The just-issued World Robotics Report announced an all-time high of 517,385 new industrial robots installed in 2021 in factories around the world, representing 31% year-on-year growth. That brought the current stock of operational robots around the globe to about 3.5 million, a new record. Toyota has created a 6-foot-10-inch basketball-shooting robot named Cue that uses sensors on its ... [ ] torso to judge the distance and angle of the basket and uses motorized arms and knees to execute set shots. This robot record was reached half a century after the development of SHAKEY, the world's first "mobile intelligent robot." According to the 2017 IEEE Milestone citation, it "could perceive its surroundings, infer implicit facts from explicit ones, create plans, recover from errors in plan execution, and communicate using ordinary English. SHAKEY's software architecture, computer vision, and methods for navigation and planning proved seminal in robotics and in the design of web servers, automobiles, factories, video games, and Mars rovers."

Science-fiction movies and stories have always been the inspiration for technological innovations. Since the creation of the first robot, robot software is tremendously evolved and now it is aimed at developing artificial intelligence (AI) driven robots. In the simplest term, a robot is a machine interacting with physical things with software at its core. Software and robot work hand in hand, which means robots cannot perform any task without coded computer commands. Such a set of commands are called robot software.

BOSTON--In July 2018, Curtis Berlinguette, a materials scientist at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, realized he was wasting his graduate student's time and talent. He had asked her to refine a key material in solar cells to boost its electrical conductivity. But the number of potential tweaks was overwhelming, from spiking the recipe with traces of metals and other additives to varying the heating and drying times. "There are so many things you can go change, you can quickly go through 10 million [designs] you can test," Berlinguette says. So he and colleagues outsourced the effort to a single-armed robot overseen by an artificial intelligence (AI) algorithm.

When Neha Samad, who works as a senior operator at New Engineering Works' factory in Jamshedpur, was asked to train a robot to carry out maintenance of the automated machine she works with, she felt empowered, not threatened. "Before collaborative robots were introduced on the factory floor, we had to stand for more than eight hours to operate our machines and we did all the physical work, like loading and unloading components on the conveyer belt," she says. The chief executive officer of the company, Divesh Debuka, introduced "cobots", small collaborative robots by Universal Robots, in the factory three years ago to make output more efficient. Samad adapted, learnt and quickly figured how to give instructions to the cobot and make it do the physical part of her job. Her daily job, like the other human operators in the factory, became overseeing and operating machines and the cobots and keeping a tab on quality.

There's a lot of excitement about what artificial intelligence (AI) can do in manufacturing. Depending on what you read – and choose to believe about what you read – AI-driven robots are able to autonomously make decisions about what work gets done, how it gets done and who does it or there are decades of work yet to be done before we see a material impact. Personally, I think we're somewhere in the middle, as manufacturers – pragmatists that they are – design and implement manufacturing strategies in a very deliberate way to achieve business requirements and then focus ongoing efforts to make key processes better and better. And I think that collaborative robots (cobots) will play a larger and larger role in accelerating progress. The AI that cobots possess makes them so much more than just machines for dirty, dull and dangerous work.

Cash will be used for "adding value" to sectors like finance using AI The Taiwanese Ministry of Science and Technology has put its money where its mouth is to make a mark on the world of artificial intelligence (AI) with a TND $16 billion ($527 million) investment, reports Telecoms.com The AI craze is very quickly gathering pace in every aspect of our lives, and those at the top of the pile will be sitting on mountains of cash before too long. Like Amazon Web Services' (AWS) rise to power through the normalisation of cloud computing, AI has the potential to create more global technology super powers, and the Taiwanese government wants to clamber into the race. According to the China Post, the AI development plan will come from Taiwan's flagship infrastructure bill and the Cabinet's annual budget, aiming to create a series of research labs across the country. The focal point will be an AI manufacturing base in Central Taiwan Science Park, set to open in September, as well as an AI development centre in Southern Taiwan Science Park imminently.

Artificial intelligence technology are looking for ways to transform the fast food industry and KFC introduces this innovation in its new store branch in Shanghai, China. Artificial intelligence (AI) first emerged in the late 1940s. But today, AI is transforming most if not all industries, including the foodservice industry. In fact, a company called Momentum Machines has created an AI-driven robot that can make one burger from scratch every 10 seconds in an hour. Artificial intelligence technology are looking for ways to transform the fast food industry and KFC introduces this innovation in its new store branch in Shanghai, China.