Société Générale donne le départ à sa plateforme blockchain | Les Echos Loveable Just By Being There. Behind the Development of LOVOT, a Robot Designed to Make People Happy. | BRIDGINE A robot that is not exactly useful,but whose mere presence makes people happy. ─ I just got to hug a LOVOT. And was surprised at how the robot was slightly warm to the touch. Hayashi : Indeed it is. Just like how we introduce the LOVOT as “a new home robot that stirs your instinct to love” on our website, not only does the robot warm your soul, you can actually feel warmth from its body. ─It actually responds to your touch, wherever you touch it. Hayashi : Its has over 50 sensors on its surface, so it will respond wherever you touch it. Tanaka : In addition, the robot will happily come and greet you when you come home late at night and will remember the faces of people who were affectionate or took care of them. ─So it is immediately apparent who most took care of them (laughs). Hayashi : Indeed it is. Mr.Hayashi, development manager of LOVOT and CEO of GROOVE X ─How did you come up with the idea for a robot that is “not useful but endearing,” and is “loveable just by being there?”
Les origines du Covid-19 - Infos coronavirus Publié le : 07/04/2020 - 00:04Modifié le : 07/04/2020 - 16:03 Aucun continent n’est aujourd’hui épargné par le Covid-19. Pourtant, l’épidémie a démarré il y a peu de temps. Alors que sait-on de l’origine du virus aujourd’hui, d’où est-il parti ? On l’a découvert d’abord en Chine, à Wuhan, berceau de l'épidémie. Le virus Covid-19 a été détecté en tant que tel sur le marché de Wuhan, en Chine, lieu à partir duquel il s’est répandu. « Ce qui est sûr, c’est qu’on trouve chez la chauve-souris un virus très proche à 96%, donc la chauve-souris peut être un réservoir de ce virus. Le pangolin serait donc l’hôte intermédiaire, mais on ne croise pas des pangolins à tous les coins de rue, même en Chine. Le pangolin est un animal en voie d’extinction, on ne devrait pas le croiser du tout en ville, mais c’est le mammifère le plus vendu illégalement dans le monde. De de façon surprenante, les contacts entre humains et animaux sont de plus en plus étroits. Notre sélection sur le coronavirus SARS-CoV-2
Building brands in emerging markets As the rapid growth of emerging markets gives millions of consumers new spending power, those consumers are encountering a marketing environment every bit as complex and swiftly evolving as its counterpart in developed countries. Product choices and communication channels are exploding; so is the potential of digital platforms; and, as everywhere, consumer empowerment is on the rise. The impact of these changes has been so profound in developed markets that three years ago, our colleague David Court and his coauthors proposed a new approach for understanding consumer behavior. On the basis of research involving 20,000 consumers across five industries and three continents, our colleagues suggested replacing the traditional metaphor of a “funnel” in which consumers start at the wide end, with a number of potential brands in mind, before narrowing their choices down to a final purchase. We strive to provide individuals with disabilities equal access to our website.
Thales : accélérer l'innovation par la plateforme digitale, Viva Technology En quoi la plateforme digitale aide-t-elle Thales et ses clients à se transformer ? Olivier Flous : La plateforme digitale permet d’innover beaucoup plus rapidement qu’à l’époque du hardware avec ses contraintes de temps et de production. Nous nous appuyons désormais sur les services du cloud pour concevoir nos produits et solutions. La plateforme digitale donne accès à de nombreuses fonctionnalités associées et à une formidable puissance de calcul. C’est également un outil flexible qui favorise le travail collaboratif. Les technologies clés de Thales se retrouvent-elles sur la plateforme digitale ? O.F. : En plus des services « standards », nous proposons un éventail de solutions technologiques propres à Thales : en complément des services de cyber sécurité déjà évoqués, nous proposons des briques à forte valeur ajoutée sur les objets connectés, le big data et l’intelligence artificielle. Quels sont les autres avantages de la plateforme digitale ?
Prediction: Sex Robots Are The Most Disruptive Technology We Didn't See Coming Brick Dollbanger At first glance, Harmony looks a bit like a chatbot got trapped inside an anatomically correct, life-size Barbie. But on closer inspection, it’s hard to shake the feeling that sex robots have the potential to thoroughly disrupt how we interact with technology, as well as how we interact with each other–and whether some not-insignificant portion of the population will opt out of interacting with humans altogether. The sex robot creator “I never set out with these specific goals in mind. McMullen began working with silicone prosthetics as a special effects artist in the later part of the last century. My background was special effects and animatronics so I was always interested in potentially animating the dolls. Artificial intelligence (AI) learning about the socially guarded side of humanity One of the challenges of teaching an artificially intelligent robot about people is that humans are careful about revealing or withholding our true selves.
Sylvain Tesson : “Les prophètes de l'après sont des plaisantins !” Voyageur insatiable, homme du mouvement, vous avez passé votre vie à courir autour du monde, à parcourir les grands espaces. Et pourtant, dans la Panthère des neiges, vous faites l’éloge de l’immobilité comme écrin de la patience. Qu’avez-vous découvert ? L’immobilité, le silence, le repli, ce que Montaigne dans ses Essais appelle l’art de « se ranger et se circonscrire » est une jouvence si on le vit de son plein gré. Qu’est-ce que la patience ? La patience, c’est la modestie. Jusqu’ici, je ne tenais pas en place. En quoi cette crise bouleverse-t-elle notre rapport (malade) au temps ? Elle bouleverse surtout notre « rapport malade » à l’autorité et au bien commun. Why Are Businesses Shifting Focus to Emerging Markets? | HuffPost In 2013, McKinsey & Company predicted that by 2025 almost 230 Fortune Global 500 companies would be based in cities in the emerging markets. Whilst I can’t yet comment on whether this prediction is likely to come true, it is interesting to look at how companies are shifting their focus to these developing countries. As the economies of underdeveloped countries evolve, businesses have reason to be extremely enthusiastic. A number of these developing markets are recognized in the newly designated economic groupings of increased interest, including the PINE economies (the Philippines, Indonesia, Nigeria and Ethiopia) and the MINTs - Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey. Nigeria and Indonesia, included in both groupings, are predicted to be bigger than the UK and France by 2030 (when measuring GDP in PPP terms). Help us tell more of the stories that matter from voices that too often remain unheard. Geographically and socioeconomically, these countries can’t be ignored!
Le message de Jimmy Carter à Donald Trump : "Savez-vous pourquoi la Chine est en train de nous dépasser ?" Le week-end dernier, le président Trump a appelé l’ex-président Carter pour s’entretenir avec lui du problème chinois. Et voici les propos que Jimmy Carter tint en retour à Donald Trump : « Vous craignez que la Chine nous passe devant, et je suis d’accord avec vous. J’ai normalisé les relations diplomatiques avec Pékin en 1979. Les États-Unis sont la nation la plus belliqueuse de l’histoire du monde, parce qu’ils désirent imposer des valeurs américaines aux autres pays. Combien de kilomètres de chemin de fer à grande vitesse avons-nous dans ce pays ? Et si on avait pris 3 000 milliards pour les mettre dans les infrastructures américaines, nous aurions un chemin de fer à grande vitesse. => Source : WABE (traduction : Bruno Guigne)
Will we ever have robot carers? - BBC Future Films like Robot and Frank and I, Robot, as well as animated television shows like The Jetsons, have portrayed a future where robotic servants undertake household chores, allowing families to spend more time together and for elderly people to remain independent for longer. A future of robotic carers is closer than we may realise. Robotic vacuum cleaners and lawn mowers are already available while there has been a massive uptake of assistive technologies for elder care in Japan. Middlesex University’s robot Pepper recently appeared before a parliamentary select committee in the UK to answers questions about the role of robots in education. Carer robots, on the other hand, are a relatively recent phenomenon. You might also like: Whilst the current assistive technologies are still a far cry from a future where our meals cooked for us and all household our chores are completed for us, they offer a tantalising glimpse of a possible future.
Bourdin Direct - La Chine ment-elle sur sa responsabilité? "Est-ce qu'on va avoir un Covid-20? un Covid-21?" The emerging-brand battle - Schumpeter THE past 20 years have seen a massive redistribution of economic power to the emerging world. But so far there has been no comparable redistribution of brand power. Fortune magazine’s 2012 list of the largest 500 companies by sales revenue included 73 Chinese firms, more than from any other country except the United States, with 132. Yet Interbrand’s 2012 list of the 100 “best global brands” included not one Chinese firm. However, in “Brand Breakout”, a new book, two academics, Nirmalya Kumar and Jan-Benedict Steenkamp, argue that developing-country firms are swiftly learning the art of branding. A few emerging-market brands have already gone global: it is hard to watch a football match in Europe without having “Emirates” burned onto your retina. Get our daily newsletter Upgrade your inbox and get our Daily Dispatch and Editor's Picks. The authors argue that emerging-market companies are advancing along eight paths to brand success. A third path is to follow diasporas.
Pourquoi il faut poser des questions bêtes - Simplement dans le bon sens En entreprise, je pense que nous devrions uniquement nous concentrer sur deux aspects: 1. Simplifier nos modes de gestion. 2. Ce travail n’est ni amusant ni excitant. Les gens intelligents veulent travailler sur des choses intéressantes, et manque de chance, les deux principes évoqués ci-dessus ne répondent pas souvent à cette exigence … En général les sujets qui nous préoccupent sont plutôt de cet ordre : « Quand allons-nous robotiser l’usine intégralement ? « Pourquoi on n’utilise pas encore un serveur dans le cloud ? « Nous allons revoir toute la charte graphique de l’entreprise » Se concentrer sur la valeur ajoutée Concentrez-vous sur ce qui construit votre entreprise et non sur ce qui est intellectuellement satisfaisant. Tout le monde veut se sentir intelligent, surtout quand il s’agit d’impressionner les autres. Les bons managers s’attachent à ce que leur équipe fournisse la majorité de la valeur de l’entreprise. Poser des questions bêtes 1. « Rappelle-moi, pourquoi sommes-nous ici ?
What we can learn about robots from Japan - BBC Future When some engineers moved from making functional, industrial robots to humanoid robots that interacted with people, Japan’s particular history likely coloured how they were perceived. In 1649, the military rulers of Japan prohibited using technology to develop new weapons, to prevent the rise of new rivals, according to research by Cosima Wagner, a researcher at Freie Universität in Berlin. So artisans focused on more innocuous creations, such as mechanical dolls that performed in puppet theaters or served real tea in real teacups. When Japan finally opened up to foreign contact over two centuries later, those skilled toy developers led the way in adapting Western technology for more practical uses. ‘Uncanny valley’ Though proto-robots went out of fashion during Japan’s rapid 20th-Century modernisation, the idea of mechanical beings as amusements may have lingered in the national consciousness.