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TechServe Alliance announced the addition of 431,000 non-farm jobs with the unemployment rate dropping to 3.6%. Yet, for sectors such as IT, growth is elusive continuing a year-long pattern of being flat. Employment in IT in March showed…

FedEx Express is joining with Elroy Air to build the first end-to-end autonomous vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aerial cargo system. FedEx Express will develop plans to test Elroy Air’s Chaparral autonomous air cargo system for…

Boston Dynamics announced that while its Stretch Robot was now available for commercial orders, it seems the robot is sold out for the rest of this year. They are now accepting orders for delivery through 2024. Stretch unloads…

Retail auto sales will increase 3.2% annually in unit terms through 2025, says Motor Vehicles: United States, a report released by Freedonia Focus Reports. Suppliers will benefit from still-low interest rates and slowly improving supply…

From a sourcing perspective, there are three key things that have impacted the market: lead times. pricing and inflation, and transportation, lead time and costs. All of these areas have ballooned over the last couple of years. Not only…

When we think of machine learning, we see the AI model progressively make decisions based on millions of data inputs and cumulative reasoning, however unlike humans, decisions are made one at a time and then evaluated manually. A…

By Carolyn Mathas There is a lack of robot dexterity partly because artificial grippers are missing the fine tactile sense of the human fingertip. Two papers published in the Journal of the Royal Society Interface provide the…

By Carolyn Mathas Researchers used the ‘robot scientist’ Eve and automated text analysis to semi-automate reproducing research results. Reproducibility is a major challenge in science. Led by the University of Cambridge,…

By Carolyn Mathas 3D printing, creates objects by addition of material, layer by layer and metal powder is typically used. The powder is produced using atomisation, in which a molten metal stream is broken up into fine droplets using air…

According to a Gartner survey, IT workers have a 10.2% lower intent to stay in their current job than non-IT employees. Surveying 18,000 employees in Q4 2021, including 1,755 employees in the IT function in 40 different countries in 15…