Intelligence on machines that act
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From the current issue
Autonomous Systems gathered deployment data from eleven warehouse humanoid pilots. The headline: uptime is improving fast, but integration costs still dwarf the robot itself.
Neuromorphic cameras that report change rather than frames are finding their killer application in high-speed inspection — and quietly rewriting the machine vision playbook.
HarbourMind's chief executive on retrofits versus newbuilds, the operator-to-vessel ratio that makes the business case, and why the IMO's timeline doesn't worry her.
Resident underwater vehicles that live on the seabed are replacing dive crews and survey ships across offshore wind farms — and the operating model is spreading to oil, gas and telecoms.
Fleet operators are moving from scheduled servicing to condition-based maintenance. Vertex Dynamics explains the data pipeline behind its 40% downtime reduction.
Uncrewed aerial resupply has quietly become one of the most consequential applications of drone swarms — moving blood, batteries and ammunition to places no truck convoy should go.
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