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Welcome to The Future of the workplace - this is robot EVA at work

EVA hear before you see it. A whirring and whizzing, noise greets you as you enter the offices of the vending machine start-up Robotics businesses, based in London.

On the one hand, a robot arm is twisting through a complicated series of movements with six joints and rotating in a sequence that would in The Real world, place a label on a package.

This is EVA, and it has this test moves non-stop for months, and their reliability.

The Office and the workshop, there are More Than a dozen other EVA units, some mined by the engineers, others are waiting for the test.

It must be very Clones scary in the night, as EVA continues its work, Simulation, attaching labels, while surrounded by his silent.

vending machine founder, Suryansh Chandra (left) and Mostafa Elsayed

This robotic arm emerged from The Work of architect Suryansh Chandra and his business partner Mostafa Elsayed.

"We started with the intention of says you democratize Robotics , automation, Mr Chandra accessible and affordable for as many people as necessary,".

you are betting that there are thousands, if not millions, of smaller companies which have done repetitive tasks, But can not afford a large industrial robot.

So EVA was developed by cheap reliable parts. It's the same motors that power the electric Windows in cars, while the computer chips are similar to those in the Consumer Electronics business. This will allow you to sell, EVA is £8,000.

"If I give you an analogy, this was a world where there are a lot of luxury cars. Everything was fast, powerful and precise, But it was not a Toyota. There was no people's car," Mr Chandra says.

the vending machine is only a company in search of a larger market for robot and interfere with the way that things are made of.

More Than 2. 4 million industrial robots working in factories around The World , according to (IFR), the forecast of sales with double-digit growth from 2020 to 2022.

The majority of the robot is currently doing repetitive work in large factories, the manufacturing of cars, electronics and metal.

These vast industrial arms were long, powerful and precise, But adaptability was missing.

But now, developments in Artificial Intelligence , the new open markets in addition to improved vision technology and better devices for gripping, in.

Online Shopping Industry has a juicy opportunity. In huge warehouses, millions of objects in all shapes and sizes are to be sorted and moved. To replace

Pick and mix

to recognize the people in this growing market, the robot must be able and handle all kinds of different items.

"Something that can make a child easily, what is in a bin, and grab an Element that is really hard for a robot. There is a ton of technology to make it possible," said Vince Martinelli, of US-American Law in the field of Robotics .

Right Robotics using suction and a gripper to objects

attack of His company was to develop The First , which could be mounted a gripper to the end of the robot arm allows it to grab items in different sizes.

your system for a robot arm has a suction-grab device and Three Fingers to the elements. First of all, the suction is enough to select the item And Then back up Three Fingers .

It uses a camera to identify Artificial Intelligence and locate the object that it wants.

The Explosion in Online Shopping has been a demand for this type of technology; Amazon alone has hundreds of millions of dollars invested in tech for your warehouse.

"If I go to the store, to me the picking of The Work for you for free. I go to the store, grabbed the things I want. If I'm online I'll order those exported, The Work back to the dealer and you have to figure out now How To do, the item-handling," said Mr Martinelli.

picking up delicate objects is a challenge for robot

Soft Robotics , with its headquarters in the United States, has been to the same problem tackled, albeit in a different way.

His robot-hand rubber-like fingers, which you fill with air, to treat so that you can delicate foods such as biscuits and pastries.

"The food Industry is almost entirely manual today, because each piece of food, every chicken cutlets, you name it, different in size, shape and weight. You also have an additional dimension of food safety and cleanliness," says Carl Vause, The Chief executive of Soft Robotics .

Mr Vause thinks that his company, the technology, the apparel Industry also.

Prof ' Lepora says, the creation of robot hands only a technical challenge, "

" While such systems robot give the poor more skills, your skill is a long way still falls short of the human hand.

researchers (a partnership between the University of The West of England and University of Bristol), think the big breakthrough would be to give robot hands a sense of touch.

Prof Nathan Lepora, the head of the tactile Robotics group has developed rubber-sensors that can detect and display surfaces.

The System uses a camera in each "finger", which recognizes, like the rubber-tip bulges and moves when touching an object.

With a kind of Artificial Intelligence called Machine Learning , the robot is then trained to recognize objects by touch and to see how the rubber tip is responsive.

Prof Lepora thinks that by the end of this decade, robots will be able to manipulate elements, objects, assemble and Tinker in the same way that people do with their hands.

"It's just a technical challenge, which at the end of The Day . There is nothing magical in how we use our hands," he says.

could be Up to a third of all jobs "radically transformed" by the automation, the OECD 'Emotional response'

Future developments in the robotic hardware and Artificial Intelligence mean that the robot be able to do more and more jobs that are currently running through the people.

14% of the jobs are transformed "High Risk of automation," and 32% of the jobs could be "radical", with the manufacturing Industry on the highest risk.

It is a sensitive topic for those who work in the Robotics Industry and enterprise of the robot.

Mr Chandra argued that its technology no more boring, repetitive jobs that people don't like, and not very well, and also create new ones that are likely to replace them.

"There are certainly tens of thousands of new jobs that are available, according to the current society, which has not previously existed. So I think the consistency of the contracts is a fiction, it's never really been the case," he says.

Every time when a job dies, it is an emotional Reaction . But every time there is a creation of a new economy. "

This article is the second part of the mini-series on disruptive technologies

robotics, retailing, lifestyle, automation

Source of news: bbc.com