Jan 27, 2018
McLaren is introducing businesses to the tech and culture that's made it one of the most successful teams in F1 history.
Transferable tech - transferring the THINKING from one industry to another
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McLaren is introducing businesses to the tech and culture that's made it one of the most successful teams in F1 history.
Transferable tech - transferring the THINKING from one industry to another
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The robot, I’m told, is on its way. Any minute now you’ll see it. We can track them, you know. There’s quite a few of them, so it’s only a matter of time. Any minute now. Ah, and here it is. Far down the hospital hall, double doors part to reveal the automaton. There’s no…
Here we see one of the first robots in a hospital that completely runs by itself. The robot moves at a 12mph pace and is programmed to avoid any human. The robot moves supplies throughout the hospital into rooms that are in need of supplies. This is one of the first looks we see robots being used to carry supplies in a hospital and as the reviews come back positively it seems it will only continue.
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I have been part robot since May. Here is my story.
I HAVE BEEN part robot since May. Instead of legs, I move on gyroscopically stabilized wheels. Instead of a face, I have an iPad screen. Instead of eyes, a camera with no peripheral vision. Instead of a mouth, a speaker whose volume I can’t even gauge with my own ears. And instead of ears, a tinny microphone that crackles and hisses with every high note.
I’m a remote worker; while most of WIRED is in San Francisco, I live in Boston. We IM. We talk on the phone. We tweet at each other, but I am often left out of crucial face-to-face meetings, spontaneous brainstorm sessions, gossip in the kitchen.
So my boss found a solution: a telepresence robot from Double Robotics, which would be my physical embodiment at headquarters, extending myself through technology. Specifically, an iPad on a stick on a Segway-like base. The telepresence robot market is crowded, ranging from high-end offerings like iRobot’s Ava (starting price: $69K) to the relatively more affordable Double, which starts at $2,499. The company says it has sold nearly 5,000 of them since its launch in 2012. Mostly these go to big corporations like IBM and McDonald’s, but I’ve heard of teachers and hospitals using them, too. Supposedly all a Double needs to work is a strong Wi-Fi signal.
I Am Become EmBot
The crazy thing about being a human 3,000 miles away from your telepresence robot is that divide instantly dissolves when you activate. As soon as I call into EmBot, I am her, and she is me. My head is her iPad. When she fell, I felt disoriented in Boston. When a piece of her came off in the impact, I felt broken.
Nothing drove home the depth of my connection more than the first time someone touched my robotic body without asking. My coworker (who shall remain nameless) came up to gawk at me, and then moved behind my screen. As I was chatting with other people, he picked me up and shook me. I expected pranks like this. I’d have done the same thing if I were in the office and it were some other poor schmuck calling in to a stupid robot from far away. But I didn’t expect how instantly violated I felt. He just picked up an extension of my body. One moment I was in control of myself, the next, I was powerless. I laughed from the iPad screen faced away from him, but I was unsettled, and then immediately embarrassed, for the first time, because why should it matter to me if the stick I’m currently streaming from is picked up off the floor a continent away?
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I became obsessed with EmBot. I could’t stop thinking about her when I turned her off at night. How sad that this thing that has made my life so much better was just dead when I’m done working.
Investment in bicycle infrastructure is a modern and intelligent move. Many cities get this. Many don't.
This rating is produced by Copahagenzine, an urban design agency based in Copenhagen, Amsterdam. Montreal is now 20th, down from 13th place back in the 2013 list. A lovely relational infographic helps to visually represent these worldly cities.
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