Finance Transformation Europe - The Future of Finance: Hardly a Human in Sight. Driven by technology as a game changer and talent as a differentiator, companies are recognizing Finance as the source of their competitive edge. “Consumers are leading the way in adopting automation solutions in their private lives. With any luck, businesses will, eventually, follow.” That is a view of Erik van der Steen a CFO specialized in transformations who is currently the Global Head of Finance at APM Terminals, a Maersk subsidiary and one of the world’s largest port and terminal operators. Please note: That all fields marked with an asterisk (*) are required. First Name * Please enter your first name Last Name * Please enter your last name Job Title * Please enter your job title Company Name * Please enter your company name Email Address * Please enter a valid email address Telephone * Please enter your telephone number Country * Please choose your country Where did you hear about us?
In the future, will robots fight wars? By getting robots to dream, they can become even better soccer players than humans. Or sci-fi killer machines Imagine a robot with wheels. It drives around with confidence because it knows all the terrains on the planet. It perceives it's surroundings with acute precision, it understands different textures and it sees through walls. The field of robotics is in rapid development. "The atomic bomb was a revolution. If robots could dream The biggest challenge to robotic warfare is shared with many humans: They need situational awareness. "Now you can get a robot to work around the house. Researchers still need to develop and refine skills such as perception and intelligence. Managing disaster To be fully efficient in warfare, robots need one ability that humans have.
But development is going fast, especially in the US, and it is well funded. However, using them in aggressive warfare comes with countless ethical dilemmas of course. Military surveillance, measuring, handling traffic. There is no war other than the one we are fighting with ourselves. Just five years ago, anybody who spoke of technological unemployment was labeled a luddite, a techno-utopian, or just simply someone who doesn’t understand economics.
Today things are very different – anybody from New York Times columnist Tom Friedman to CBS are jumping on the bandwagon. This post is part of Robohub’s Jobs Focus. Those of us who have been speaking about the tremendous impact of automation in the workforce know very well that this isn’t a fad about to pass, but that it’s a problem that will only exacerbate in the future. Most of us agree on what the problem is (exponential growth of high-tech replacing humans faster and faster), and we agree that education will play a crucial role; but very few seem to suggest that we should use this opportunity to re-think our entire economic system and what the purpose of society should be. Well, I do. I challenge the assumption that we should live to work, and even that we should work to live, for that matter. 3D-printed cyborg muscle produces artificial heartbeat.
Sandrine Ceurstemont, editor, New Scientist TV You might expect a robot's heartbeat to be a metallic ticking. But the pulsing in this video isn't completely artificial: it's powered by living material. Created by Peter Walters from the University of the West of England in Bristol, UK, and colleagues, the pump uses the gas released by live yeast to generate pressure and distend a membrane, turning it into an artificial muscle. A valve - activated by electricity produced by a microbial fuel cell - controls the movement of the membrane. Walters says that using yeast allows a lot of pressure to be generated quickly. Getting rid of the waste that the yeast produces is also a challenge.
A 3D printer created the rigid components of the system as well as the moulds for the flexible silicone parts. In the future, the robotic pulsing could be used in art and design. Japanese scientists develop robots to help Fukushima clean-up.