Adidas Robots, AI Humans, and Crowdfunding...

In this week's Brain Boost: Adidas' robots, AI and humans, and getting started with crowdfunding. Adidas' Robots Robotic manufacturing is going beyond cars for the first time. Adidas, the German sportswear company, announced that the first ever robotic reproduced shoe line will be available to customers in 2017 and, though Adidas is not aiming for full robotic automation, it is looking to learn more about the possibilities of robotic manufacturing, starting with this for a series of shoes. AI Humans However, on the other side of the Atlantic, the 2016 Exponential Manufacturing Conference wrapped up and one of the world's foremost data scientists, Professor Sandy Pentland of MIT, says that artificial intelligence is best used in collaboration with humans. Professor Pentland says that one of the most common challenges to large organizations is delivering the right information to the right people at the right time and he's proposing that software developers use artificial intelligence programs to predict who needs what data when and where and then use the internal computing systems to deliver key figures, best practices, etc. at the right time to the right people.