Tom Spencer

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

RPA, which stands for ‘ robotic process automation ’, is a technology that consists of software robots ( bots ) that can mimic a human worker performing operations on their laptops. In short, these new technologies will help us become more human and less like robots. Combining RPA, ML and NLP to create an end to end solution .

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Harvard Business

APRIL 10, 2017

Accidents, including deadly ones , caused by software or industrial robots can be traced to the early days of such technology, but they are not necessarily caused by the systems themselves. 2015: A robot for grabbing auto parts grabbed and killed a man. 2015: Image tagging software classified black people as gorillas.

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Harvard Business

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

A→B is far from the sentient robots that science fiction has promised us. For instance, building a photo tagger requires anywhere from tens to hundreds of thousands of pictures (A) as well as labels or tags telling you if there are people in them (B). How robotics and machine learning are changing business. Insight Center.

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Harvard Business

JUNE 5, 2017

Beyond 9 th grade, we believe schools should provide electives such as robotics, computational math, and computational art to nurture students who have the interest and the talent to become computer scientists, or who will need computers to enhance their work in other fields. Why can’t our schools follow suit?

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Harvard Business

AUGUST 23, 2016

Robots are not yet good at social interactions or tasks that require dexterity, such as unpacking crates, shelving shampoo, making a burrito, or arranging flowers. But it’s a different story for retailers and fast-food companies — the largest low-wage employers. So far, the technology we hear most about in retail is self-checkout.

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Harvard Business

MAY 23, 2016

Another is when a machine that was planned to perform the next manufacturing step goes into (unplanned) maintenance mode, triggering the part carrier, which has an RFID tag with information about the right sequence of production steps, to “negotiate” with different machines to find the best way through the factory floor.

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The Nonprofit Consultant

AUGUST 16, 2010

You're hiring a complete person, not a robot. Tags: corporate zilch Nonprofit interview books Nancy Lublin management. Obviously, you want to check with your HR and legal department, but everything [a potential new hire] puts out publicly is fair game, so I check their facebook and twitter feeds. I want their networks.

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