In this episode, join our interviewer Andrew Vaziri at Promat 2019, the largest expo for manufacturing and supply chain professionals in North and South America. Andrew interviews a handful of companies which provide warehouse fulfillment robots that can autonomous pick and place items. Our guests explain how advances in AI have made autonomous picking possible. They also talk about the unique technologies they use to stand out in a crowded field of competing products.

Daniel McCann, founder of 5Thru, became frustrated with waiting in growing drive-thru lines -- sometimes 15 cars deep -- to buy his morning coffee. As a payments expert, he knew that payments at the window take 23 to 25 seconds to process in addition to cook times, which adds up quickly if there is a line. Instead of waiting, he would often have to forgo the drive-thru and head to the office without his caffeine fix. He thought there had to be a better way. "Drive-thrus are one of those things that are still being done today as they were 50 years ago," McCann told Restaurant Dive.

San Francisco: Growing at 49.7 per cent during 2019-2026, the global Artificial Intelligence in healthcare market is expected to reach over $8 billion by 2026, according to a new forecast. The Asia Pacific is the fastest growing market owing to the huge untapped opportunity in this region, said the report by market research firm Acumen Research and Consulting. AI could have far-reaching effects on healthcare by helping in the detection of diseases and continuous monitoring of the conditions. The US commands the largest share in global AI in the healthcare market owing to the increasing adoption and awareness about AI technology, said the report. Inc., IBM Corporation, AMD, NVIDIA Corp., Oracle Corp. are offering AI-based services.

A dog-like robot being developed to hop across complex terrain on other planets has been used to play a live-action game of ping pong in its latest phase of testing. Scientists mounted the SpaceBok sideways onto a free-floating platform to mimic a zero gravity environment in two dimensions. They moved themselves side to side with a panel for the robot to bounce from. A reaction wheel helps the robot stabilise itself, swivelling 180 degrees mid-jump to position its feet on to the panel and push onto the opposite side. A dog-like robot being developed to hop across complex terrain on other planets has been used to play a live-action game of ping pong in its latest phase of testing.

India's space agency is preparing to launch its ambitious Chandrayaan-2 mission next week which is set to land near the currently unexplored south pole of the moon. Chandrayaan-2 will blast off from the Satish Dhawan Space Center at Sriharikota on the country's south west coast at 2.51am (10.21pm It is the Indian Space Research Organisation's (ISRO) second lunar probe, and the first one destined to land on the moon, and is scheduled to land on September 6. India will become only the fourth country, after the US, Russia and China, to reach Earth's satellite if successful. The ISRO has said it chose to explore the south pole as it is possible there is water in the permanently shadowed areas, which could pave the way for future lunar habitation.

Playing video games like Minecraft may help to get your child's creative juices flowing, new research suggests. Video games that foster creative freedom can increase creativity under certain conditions, according to a study from Iowa State University (ISU). Their experiment compared the effect of playing Minecraft, with or without instruction, to watching a TV show or playing a race car video game. Those given the freedom to play Minecraft without instruction were most creative, experts found. Playing video games like Minecraft may help to get the creative juices flowing, new research suggests.

According to one futurist, the next frontier for human innovation is the body itself. In a talk at Fast Company's European Innovation Festival, historian and international bestselling author, Yuval Noah Harari, said that the human body is on a crash course with technology. 'It's increasingly hard to tell where I end and where the computer begins,' Harari said, as reported by Fast Company. In the future, humans and technology will be impossible to differentiate from one another says one prominent futurist. Yuval Noah Harari (pictured, file photo) spoke recently during Fast Company's European Innovation Festival'In the future, it is likely that the smartphone will not be separated from you at all,' Harari said.

Zongfu Yu at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and his colleagues have created a glass artificial intelligence that uses light to recognise and distinguish between images. What's more, the glass AI doesn't need to be powered to operate. The proof-of-principle glass AI that Yu's team created can distinguish between handwritten single digit numbers. It can also recognise, in real time, when a number it is presented with changes – for instance, when a 3 is altered to an 8. The AI works by taking advantage of small bubbles deliberately incorporated into the glass, as well as embedded impurities such as graphene. As the light waves reflected off the handwritten numbers pass through the glass AI, they are bent in specific ways by the bubbles and impurities.

The Nintendo Switch has a couple of ways to back-up, archive, and delete your games. You don't have to truly delete titles you may be bored of as you may want to play again at a later time. Nintendo is moving some production of its Switch video game console out of China. The Kyoto, Japan-headquartered game company, which until now has produced all Nintendo Switch consoles in China, said the move was not because of concern for potential U.S. tariffs on products made in China. "For the past several years, we have been exploring options for assembling product in Vietnam to diversify our manufacturing options," the company said in a statement to USA TODAY.

Classic cartoon-inspired video game'Cuphead,' made for Xbox One, PCs and Nintendo Switch will become a TV series on Netflix. Cuphead is making the move to Netflix. The acclaimed side-scrolling video game "Cuphead," inspired by cartoon classics of the Thirties, will become an animated Netflix TV series called "The Cuphead Show," the online video provider announced Tuesday. Like the video game, the TV comedy will star Cuphead and his brother Mugman. In the game, they have made a deal with the devil and must do his bidding.