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A robot has joined Shanghai Library. Working Alongside Robots at the Library. By Hannah Davis on April 5, 2019 For students currently in library science programs, the prospect of getting a job after school can be daunting.
Though job growth is predicted to be average about 9% from 2016 to 2026 – it can still be an incredibly competitive market. It is difficult enough to compete with other qualified candidates who are human – but, with increasing automation, do librarians have to worry about being replaced by robots? Some estimates say that one quarter of American jobs are at a high risk for automation. The Little Robot that Lived at the Library. How we built an emotive social robot to guide library customers to books Our team at Futurice designed and built a social robot to guide people to books at Helsinki’s new central library, Oodi.
Opened in 2018, Oodi is the biggest of Helsinki’s 37 public libraries. It has 10,000 visitors a day, and an estimated 2 million visitors a year (compared to Finland’s 5.5 million population, that is a significant portion). Oodi is big on automation and robotics. It has an automatic returns system: customers set their books on a conveyor belt, which brings the books to the basement, where they get sorted into boxes, which are picked up by a mobile MiR200 robot, which brings the books to the 3rd floor.
At the start of our project, we brainstormed how Oodi could use social robots: helping kids learn to read, instructing people on using equipment such as 3D printers, giving information about the library in several languages, and helping people find their way at the library. Video Friday: Child Robot Affetto Learning New Facial Expressions. Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers.
We’ll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here’s what we have so far (send us your events!) : HRI 2020 – March 23-26, 2020 – Cambridge, U.K. ICARSC 2020 – April 15-17, 2020 – Ponta Delgada, Azores ICRA 2020 – May 31-4, 2020 – Paris, France ICUAS 2020 – June 9-12, 2020 – Athens, Greece CLAWAR 2020 – August 24-26, 2020 – Moscow, Russia Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today’s videos. We’ll have more on the DARPA Subterranean Challenge Urban Circuit next week, but here’s a quick compilation from DARPA of some of the competition footage. [ SubT ] ABB set up a global competition in 2019 to assess 20 leading AI technology start-ups on how they could approach solutions for 26 real-world picking, packing and sorting challenges.
We wrote about Covariant and its AI-based robot picking system last month. . [ Covariant ] [ Exyn ] Roanoke Libraries welcome their robot helper, Pepper. Robots in Academic Libraries: Advancements in Library Automation ... Robbie Library Inventory Robot. This Robot Librarian Locates Haphazardly Placed Books. Organization rules in the library stacks, but patrons can easily thwart the system by haphazardly returning books to the shelves.
Librarians spend many hours searching for these wandering tomes, but robots could soon help them out. A new librarian robot locates misplaced books, helping to return them to their rightful place, Coby McDonald writes for Popular Science. Over the years, automation has slowly crept into libraries around the world. The Little Robot that Lived at the Library. Robots in Libraries, Artificial Intelligence for the Librarian? It is a sure-fire recipe for disaster if my experience with virtual voice activated assistants like Alexa or Siri are anything to go by.
Robots in Libraries. Yes, it’s the title of a satellite conference meeting at IFLA taking place 21-22 August 2019 in Berlin. Let me quote the text of the invitation I received this week. “The rapid development in robotics and artificial intelligence technologies as well as the commercial availability of these products are making in-roads into libraries. Robots in Libraries. I recently had the delight of chairing a panel at Internet Librarian where one of my panelists was Dewey—a physical robot developed by the Palo Alto City Library.
Our panelists interacted with Dewey and other virtual robots like Alexa/Amazon Dot, Google Home, etc. As did the audience. 'First of its kind' humanoid robot joins library staff in north Queensland. Posted 22 Dec 2016, 8:30amThu 22 Dec 2016, 8:30am The days we considered robots as nothing more than a futuristic dream are far behind us.
Robots: Activate. All’s quiet on the gymnasium floor as students sit around a five-foot-long octagon made of PVC pipes.
A robot, festooned with a bright pink balloon bearing a menacing monster face and the word ROAR, stands off against another balloon-bedecked robot across the battleground. With firm grips on iPad controllers, the students rev the robots toward each other until one balloon pops. The crowd cheers. “As soon as you popped a balloon, it got everyone’s attention,” Jill Merkle, library media specialist at Greensview Elementary in Upper Arlington, Ohio, says. “It was fun to see the students rally and root for one another.” Merkle and Kristen Pavlasek, who now teaches 3rd grade at Greensview Elementary, teamed up in 2018 to create a year-end battle bot competition for all 4th graders at the school. Greensview Elementary library is just one of many across the country hosting similar clashes. Choose your bots Team up. Go.gale.com/ps/retrieve. Go.gale.com/ps/retrieve.
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