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Parti Québécois calls for robots and automation to replace immigrant labourers

Canadian Manufacturing

It includes a proposal to reduce the number of non-permanent residents in the province to as few as 250,000, down from 600,000 today, within four years of forming government. ” The party wants to cut the number of temporary foreign workers in the province to 40,000 from 270,000.

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mRNA manufacturing and research continues to grow in Victoria

Manufacturer's Monthly

The developers of the Pfizer/BioNTech COVID-19 mRNA vaccine have chosen Victoria to establish their Asia-Pacific mRNA clinical research and development centre which will form part of BioNTech’s global network. The new facility will support researchers to translate their work into medical breakthroughs. The state government has invested $1.3

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1X Technologies raises $100M Series B to advance NEO humanoid robot

Robotics Business Review

Source: 1X Technologies Humanoids and artificial intelligence were the top stories in robotics last year, and that trend is continuing. Founded in 2014, 1X said its goal is to produce safe systems that benefit society and meet global labor demand at a commercial scale. NEO is designed for household and other service uses.

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Personalised TV – the future of AI-powered entertainment or a step too far?

E&T

This is largely because they’re trying to cater to an entire family or multiple people, each with potentially conflicting viewing tastes, but also because the operators have their own interests to serve, in the form of promotions, especially of their own content. The incumbents have also started to make moves to bridge the content gap.

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Relay Robotics proposes levels of autonomous navigation for indoor robots

Robotics Business Review

Defined by the Society of Automotive Engineers (SAE) in 2014, this framework remains a standard reference in the field. They use lidars and/or cameras to form a map of their environment and localize themselves within it. Developments in artificial intelligence could help realize Level 5 capability.

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Automation, Electrification, and Connectivity: The Auto Industry in the ITC

Foley

Trends in the automotive industry—including automation, artificial intelligence, electrification, connectivity, and advanced security—are increasing automotive industry participation (direct and indirect) in ITC investigations involving less conventional automotive technology areas. 29, 2014). 30, 2015).

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1X Technologies acquires Kind Humanoid to accelerate work toward household robots

Robotics Business Review

The three-person company worked with renowned designer Yves Bhar on the bio-inspired form factor. It also applied artificial intelligence and large language models (LLMs) to enabling Mona to interact with and assist people in everyday situations.