Vieillissement de la population

There is not enough institutions, nor professional caregivers to absorb the need for healthcare of the aging population. Technologies have been focusing on extending independent living for the aging population. But is independence the appropriate technological goal ? shouldn't it be more cohesion and interdependence as far as the elderly can « function » in its environment ? Robots can help medical professionals and caregivers by removing tedious tasks, giving…

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Réseaux intelligents

Smart grid integrates the traditional energy infrastructure (production and distribution) with digital and communication technologies. But simply giving people feedback about their energy use isn't enough to create great efficiency. There is a strong movement to add intelligent switching thus robotics, to the energy distribution network. Robotics hold opportunities to innovate in production and distribution infrastructures, user interfaces, services and applications associated with the smart grid and based on a…

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Bien-être et Confort

Robotics technologies are enhancing our well-being and comfort with task robots taking in charge our daily chores, but also home automation and connected objects simplifying our life, assistance and companion robots helping us collaboratively in our personal life, social robots keeping us in the loop of our social surrounding community and finally, entertainment robots, just for fun.

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Mega cités

By 2030, the world's urban population will be 4.9 billion, with 1.7 billion more city dwellers and 20 million fewer rural dwellers. As information technology, embedded robotics § sensing in buildings and infrastructure and small personal devices spreads into every corner of city dwellers' lives, urban massive set of data associated with robotics technologies will create many opportunities for new products, services and systems innovations to reengineer smarter, cleaner, more…

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Technologie

Robotics is pluridisciplinary and integrates technologies from three main sciences : electronics, computing and mechanics. Hence robotics technologies are progressing with the progress of electronics, mechanics, materials, Artificial Intelligence and its applications (voice recognition, visual recognition, navigation allgorithms, behavior modellisation, image processing, etc….), nanotechnologies, aso. Looking at the robotics world through the technological theme, we could consider a robot as an ultimate prototype demonstrator, whose main purpose is to integrate…

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Business et investissement

In 2011, more than $160 millon dollars was invested into hardware and robotics companies. There are now 56 venture capital, private equity and investment houses that actively invest in hardware and robotics and in 2012, the industry got its very own dedicated robotics venture capital companies with an initial $25 million dollar and € 60 million investment. Robotics will see a new age of growth from the alignment of the…

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