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IAM Robotics puts a unique spin on warehouse automation

Before robots get to do the fun stuff, they’re going to be tasked with all of the things humans don’t want to do. It’s a driving tenet of automation — developing robotics and AI designed to replace dull, dirty and dangerous tasks. It’s no surprise, then, that warehouses and fulfillment centers have been major drivers…

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BigMoney ETV

April 12, 2019 at 8:56 pm

Hey you did awesome on your video

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Tony Ray

April 12, 2019 at 9:27 pm

You can’t have a nation of people who do nothing but consume who do not work or produce anything. That’s called a parasite. There will be no need for your robots to stock any shelves or do anything at all if nobody is doing anything to earn money. If you just put them on universal basic income then it only proves that it’s all rigged anyway because you’re making money out of nothing. The robot doesn’t have a family and doesn’t need to sustain itself. People do. Stop making the world so easy because you’re making it weak. When it becomes too weak it becomes susceptible. This easy path is causing dependency and making people weak. You’re creating controlling mechanisms that is destroying the human race. Just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. Before long people won’t even have their own thought and will blindly accept whatever the AI tells them to. They won’t even know how to wipe their own ass because some robot will be doing it for them. At some point they will be like infants. What will you do with a bunch of infants who do nothing but consume at that point? Plug them in? Oh wait isn’t that what you’re doing now? You are not supposed to make the Matrix a documentary

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- jeffrey dahmere
  
  April 13, 2019 at 5:15 am
  
  +tokyo adventure the question is if people can learn to do that , most people can’t , and there is an other question , is this solution not like trying to kill a fly with an atomic bomb , those robots and technological resources could be use for task that humans can’t do and being more useful for society
  
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- tokyo adventure
  
  April 13, 2019 at 5:35 am
  
  +jeffrey dahmere true, but when industrial progress happened, some people could not adapt it, but some did… just like evolution… you need to evolve… Dinosaurs extincted, because they could not evolve (learn to live in a new environment)…
  
  People need to evolve to live in a changimg environment…
  
  Yes, robots could do what the people could not…
  
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- ForceOfWizardry
  
  April 21, 2019 at 12:43 am
  
  +tokyo adventure your argument is pretty shit. The problem is manual labor is the backbone of human society. Retail, fast food, waiter, cashier, manual labor, manufacturing jobs, truck driving etc. If these jobs are all taken away by robots/automation what are majority of people going to do? We can have five million jobs in manual labor/retail without saturation but can we have five million programmers/designers without saturation? Manual labor is where ALL the jobs are at. High skilled jobs will become saturated to shit of its the only jobs available in the future! Facebook employs 2K engineers, google 40K engineers while Walmart/McDonalds combined employs 4 million people!
  
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- tokyo adventure
  
  April 21, 2019 at 2:38 am
  
  +ForceOfWizardry When the industrial progress happened, old jobs disappeared and replaced by new jobs… people need to learb skills and technology… it created new jobs… it’s the same… when robots come, people will need to learn new skills and how to use these robots… for example, robot pilots, robot users, robot designers, robot producers, etc. You can even produce your own robots and let people rent them… it’s how the things in this world… when the printing invented, the people who wrote books disappered, replaced by people who were writers and use printing to make books… so, my argument is not shitty, this is a fact…
  
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ARTiFACT

April 13, 2019 at 10:14 am

ВАУУ…. да к нахер он нужен, если чувак потом играет роль этого же куска говна? кусок метали покрытый пластиком который перекладывает всякую херню с одного места в другое уже лет 10 существует на японских заводах, сколько можно этим “удивлять”?

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Lee Amra

April 13, 2019 at 8:00 pm

ok so what is new here???!!! this idea and technology has been around for decades!

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- Freddy Jones
  
  April 14, 2019 at 7:44 pm
  
  The internet,cell phones and computers have been too…However over time things become more refind.This robot can do warehouse work better than previous robots,which is the point
  
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- Lee Amra
  
  April 14, 2019 at 11:52 pm
  
  +Freddy Jones : you did not have to say that .. kind of obvious! but I can see that this robot requires perfectly calibrated environment … if this is correct, then it wouldn’t be very useful.
  
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Why the data center you dread might never even be built | Equity Podcast

The data center boom is running into serious real-world obstacles, from widespread local opposition and permitting delays to a scramble for electricity. Before those challenges even come into play, though, there’s a more basic problem: A lot of the projects being announced may never get built in the first place. With billions of dollars in…

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On this episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, hosts Rebecca Bellan and Tim De Chant are joined by Brent Nelson, senior managing director of markets and strategy at Ascend Analytics, to separate the data center projects that are likely to get built from the ones that may never get off the ground.

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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
2:20 Will the midterms and data center backlash slow the buildout?
5:33 Announced vs. actually built: the speculation problem
10:01 Who’s lending, and why tenants matter most
14:59 Powering data centers: why everyone defaults to gas
18:44 The case for curtailable interconnections plus batteries
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Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry. The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot directly, they were a…

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Democrats’ historic victories in this week’s U.S. midterm elections could also transform the tech industry.

The public voted on 41 data center-related ballot measures on Tuesday — in all but one, the majority voted to impose more restrictions on data center development. And even when data centers weren’t on the ballot directly, they were a major talking point, with newly-elected Democratic governors and congressmembers likely to support additional regulation.

On the latest episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Sean O’Kane, and Anthony Ha discuss what the election will mean for the tech industry moving forward — not just when it comes to data centers (which OpenAI is already trying to rebrand), but also increased government scrutiny of Big Tech.

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• Whether Google first satellite data center is ushering our orbital data center future
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What NBCUniversal’s investment in Indian microdrama startup Elo • Elo means for the media landscape

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0:47 Founder Summit recap and an Equity team update

2:23 Midterm results and the data center backlash

7:49 OpenAI rebrands data centers as “compute campuses”

10:57 Wall Street cools on the data center buildout

13:30 Regulatory certainty and building outside the U.S.

15:45 Canva and Squarespace layoffs

20:37 Can AI chatbots replace products like Squarespace?

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Why more women are leaving to start their own funds

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How diverse VC firms change which founders get funded

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What the $124 trillion wealth transfer could mean for women LPs

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Hosted by Isabelle Johannesen. Produced and edited by Maggie Nye. Audience development led by Morgan Little. Special thanks to the Foundry and Cheddar video teams.