity to address…

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3D Printing Start-up Fortify Secures $10M in Series A Funding Led By Accel

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Fortify, a Boston-based additive manufacturing start-up and pioneer in digital composite manufacturing (DCM), announced it has closed a $10M Series A funding led by Accel with additional participation from Neotribe, Prelude Ventures and Mainspring Capital Partners. The funding will support the launch of Fortify’s Discovery Partner Program and the growth of the Fortify team. This follows a previous seed round…

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Rise of Robots Will Change Future Jobs Reports

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…is the Charles W. Eliot University Professor and President Emeritus at Harvard University The National Bureau of Economic Research found that manufacturing industries use 80 percent of the industrial robots in the US. And more upheaval could be on the way, making those recent solid manufacturing numbers in the jobs report look like a blip on the radar. Boston Consulting…

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