Designing the Robot Revolution

In this week's episode: Engineers have been working to create a robot to help with picking and taking care of Strawberries A Fast Food brand in the US trials “Voice AI - drive-through assistant” Gartner’s latest report on how explosive AI use by businesses is being hampered by scalability challenges In Academia, sloppy use of Machine Learning is creating a reproducibility crisis Historical referen...

In this episode, inspired a world imagined in TV Show The Jetsons, Jacob and David discuss the potential near future for combined robotics and AI. Embodied AI involves working with real world physical systems and robots that use AI to interact with the physical world whilst learning from their interactions. Researchers in this field of AI are moving away from a strictly algorithm-led approach and...

In this week's episode: Google announces PaLM-SayCan - language models for Everyday Robots Amazon buy home vacuum cleaning robotics company iRobot Former Facebook exec prototypes the “iPhone of Killer Robots” Exoskeletons at the 2022 World Robot Conference in Beijing, Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we talk to Anastacia Simonchik and Peter Tyrholt from Visiba Care . We discuss the evolution of their virtual care platform, how they work practically with AI/automation, lessons they've learned innovating in this space, what the future of healthcare might look like and what they are most excited (or fearful of) when it comes to AI/automation in healthcare. Designing the Robot Revo...

In this episode Jacob and David discuss their favourite moments from Season 1 including their top "lessons learned". Reflecting on why Automation, Robotics and AI are so fascinating at the moment this episode also looks ahead to Season 2 outlining what listeners can expect from future episodes landing this autumn. Enjoy! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Creating wonderful automation requires plenty of collaboration between subject matter experts, which can take a lot of time and sometimes make for slow progress. Are there better ways we could approach how teams collaborate on automation work in order to get us more speed? In this episode, we explore exactly that topic including discussing the two thought pieces linked below. "If we’re all so busy...

In this episode we interview two experts in the field of robot journalism - Cecilia Campbell and Mikael Törnwall. Together we explore what the increase in automated content means for journalists, how readers are responding and what we can expect to see in this space over the coming years. The future of journalism in a networked society - a paper by Ericsson from 2017 authored by Mikael Törnwall. U...

In this episode David and Jacob Go on a deep dive into qualitative analysis. The Journal that we reference can be found here Jacob's course for beginners wanting to get in to qualitative analysis can be found at Skillshare ! The this is service design doing methods library, which is great, can be found here ! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode David and Jacob Discuss autonomous shipping and how it has the possibility to transform the way we get goods delivered to us, making it less damaging for the environment, making the work of sailors less taxing and decreasing shipping costs, all in one go. Also in this episode, Jacob and David are introduced to the concept of actor-centric versus activity-centric perspectives when c...

In this episode Jacob and David talk to Katarina Cornelius, author of Disrupting Digital. Get your E-book copy of Disrupting Digital here ! Or the Swedish version E-book here ! A physical copy of the Swedish version can be found under this link ! Last in the episode we discuss our previous episode The Limitless Possibilities of a Data Driven Company and some comments we received on Linkedin. If yo...

Jacob and David discuss how they can't wait for digital assistants to do the hard work for us. Home insurance, moments of need, price comparisons and how the customer experience could be much better with robots. Also in this episode, who is responsible if an AI gives bad advice and how can we avoid that happening? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode, David and Jacob discuss the balance that has to be struck when working with user centricity in a b2b development context. When David speaks about features in B2B context he is in part referring to what is said in this opinion-piece on linkedin. And here is another interesting perspective on the same issue.  We also reference a McKinsey article that we have made an episode on...

In this episode, we speak to Carl Henrikson, an innovation and digital transformation leader who has been helping companies work with innovation for more than twenty years. We sat down with Carl to talk about the role of innovation management in automation initiatives, what it actually means to be "innovative", what we can learn inspirational success cases and catastrophic failures alike. Finally,...

Today we will be discussing an article from McKinsey. The article sets a goal for what a data-driven organization in 2025 will be, what the future uses of data will be, both inside and outside organizations, based on technological advancements. We then discuss the seemingly limitless possibilities of a data-driven future and how it will affect healthcare, facilities management, and our ability to...

In this episode, we discuss the benefits for service designers to work in manufacturing. And why we are being welcomed with open arms into the manufacturing space. We also talk about some of the challenges that arise when introducing the service design toolkit and mindset in this context. If you want to read more about service design and manufacturing: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/3204...

A Podcast where we discuss Industry 5.0 and Service Design. In this episode we discuss how: Digital services aimed at making us more productive and our relationship with these services. Increasing data quality is effecting the possibilities of creating services. X5WmZZay4m1wByNmR6bm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.