Disruptive Innovation Radar: The Future of Automation

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Disruptive Innovation Radar: The Future of Automation

March 22, 2023 | Newsletters & Alerts

Our Disruptive Innovation Radar roundup features the latest news, trends and insights from the world of Artificial Intelligence. From breakthrough research to emerging applications, this roundup covers it all in a concise, informative, and easily accessible format.

Disruptive Innovation Radar

IKEA is taking inventory management to the next level with the use of drones, while Michigan Medicine is using zipline drones to deliver medication right to your doorstep! Digit Robot is also ready to take on the "dull, dirty, and dangerous" work at warehouses, making the future of automation look brighter than ever.

IKEA is using drones to measure inventory in its stores

IKEA, the popular low-cost Swedish furniture retailer, is now turning to drones to help streamline inventory management. In a blog post, the company announced that it has passed 100 autonomous drones in service at its stores. IKEA says that, since launching the first back in 2021, the drones are now operating at 16 different locations in Belgium, Croatia, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Switzerland.

bgr.com

Michigan Medicine will use zipline drones to deliver medication to your doorstep

ANN ARBOR, MI - Drones that drop off medication right on your doorstep? Through a deal with Michigan Medicine, this home delivery service is now possible. The Ann Arbor hospital system will utilize drones from the San Francisco-based Zipline delivery service company beginning in 2024, officials said.

www.mlive.com

Digit Robot Is Ready to Handle 'Dull, Dirty, and Dangerous' Work at Warehouses

Agility Robotics this week unveiled the next generation of Digit, its bipedal, multi-purpose android built for logistics work. Since the bot's introduction three years ago, Agility has worked closely with logistics companies to understand how they want to use the cyborg to improve warehouse and supply chain operations. "We designed the next generation of Digit with those customer use cases in mind," Agility Robotics CEO Damion Shelton said in a statement(Opens in a new window).

www.pcmag.com

Google introduces first set of AI in Gmail, Docs, here’s what it looks like

Google has introduced a first set of AI in both Gmail and Docs and looking at its potential, we think Google just might be fighting back against the popular threat ChatGPT. While Google prides itself on products that have matured with their end users, such as Google Maps, Gmail, Google Workplace and even workspace, AI has shown its intent to destabilize the market and Google wants a piece.

ventureburn.com

How to build digital twins for supply chain

Getting to grips with supply chain dynamics and understanding what’s happening inside a black hole may seem unrelated, but it turns out that the two topics share some common ground. Both are challenging problems to solve. However, a more intriguing similarity centers around the deployment of digital twins, which can be defined as software models, or virtual replicas, of real-world processes and operations. Digital twins are useful research tools, and their popularity is on the rise in industrial sectors too. Examples covered previously on TechHQ include uses in aerospace, which enable predicti...

techhq.com

NVIDIA AI and Omniverse Enable Automakers to Transform Their Entire Workflow

The automotive industry is undergoing a digital revolution, driven by breakthroughs in accelerated computing, AI and the industrial metaverse. Automakers are digitalizing every phase of the product lifecycle — including concept and styling, design and engineering, software and electronics, smart factories, autonomous driving and retail — using the NVIDIA Omniverse platform and AI.

www.nvidia.com

Lucy Launches LucyGPT, an AI-Powered Subject Matter Expert that Liberates Corporate Knowledge

The Answer Engine acts as a user within Microsoft Teams and Slack and directly responds to employees’ questions, ending their daily scavenger hunt for information Lucy, the world’s leading AI-powered Answer Engine, announced its new product LucyGPT. The future-forward technology leverages generative AI to instantly respond to users’ questions directly within a company’s messaging platform such as Microsoft Teams or Slack. She acts as a 24/7 subject matter expert (SME), providing unique and summarized answers and surfacing the information users need to efficiently and effectively do their jobs.

aithority.com

Pilot AI taps algorithms to extract info from sales calls

Maxwell Lu, formerly a product engineer at Salesforce and the head of revenue operations at a previous startup, found himself frustrated by the task of re-listening to sales calls to write up notes and fill out entries in customer relationship management (CRM) software. Searching for a better way, he decided to build tech that could analyze sales calls automatically — powered by AI — and transfer that information directly into a CRM database.

techcrunch.com

Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful

I don’t need to start this post with the usual predictions that AI will transform our classrooms. It is obviously happening. Students are cheating with AI. Students are getting help with AI. I have required AI for all my classes this semester, and I hear more instructors are doing the same. GPT-4 tutors are being launched by large organizations (both Khan Academy and Duolingo currently have them). The world is changing fast.

noahpinion.substack.com

AI-generated meeting summaries – smart assistants get smarter

Enterprise uses for artificial intelligence (AI) are on the increase. And adding to a fast-growing list of applications for large language models (LLMs) – such as the newly updated GPT-4, which is being rolled out across OpenAI’s suite of services – is meeting summarization. Machine learning tools have long been able to generate calendar entries based on key phrases in emails or instant messages. And with online meetings commonplace, connecting remote workers or catering for hybrid on-premises and at-home scenarios, there’s a wealth of productivity gains up for grabs, including AI-generated me...

techhq.com

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