Bots in Society

Knightscope, developer of security robots, announced it has signed its first Las Vegas casino client. A US-based operator of casinos and gaming facilities with more than three dozen locations across the country subscribed to its first Knightscope Autonomous Security Robot (ASR) to bolster its security and surveillance program.

Autonomous taxi-provider Cruise announced its robots now cover 70 percent of the San Franscisco area. Only last year Cruise was the first to operate a robotaxi-service in California when the California Public Utilities Commission authorized Cruise to participate in California’s first pilot program to provide driverless autonomous vehicle (AV) passenger service to the public. 

Southgate Community School District is using a robot to ensure that its Fordline Elementary School campus is disinfected. It’s the first school in Michigan to utilize Xenex Disinfection Services’ germ-zapping technologies to destroy germs throughout the building.

How do you accelerate RPA in the US federal government, an entity with over two million civilian employees across more than one hundred agencies? Gerard Badorrek has tackled this challenge as the CFO of a US Government Agency.  

The use of robots plays an important role in reaching the sustainable development goals set out by the United Nations (17 SDGs). The International Federation of Robotics identified 13 SDGs, where robots help to create a better planet.

SpineGuard, developer of DSG (Dynamic Surgical Guidance) sensing technology to secure and streamline the placement of bone implants, announced that research teams presented three articles at the CRAS conference in Naples, Italy. They report the progress made with the robotic application of DSG.

AI-provider VideaHealth announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has issued clearance for Videa Caries Assist, an AI-powered dental caries (cavity) detection algorithm. VideaHealth surpassed the FDA’s exacting efficacy requirements by significantly aiding the analysis of radiographs instantly from the dentist’s chair.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has awarded Intel Federal LLC with support from Intel Labs and its collaborators, the Computer Vision Center Barcelona, Spain, and the University of Texas at Austin, the opportunity to develop advanced simulation solutions for off-road autonomous ground vehicles.

192.2 mph/309.3 kph. Never before has a car driven by artificial intelligence alone been this fast. Last week on the straight of the Space Shuttle airstrip at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, the car created by the Politecnico di Milano-PoliMOVE broke the world speed record for a fully autonomous car on a straight.

Virtual Incision Corporation, a medical device company working on a miniaturized robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) platform, announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) supplement to complete the final stage of its clinical study analyzing the MIRA Platform in bowel resection procedures. The approval was supported by a favorable interim clinical study report on the safety profile of MIRA.