Robotic Automation Emerges as a Threat to Traditional Low-Cost Outsourcing. Why outsource when you can automate?
For most organizations, the answer is IT bureaucracy. Budget bottlenecks and IT’s ability to convolute any process improvement with massive waterfall technology implementations, even when the need is immediate, make automation a challenge. Yet automation looms as the right solution for the majority of rules-driven processes that are being outsourced today. Augmented cognition. Augmented cognition (AugCog) is a research field at the frontier between human-computer interaction, psychology, ergonomics and neuroscience, that aims at creating revolutionary human-computer interactions.
The creation of such interactions stems from the ability of technology to measure human information processing and a user’s cognitive state. Various research projects aim at evaluating in real-time the cognitive state of a user, and this is most commonly evaluated by using either EEG or fNIR systems. Another main concept of AugCog is to design closed-loop systems to modulate information flow with respect to the user's cognitive capacity. The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has an AugCog research program. See also[edit] References[edit] Build Your Own Google Glass. Last April, Google announced Project Glass.
Its goal is to build a wearable computer that records your perspective of the world and unobtrusively delivers information to you through a head-up display. With Glass, not only might I share fleeting moments with the people I love, I’d eventually be able to search my external visual memory to find my misplaced car keys. Sadly, there is no release date yet. Monitor: March of the Lettuce Bot. Automatica 2012 presentation. Robotic Start-up Companies. Instructions: Use Google's directional and + and - markers on the left of the map to navigate and hone in on an area of interest (or double click near where you want to enlarge). Click on marker to get pop-up window with name, location and link to company's website.
Filter: This global map does not cover an additional 1,000+ Ancillary Businesses such as image systems, software developers, engineering and consulting firms, integrators and resellers, designers, servo, laser and stereo camera providers, etc. * Professional service robots - Continued Increase. * Industrial and service robotics in Europe - August 2011. * www.robotics-platform.eu/cms/upload/News/Pdf/2010-11-15_EC_DG_Industry_published_study_Robotics.pdf. Robotics Trends for 2012. What's in store for robotics in 2012?
Nearly a quarter of the year is already behind us, but we thought we'd spend some time looking at the months ahead and make some predictions about what’s going to be big in robotics. Or at least what we think is going to be big. Global Demand For Robotics To Surpass $30 Billion In 2016. ELECTRONICS.CA PUBLICATIONS, the electronics industry market research and knowledge network, announces the availability of a new report entitled "Robotics: Technologies and Global Markets".
Global demand for robotics will reach $21.8 billion in 2011. That value is projected to reach $30.1 billion in 2016, after increasing at a five-year compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6.7%. The global robotics market can be broken down into four regions that account for the sale of virtually all robots – Asia, North America, the European Union, and other markets. The Asian region, valued at $7.7 billion in 2011, is projected to reach $10.9 billion in 2016, yielding a CAGR of 7.2%. The North American region should be worth $4.9 billion in 2011, and in 2016 that value should reach $5.6 billion, a CAGR of 2.7%. Service Robotics Market (2012-2017) – Global Forecast & Assessment by Applications & Geography, Market Research Report :MarketsandMarekts. With the high adoption of service robotics systems in various professional and personal application areas, it is now expected that the demand in both these applications would transform the future of the service robotics market.
The global service robotics market is expected to grow from USD 6.97 Billion in 2014 to USD 18.02 Billion by 2020 at a CAGR of 17.36% between 2015 and 2020. The base year used for this study is 2014 and the forecast period is from 2015 to 2020. This report provides a detailed analysis of the market based on type, component, application, and geography. It has been estimated that the professional service robotics applications would hold a large share of the global market, in terms of value.
Countries Where Robots Are Taking Over. Robots are taking over factories around the world.
* Amazon buys Kiva for $775 mio. HP stirs more concerns with decline in printing. As if Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) didn't have enough problems with its lagging personal-computer business and admission it paid billions of dollars too much for software firm Autonomy, sales of printers -- long one of the Palo Alto tech giant's main revenue sources -- are shriveling.
HP executives insist printers, ink and related products will remain essential for businesses and many individuals. But people aren't printing as much as they used to, in part, according to some experts, because of smartphones and tablets, which enable vast amounts of information to be easily accessed from anywhere. And the experts predict the trend will increase, which could further threaten HP's bottom line. "They are in trouble over the long term," said Federico De Silva, a principal analyst at the Gartner market research firm. WTEC - Industrial, Service and Personal robots. The Robot Report - tracking the business of robotics. Statistics - IFR International Federation of Robotics. World Robotics 2013 Service Robots The total number of professional service robots sold in 2012 rose by a relatively low 2%compared to 2011 to 16,067 units up from 15,776 in 2011.
The sales value slightly decreased by 1%to US$3.42 billion. Final Report. EU: Roadmap for application of robotics in medicine and healthcare.