This Is Robotics: Radio News #14

This Is Robotics: Radio News

ROBOTS, COBOTS AND PHARMA 4.0

Robots and cobots, more and more, are beginning to exert an outsized impact on life-saving and disease-preventing new drug discoveries, medicines, and therapeutics.

From drug discovery, to the manufacturing and packaging of new pharmaceuticals, the marriage of AI and robotics has been crucial to the process.

In what’s now being called Pharma 4.0, a new world is emerging for robots and cobots, and they are proving themselves up to the task, and then some.

NEW WORKPLACE LAW: NYC LAW 144

UPDATE: NOVEMBER 2022. New workplace law: NYC Law 144, which takes effect in 40 days or less, January 1, 2023. The new law covers the use of AI in hiring and promotions. Businesses in NYC will hire approximately 90,000 people in 2023 and all hiring will have to adhere to Law 144. There are over 200 robotics, AI and automation companies in NYC, which this law will most definitely impact. An adverse impact will have a definite ill-effect on innovation. What can be done, if anything, to avoid trouble?

And as with many laws emanating from New York, they have a habit of going nationwide, followed by worldwide implications as well.

The details: Confusion Reigns over Approaching New York City AI Bias Audit Law

TIME MAGAZINE’S BEST 200 INVENTIONS FOR 2022

WHAT’S NEW IN ROBOTICS? Time Magazine is out with its Best 200 Inventions for 2022. It’s got 25 separate categories, and robots are everywhere! Robotics, now quickly integrating with AI, has seeped its way into a vast swarth of technology. And the future forecasts even more! Join us for a look.

Read it all here: Robotiq: What’s New in Robotics? 18.11.2022

HOMAGE TO PITTSBURGH: BACK FROM THE BRINK!

The Fall & Rise of Pittsburgh: From Dying Steel Town to Global Robotics Hub. The inspirational story of America’s Steel Town collapsing and going bankrupt in the 1980s, and its fight to regain prominence as a great city and world renown as a global robotics hub.

Former Pittsburgh Mayor Bill Peduto said that during the 1980s and early 1990s, when every politician was saying how they were going to bring the mills back, there were people in Pittsburgh who were building out an entirely new economy based upon technology and education. “It was not an overnight success; it was 30 years of work!”

Join us for this heartwarming Thanksgiving tale of a city refusing to give up. It’s become a fan favorite worldwide and an instant holiday classic here at This Is Robotics.

Read more: From Dying Steel Town to Global Robotics Hub

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