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With a rapidly growing demand for flexible production, robots are
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including high-performance connectivity, digital twinning, and collaborative robots.
He had asked her to refine a key material in solar cells to boost its electrical conductivity. But the
number of potential tweaks was overwhelming, from spiking the recipe with
traces of metals and other additives to varying the heating and drying times.
"There are so many things you can go change, you can quickly go through 10
million [designs] you can test," Berlinguette says.
So he and colleagues outsourced the effort to a single-armed robot overseen by an artificial intelligence (AI)
algorithm. Dubbed Ada, the robot
mixed different solutions, cast them in films, performed heat treatments and
other processing steps, tested the films' conductivity, evaluated their microstructure, and logged the
results. The AI interpreted each
experiment and determined what to synthesize next. At a meeting of the
Materials Research Society (MRS) here last week, Berlinguette reported that the
system quickly homed in on a recipe and heating conditions that created
defect-free films ideal for solar cells. "What used to take us 9 months
now takes us 5 days," Berlinguette says.
LONDON,
UNITED KINGDOM — The robotics market
is set to transform over the next 10 years, based on the comprehensive robotics tracker released by global
tech market advisory firm, ABI Research.
ABI Research’s Commercial and Industrial Robotics market data report
predicts there will be enormous growth across all subsectors, highlighted in a
total market valuation of US$277 billion by 2030. That growth will not be
distributed evenly, however. By 2022, the burgeoning mobile robotics space will start to
overtake the traditional industrial
robotics market. Currently, mobile autonomy is concentrated in material
handling within the supply chain, but mobile
robots are set to touch every sector of the global economy for a wide range
of use-cases.
“Everyone talks about self-driving passenger
vehicles, but mobile automation is
far more developed in intralogistics for fulfillment and industry,” says Rian
Whitton, senior analyst at ABI Research.
“The automation of material handling will see huge segments of the global forklift,
tow truck, and indoor vehicle market consumed by robotics vendors and OEMs that
bring indoor autonomy.”
The robotics market is set
to transform over the next decade, based on the most comprehensive robotics tracker yet released by global
tech market advisory firm, ABI Research.
There will be enormous growth across all sub-sectors, highlighted in a
total market valuation of $277bn (~€250bn) by 2030. That growth will not be
distributed evenly, however. By 2022, the burgeoning mobile robotics space will
start to overtake the traditional industrial robotics market. Currently,
mobile autonomy is concentrated in material handling within the supply chain,
but mobile robots
are set to touch every sector of the global economy for a wide range of
use-cases.
Rian Whitton, Senior Analyst at ABI Research, said: “Everyone
talks about self-driving passenger vehicles, but mobile automation is far more
developed in intralogistics for fulfilment and industry. The automation of
material handling will see huge segments of the global forklift, tow truck, and
indoor vehicle market consumed by robotics
vendors and OEMs that bring indoor autonomy.”
Researchers at the Polytechnique Montréal Nanorobotics Laboratory in Canada have
developed a new method to guide endovascular instruments into complex vascular
structures that were hitherto inaccessible to endovascular surgeons. The
technique involves moving the patient and the endovascular instrument using a robotic platform within a magnetic field.
Endovascular
surgery has enabled minimally invasive approaches for a huge array of surgical
interventions. However, the technique
is not without its challenges, and advancing a thin catheter through long and
tortuous vasculature can be difficult, with the device potentially getting
stuck. In fact, certain areas of the body are inaccessible to endovascular
surgeons because of the complexity of their vasculature and the impossibility
of advancing a catheter through it using conventional means.
"Robot intensity," measured by the
number of robots per number of
workers, has more than doubled in the last decade to reach 1.81 robots for every 10,000 workers as of
2017, according to a study by The Century Foundation.
Robots are leading to the displacement
of mostly young, less-educated, minority workers in midwestern
states, the study found. Workers have largely found new jobs. The new jobs
had reduced pay, but the study did not find evidence that an area's increased robot intensity coincided with a
decline in its wages.
Nationally, the study found the use
of robots can increase employment,
noting there is little evidence the use of robotics will result in
"widespread and crushing job displacement" as robotic intensity increases in census
divisions outside of the Midwest.
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