Month: February 2021

Warehouses, factories, and hospitals are deploying more robots, often made by different companies. That can lead to communication problems. So many robots work at Changi General Hospital in Singapore that until recently it wasn’t uncommon to find two delivery bots sitting in a hallway or outside an elevator in a standoff. Such impasses used to
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Distribution plans that favor people with time and internet access hurt Black and Latinx people disproportionately. Since December, about 31 million doses of Covid vaccines have been administered in the US. President Biden has committed to distributing 150 million more doses within his first 100 days in office, but new cases continue to mount. January
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The president hopes electrifying the federal fleet will create jobs and encourage motorists to ditch gas-powered cars. But no automaker is ready yet. The federal government is going electric. Or, well, it’s going to try. President Biden last week signed an executive order that, among other initiatives to mitigate climate change, strongly encourages the federal
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