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Creating a Home Companion Robot — A Look at SoftBank’s Pepper

Creating a Home Companion Robot — A Look at SoftBank’s Pepper

Masayoshi Son, founder, chairman, and CEO of SoftBank, unveiled a robot called Pepper at a press conference near Tokyo, Japan in June 2014. SoftBank began selling the home companion robot for about US$2,000 the following year in Japan and other markets followed in the subsequent years. The robots are being manufactured by Taiwan’s giant electronics manufacturer, [...]

By William Albano|2023-12-12T16:31:52+00:00February 27th, 2017|Robotics|Comments Off

4.0: From Industry to Supply Chain to Supply Chain Service

What is Industry 4.0 The term Industry 4.0 was first coined in 2011. The four key components of Industry 4.0 are Cyber-Physical Systems, Internet of Things (IoT), Internet of Services (IoS), and Smart Factory. The integration of computational and physical processes, that is enabled by embedded systems monitoring and controlling the real processes interacting with [...]

By William Albano|2016-06-28T23:16:13+00:00June 28th, 2016|Factory automation, Feature Story, Industrial robots, Industry 4.0/IIoT, Manufacturing, Smart supply chain|Comments Off

Industry 4.0 In China: The Transparent Factory

One cornerstone of Supply Chain 4.0 is known as Industry 4.0. Let's look at how China, and specifically Haier, has joined the emerging development of the factory of the future. We've translated the following article by Luo Chao from Chinese to English, which was originally published on Baidu Baijia. Read more about Supply Chain Service [...]

By William Albano|2016-06-27T22:01:44+00:00June 27th, 2016|Factory automation, Industrial robots, Industry 4.0/IIoT, IoT Case Studies, Smart supply chain|Comments Off