Chronicling Robots Since 2011
The key takeaway from Tuesday’s RobotLabNYC forum, on “Exploring The Autonomous Future,” was humans are the key to robot adoption. Dr. Howard Morgan of First Round Capital expressed to the audience of more than 100 innovators working within the automation ecosystem, the necessity of embracing “entrepreneurial marketing” to reach customers. Tom Ryden echoed Morgan’s sentiment … Read more
The medical industry is ripe for disruption. Already, Intuitive Surgical has been revolutionizing the operating room with its DaVinci assisted device. If you are not familiar, robot assisted surgery means a surgeon sits at a console and uses hand and foot controls to manipulate four interactive robotic arms, which are equipped with a high-definition vision system. … Read more
In the tech world there are few companies that elicit both fear and respect, Google is one of them. While everyone this week was distracted playing Pac-Man on Google Maps, the big story is how they are taking over life science with robots. There is not an industry today that Google does not touch from farming (Shopping Express) to … Read more