AI Articles and Analysis about Automation and robotics

Garment and textile manufacturing have historically been labor-intensive industries, as seen in how many of world’s largest fashion, clothing and apparel brands seem to have a significant portion of their products manufactured in Asian countries such as China, India, Bangladesh, Vietnam, etc.

Episode summary: This week on AI in Industry, we speak to Rana el Kaliouby, Co-founder and CEO of Affectiva about how machine vision can be applied to detecting human emotion - and the business value of emotionally aware machines.

Over the past decade, the industrial sector has seen major advancements in automation and robotics applications. Automation in both continuous process and discrete manufacturing, as well as the use of robots for repetitive tasks are both relatively standard in most large manufacturing operations (this is especially true in industries like automotive and electronics).

In this episode of AI in Industry, we speak with Brendan Kohler, the CTO of Co-founder of Boston-based startup Sentenai. Brendan speaks about how businesses today can effectively leverage the data being collected by their existing IoT and automation systems. Though example applications and use-cases, Brendan elaborates on what kinds businesses might use this technology today and what they can expect in the near future.

Relative to banking, finance or healthcare, construction is still a small market for artificial intelligence and emerging applications are focused on finding patterns in large datasets which would either be too difficult for humans to process or would take them too long. Over the course of this article, we aim to answer the following questions:

Episode summary: In this week’s episode of AI in Industry we speak with Rodney Brooks, Founder and CTO of Rethink Robotics, a collaborative robot manufacturer founded in Boston in 2008. Rodney explores robotic safety regulations and he also paints a picture of what robots might be capable of in the next five years.

This year has been marked by an increase in artificial intelligence interest from new business sectors. Just one years ago, we hardly had any visitors or subscribers from the food services sector - and this year we have a strong interest from food processing and food services leaders, which has come as a surprise.

The number of persons aged 60 or above is expected to grow from 962 million globally in 2017 to 2.1 billion in 2050 and 3.1 billion in 2100, according to a United Nations report. In the United states alone, the healthcare industry employs over 4.5 million nursing aides and orderlies and home health aides and personal care aides.