Designing the Robot Revolution

In this week's episode:

1. Engineers have been working to create a robot to help with picking and taking care of Strawberries
2. A Fast Food brand in the US trials “Voice AI - drive-through assistant”
3. Gartner’s latest report on how explosive AI use by businesses is being hampered by scalability challenges
4. In Academia, sloppy use of Machine Learning is creating a reproducibility crisis

Historical reference of automation book published in 850 AD - Book of Ingenious Devices

DtRR: Unpacking the tools, methods and trends influencing the work of creating wonderful automation, robotics & AI.

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In this episode, inspired a world imagined in TV Show The Jetsons, Jacob and David discuss the potential near future for combined robotics and AI.

Embodied AI involves working with real world physical systems and robots that use AI to interact with the physical world whilst learning from their interactions. Researchers in this field of AI are moving away from a strictly algorithm-led approach and instead attempt to first understand how biological systems work, develop general principles of intelligent behaviour then apply this knowledge to build artificial systems such as robots.

Article by BCG discussed in this episode: Robotics Outlook 2030: How Intelligence and Mobility Will Shape the Future

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In this week's episode:

1. Google announces PaLM-SayCan - language models for Everyday Robots
2. Amazon buy home vacuum cleaning robotics company iRobot
3. Former Facebook exec prototypes the “iPhone of Killer Robots”
4. Exoskeletons at the 2022 World Robot Conference in Beijing,

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In this episode we talk to Anastacia Simonchik and Peter Tyrholt from Visiba Care. We discuss the evolution of their virtual care platform, how they work practically with AI/automation, lessons they've learned innovating in this space, what the future of healthcare might look like and what they are most excited (or fearful of) when it comes to AI/automation in healthcare.

Designing the Robot Revolution unpack the tools, methods and trends influencing the work of creating wonderful automation. We investigate the cutting edge of automation across diverse industries distilling lessons learned applicable to anyone working within the field of automation and AI.

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Creating wonderful automation requires plenty of collaboration between subject matter experts, which can take a lot of time and sometimes make for slow progress. Are there better ways we could approach how teams collaborate on automation work in order to get us more speed? In this episode, we explore exactly that topic including discussing the two thought pieces linked below.

"If we’re all so busy, why isn’t anything getting done?" by McKinsey

Darren Chait on most meetings being a waste of time

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In this episode we interview two experts in the field of robot journalism - Cecilia Campbell and Mikael Törnwall. Together we explore what the increase in automated content means for journalists, how readers are responding and what we can expect to see in this space over the coming years.

The future of journalism in a networked society - a paper by Ericsson from 2017 authored by Mikael Törnwall.

United Robots Blog - Cecilia Campbell - United Robots

Reuters Institute, Journalism Trends 2022

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In this episode David and Jacob Go on a deep dive into qualitative analysis.

The Journal that we reference can be found here

Jacob's course for beginners wanting to get in to qualitative analysis can be found at Skillshare!

The this is service design doing methods library, which is great, can be found here!

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In this episode David and Jacob Discuss autonomous shipping and how it has the possibility to transform the way we get goods delivered to us, making it less damaging for the environment, making the work of sailors less taxing and decreasing shipping costs, all in one go.

Also in this episode, Jacob and David are introduced to the concept of actor-centric versus activity-centric perspectives when creating services.

We also discuss the importance of delineating the systems we look at when creating automation.

Designing the Robot Revolution unpacks the tools, methods and trends influencing the work of creating wonderful automation, good for business, people and planet. 

We discuss the topics that come up when working on the frontline of automation and when we don’t know what is going on we ask a subject matter expert.

Episode references:

Creating value through product-service-software systems in institutionalized ecosystems – The case of autonomous ships - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019850121001905

Kongsberg and Wilhelmsen autonomous ships – https://www.massterly.com/what-we-do

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In this episode Jacob and David talk to Katarina Cornelius, author of Disrupting Digital.

Get your E-book copy of Disrupting Digital here!

Or the Swedish version E-book here!

A physical copy of the Swedish version can be found under this link!

Last in the episode we discuss our previous episode The Limitless Possibilities of a Data Driven Company and some comments we received on Linkedin. If you want to check the discussion out or even join in you can do that here.

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