Tag: robots
Robots seen complementing, not replacing, workers
Manufacturers in Rhode Island who are looking for greater efficiency and productivity are turning to automated machines and programmable robots, but the technology creates...
OSHA seeks info on control-circuit devices, robot-interaction risks
PROVIDENCE – The federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration is looking for information to potentially update its Control of Hazardous Energy Lockout/Tagout standard, the...
Air Strike robotics team finishes fourth at FIRST World Championship
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island and Massachusetts high school students from the Air Strike robotics team who competed in the FIRST World Championship robotics competition...
Medrobotics founder wins Engelberger award for educational leadership
RAYNHAM – The Robotics Industries Association selected Howie Choset, founder and acting chief technology officer of Medrobotics of Raynham, for a 2019 Englberger Robotics...
Protecting workers from robots
Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and one of the pioneers of the World Wide Web, once declared that the spread of computers and the internet...
Haiat awarded internship to study underwater robotics in California
SOUTH KINGSTOWN – University of Rhode Island junior and marine biology major Karla Haiat has been awarded the opportunity to study at the Monterey...
Marcum automates operations with bot technology
PROVIDENCE – In an effort to reduce costs and improve efficiency, the accounting firm Marcum LLP has started offering clients new robotic technology to...
Robots don’t take jobs, but turn manufacturers into educators
For years, we’ve heard about the shortage of labor in advanced manufacturing, with technological skills now the must-have labor asset for any company that...
Companies realize they need to train
The growing use of robots in manufacturing cuts the number of human employees a company requires. But at the same time, running robots is...
A robot revolution is coming
Amid all the fear of robots taking human jobs, skeptical voices have been asking: Where are these robots? Machine-learning systems – commonly marketed as...
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