Cutting edge two-armed droids that can make sushi, play chess and pour the perfect BEER & Future Jo Losses
If Carlsberg made robots! Cutting edge two-armed droids
that can make sushi, play chess and pour the perfect BEER
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Swiss company ABB's robot holds cup with one arm
and pours beer with other
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Japanese firm Kawasaki's SCARA combines sushi
rice with fish before serving
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Thirty brands from across globe showed off wares
at show in Bangkok, Thailand
By DIANNE APEN-SADLER FOR MAILONLINE
PUBLISHED: 07:21 EDT, 20 June 2019 | UPDATED: 07:21 EDT,
20 June 2019
Artificial intelligence experts have shown off their
latest wares at a trade conference - including robots that can make sushi, pour
beers and play chess.
Robot X Manufacturing Expo 2019 attendees in Bangkok,
Thailand, yesterday, were wowed by a number of two-armed robots.
Swiss firm ABB's robot can hold a cup in one hand - at a
90 degree angle for the perfect pour - while tipping beer into it from the
other.
Thanks to its dual-armed nature, Japanese firm Kawasaki's
SCARA robot can complete a number of tasks with ease.
As well as combining sushi rice with fish before serving,
it can also make pizzas, evenly spreading sauce before adding cheese and other
toppings to be cooked.
The company have also said the robot can pack food into
lunch boxes, label products and assemble circuit boards.
After successfully serving the beverage, with just the
right amount of head, the machine even shakes the bottle to make sure there's
no liquid left inside.
Other cutting-edge robots include Japanese company
Kawasaki's SCARA that can prepare the country's national dish of sushi.
It uses the two arms to compile pre-made rice with
toppings of fish, before transferring them to a dish for serving.
The robot then delicately rings a bell to let customers
know their food is ready.
Another robot at the manufacturing show, which will run
until Saturday, can play chess against itself.
The pieces in the game have been modified to have a metal
object protruding from the top so the pincers can easily grab on to them.
It means the robot does not have to adjust its grip for
each individual pawn, knight or queen while playing the game.
A clip from the fair shows the machine quickly moving
both pieces from both sides of the board to play the game.
Organisers say the trade show is 'the most comprehensive
event on manufacturing robots, software, solutions, and supporting industries
in ASEAN'.
More than 30 brands from around the world attended the
event in Thailand, which is 'one of the hottest and growing industrial
automation markets in South East Asia'.
WILL YOUR JOB BE TAKEN BY A ROBOT?
A report in November 2017 suggested that physical jobs in
predictable environments, including machine-operators and fast-food workers,
are the most likely to be replaced by robots.
Management consultancy firm McKinsey, based in New York,
focused on the amount of jobs that would be lost to automation, and what
professions were most at risk.
The report said collecting and processing data are two
other categories of activities that increasingly can be done better and faster
with machines.
This could displace large amounts of labour - for
instance, in mortgages, paralegal work, accounting, and back-office transaction
processing.
Conversely, jobs in unpredictable environments are least
are risk.
The report added: 'Occupations such as gardeners,
plumbers, or providers of child- and eldercare - will also generally see less
automation by 2030, because they are technically difficult to automate and
often command relatively lower wages, which makes automation a less attractive
business proposition.'
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