Page 5 - Robots

Maid to order: Robotic vacuums that do a great job cleaning your house

Consistent, never on leave, working without supervision. Corona times have led to spurt in automated devices that mop, scrub and vacuum your house unobtrusively

Smart games, AI & robots can revive the toy industry

New toy makers can now deploy emerging technologies. They don't have to worry about legacy investments, since most were importing from China and not manufacturing

After robots, Bengal plans to procure drones for better fire fighting

West Bengal fire services department is contemplating to procure drones after acquiring four robots as a better fire fighting gear, state minister Sujit Bose said on Friday. These four robots would be used in situations where it is too dangerous for fire brigade personnel to venture or in places not accessible to them, the fire and emergency services minister said. West Bengal is the only state that has four such robots, he said. "Now, the department is planning to introduce drones," the minister said at a valedictory session of the Safety Symposium & Exposition organised by Confederation of Indian Industry (CII). Fire audits are conducted regularly in the state, he said. Bose said that fire services department personnel also helped in the sanitisation and fumigation of COVID hospitals, quarantine centres and administrative offices across the state during the pandemic.

Milagrow expects 15-20-fold growth in robot sales in FY21 due to Covid-19

The company has its own assembly plant in Gurgaon. Milagrow has provided robots to hospitals like AIIMS, Medanta etc during the lockdown period

ABB India opens new robotic solution delivery facility in Bengaluru

Engineering major ABB India on Friday said that it has opened a new robotics facility to support the digital transformation of manufacturing in India.

From meal delivery to patrolling, Milagrow's new humanoid robots do it all

These robots include RoboDiCaprio, RoboJulia, RoboNano and RoboElf - which are specially designed to cater to hotels, hospitals, restaurants and corporate offices

RPF deploys multi-purpose robot to screen passengers amid Covid-19 outbreak

The robot, named Captain ARJUN, acronym for "always be responsible and just use to be nice", displays the temperature in a panel with a response time of 0.5 seconds, said a CR release

Service robots may increase efficiency of Covid-19 impacted hotels: Report

The researchers noted that their project completed in March 2020 just as Covid-19 broke out and as the virus rendered non-essential travel impossible

Robots expected to play a key role in post-Covid world, say experts

Hospitals and healthcare centres have started deploying robots and automated guided vehicles

Robots to stethoscope: Institutes, start-ups develop tech to fight Covid-19

IIT Roorkee and Kanpur have developed low-cost portable ventilators

Delhi students build robot to aid health workers in fight against Covid-19

Taking cue from countries like China, Thailand and Israel where a remotely-controlled robots tend patients, three Class XII students of Delhi schools have come up with their own Robot Prithvi.

Robots help combat Covid-19 in world, and maybe soon in India too

Robots are being used for jobs such as sanitising hospitals and delivering food and medicines in many parts of the world

Robots and AI can help fight corona

AI and robotics for public health is a real need and has demonstrated great value.

Here's why automation of jobs is very bad news for millennial workers

Should governments respond by dissuading innovation?

Year Ahead 2020: Top 6 most promising gadgets to look out for next year

From OnePlus 'Concept One' smartphone to Microsoft Xbox Series X, Business Standard lists top 6 gadgets that we should look forward to in the new year

Robotics automation firms may not hold on to their high valuations for long

For instance, intense competition from global tech giants such as Microsoft, IBM apart from IT services firms is likely to change the RPA landscape. This, in turn, will lead to dilution in valuation

In India's robotic surgeries market, da Vinci set to carve out a place

Minimally invasive, these procedures drastically reduce the healing time

Robots could be trained to recognise human emotions, finds study

The study was conducted by researchers form Warwick Business School, University of Plymouth, Donders Centre for Cognition at Radboud University in the Netherlands, and the Bristol Robotics Lab

Rail coach making gets a hand from robots; MCF beats expectations

MCF and its design consultant Ircon have drawn a roadmap to transform the Raebareli unit into the world's largest coach factory

Robotic process automation helping organisations to stay competitive

The report found that RPA has become a buzzworthy solution for organisations