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The Seattle retailer hopes to make its challenge a regular event that encourages innovation in robotics and steers academic research toward e-commerce automation.
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That was the focus of the Amazon challenge. Each teams robot tried to pick up a shopping list of items of varying shapes and sizes -- Crayola markers, a duck toy, tennis balls -- stored on shelves and place them in a bin.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-05-28/robot-with-a-human-grasp-is-amazon-s-challenge-to-students
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)"AN I SEPPOZE YU'D BAN TH INNERNET T' KEEP THE LIBRUREEZ OPN" blah blah blah.
How does capitalism continue when you have a glut of debt-saddled people who can't even start off life because you're either fucking automating, wage depleting or inshoring/offshoring everything that isn't nailed down??
Recursion
(56,582 posts)Doesn't seem to be that difficult of a concept; most of the advanced economies are heading in that direction.
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)I suppose if I didn't care about the future and my position was flimsy and dismissive to begin with, I'd do the same thing.
Yep, if there's one thing debt-saddled Millenials have lots of, it's disposable income to buy stuff with!
yourself.
whatthehey
(3,660 posts)The wealthier a nation becomes, regardless of political system, the more service-oriented its economy, be it Sweden's 65%, the USA's 77%, or Luxembourg's (the highest GDP/capita in the world with the possible exception of the essentially privately held Qatar) 88%. Clearly an economy even more service-led than ours is not hurting them one little bit That's what advanced economies do; they spend more of their money on health care, entertainment, recreation, health and fitness - services all, rather than subsistence spending entirely on locally manufactured necessities. They invest more driving a financial sector - services again. It's universal other than the oil sheikdoms. Even Germany's much-vaunted manufacturing is a small part of their economy, which is 68% services.