Now, tablets rule. Time magazine has quoted Apple CEO Tim Cook as stating”… that virtually every Fortune 500 and Global 500 company is already using the iPad in their businesses and adding more each quarter.” What makes this especially remarkable is that Apple envisioned the iPad as a consumer, rather than a business product.
Are keyboards dead? In view of their ubiquity, and proven usefulness, this may seem to be an absurd question, but some people are considering this possibility. The success of the keyboard-less iPad in penetrating the business market was one of 2011’s big surprises.
Update: This telepresence article inspired more than a few comments in LinkedIn discussion groups. With the authors’ permission, we are reposting comments made by Tandy Trower of Hoaloha Robotics, and Jim Gunderson of Gamma Two Robots. “For certain types of scenarios, telepresence is very useful. For example, it has enabled us to explore the surface of […]
Here we are, well into the second decade of a new millennium, and not only is there a conspicuous absence of jet packs, but also no robot butler made my breakfast this morning. Domestic robots are not completely unknown, of course. There’s the famous vacuuming Roomba, and home-based medical robots are starting to appear. Yet, […]
2011 was a good year for AMREL and 2012 promises even to be better. We have all kinds of exciting news and we can’t want to wait to tell you about it. Come to think of it, we have to; this is the last blog post of the year. In the meantime, you and your […]
As reported previously in this blog, the 2nd Network Integration Evaluation (NIE) appears to have successfully tested ARMY’s communication systems. Not all the results were reassuring. For example, there was some nasty feedback about the Nett Warrior. Most surprising was that many warfighters claimed that they didn’t want or need a smartphone. The ARMY’s smartphone […]
December Update If you are not reading The Robot Report (and you should be; it’s one of the best things on the web about the robotic industry), you may have missed their article about the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. Much of what it says will not be news to the readers of this blog, but one […]
The Army has just finished its second Network Integration Evaluation (NIE). This large exercise appears to have accomplished its primary goals of accelerating the notoriously slow acquisition process, field-testing entire networks, and gathering valuable end-user feedback. Sometime massive bureaucratic efforts do work. Although complete tactical communication systems were tested, the smartphones were the center of […]
Faster, more powerful, and more flexible than earlier models, AMREL’s new RT9, RK9, and RF9 laptops are perfect for the data-heavy applications used by the military and public safety sectors. “Every single upgrade in the new laptops was made in response to the critical needs of end users,” explains Ron McMahan, AMREL’s VP, Engineering Solutions. […]
Should robots walk or roll? While the answer to this question is obvious for certain applications, it has implications for the entire robot industry, and society as a whole. Colin Angle, CEO of iRobot, has seen the future of robots, and they aren’t walking. In an interview with Pilots Presence (reprinted in IEEE Spectrum), Angle […]
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