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What is the difference between robotics and automation?
Automation and robotics: the two terms are playing an increasingly important role in intralogistics. But how are they different? Simplexity...
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How will automation take hospital logistics to the next level?
Industrial players have already witnessed large advances in automation in recent years. Now, these technologies are beginning to make significant...
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The COVID-19 Catalyst: Why the Coronavirus pandemic has sparked an automation revolution in retail
The world has changed irreversibly for every business in every sector this year, perhaps none more so than in retail....
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Supply chains and COVID-19 – Part 1: How are supply chains changing and how can they be made more secure?
First there were delivery bottlenecks in China. Then changes in consumer behavior. Then lockdowns across the globe. The coronavirus pandemic...
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What are… AMRs?
AMRs, i.e. autonomous mobile robots, move goods from A to B within warehouses – with great precision, and fully independently....
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Lidar sensors: a game-changer for self-driving vehicles?
Times are fast and furious for robotics specialists in the auto industry: Munich-based start-up Blickfeld has recently won the German...
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How can AI help contain the new coronavirus?
The novel coronavirus has spread ruthlessly and relentlessly from Asia, to Europe, to the USA and beyond. Across the globe,...
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The past, present and future of robotics: Five questions for Dominik Bösl
Where is robotics headed? The scenarios range from malignant domination over humankind to loyal butlers in machine form, to friendly...
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What is… “machine learning”?
Machine learning is a subset of artificial intelligence (AI). It describes the process of machines generating artificial knowledge (i.e. data...
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What impact will robots have on the role of humans in the world of work?
Film franchises such as Star Wars and Star Trek have often portrayed robots – and not just as technical helpers...
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