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Enrique Dans

On the effects of technology and innovation on people, companies and society (writing in Spanish at enriquedans.com since 2003)

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IMAGE: A tractor from the perspective of the crops

Could agriculture be the field where digital transformation enjoys the biggest growth?

IMAGE: Amazon Digit robot holding a yellow container and putting it in a conveyor belt

If a robot can do it better: Amazon’s pragmatic approach to robotization

IMAGE: Several devices that diabetic patients need to carry at all times to take care of their blood sugar levels

Algorithms, open source and sophisticated automation

IMAGE: A huge glass skyscraper reflecting a blue sky with clouds, and workers hanging while they clean its façade

Have you ever wondered how much it costs to clean a skyscraper’s windows?

IMAGE: The Mechanical Turk, a fraudulent chess-playing machine constructed in 1770, which appeared to be able to play a strong game of chess against a human opponent

The paradox of the Mechanical Turk

The original Mechanical Turk was an elaborate fraud from 1770: supposedly a chess-playing machine…

IMAGE: A person picking up a McDonald’s order in a window with a conveyor belt, with a fully automated process

Are you lovin’ it? You better: McDonald’s automated restaurant is the future of fast food

IMAGE: A pair of glasses in the front and a bunch of screens with code in the background

Why we shouldn’t let ChatGPT dictate the machine learning conversation

IMAGE: An LG robot moving across the VIP lounge in South Korea’s Incheon airport

What South Korea can tell us about using robots

IMAGE: A robotic arm unloading boxes from a truck into a conveyor belt

Okay, we’ve got self-driving trucks, so who loads and unloads them?

IMAGE: A photo of Amazon Sparrow, the newly introduced robotic arm from Amazon that manipulates thousands of different objets of all forms and shapes with great dexterity

The age of applied robotics

Amazon has unveiled Amazon Sparrow, its new warehouse robot designed to replace packers, the men and women…