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Category: Industrial
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AI Voices Should Sound Robotic Again: A Simple Solution
Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new
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Strategic corporate social responsibility can create social, economic value
Strategic corporate social responsibility (CSR) efforts that are directly related to a hospitality company’s core business operations and competencies can help companies create both social and business value, according to researchers in the Penn…
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Vacations are good for employee well-being, and the effects are long lasting
If you’re like many Americans, you probably didn’t take all your vacation time this past year. Even if you did, it’s highly likely you didn’t fully unplug while off the clock.
But you might want to change that if you want to improve your health…
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DARPA Project Reveals Humans Can Control Dozens of Robots
This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.
Swarms of autonomous robots are increasingly being tested and deployed in complex missions, yet a certain level of human oversight during these…
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DEEP Robotics Quadruped, Agility Digit, and More
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
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UMaine-led team develops more holistic way to monitor lobster industry
Maine’s lobster fishery — one that supports thousands of jobs statewide — is extensively monitored. Management efforts are informed by biological monitoring surveys observing changes in abundance and distribution of the lobster population, and…
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Why are most companies failing to benefit from AI? It’s about the people not the tech
Successful uptake of new technology is a matter of emotions — and with 4 in 5 companies saying they’re failing to capitalise on its potential, managers need to know how to deal with them, say researchers from Aalto University.
AI has the…
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A team with diverse expertise produces novel ideas — but are they practical?
Contrary to the widespread belief that teams with diverse expertise are automatically more creative, a new study by a joint team of researchers from the University of Waterloo, Xiamen University and Texas Tech University reveals this isn’t always…
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Underwater Robot Explores the Seafloor Without Damaging It
Seabed observation plays a major role in safeguarding marine systems by keeping tabs on the species and habitats on the ocean floor at different depths. This is primarily done by underwater robots that use optical imaging to collect high quality…
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