Month: January 2022

obotics engineers are designing and manufacturing more robots that resemble and behave like humans—with a growing number of real-world applications. For example, humanoid service robots (SRs) were critical to continued healthcare and other services during the COVID-19 pandemic, when safety and social distancing requirements made human services less viable,

In 2020 and 2021, the world learned a harsh lesson about our shared dependency and the inherent vulnerability of modern global supply chains. For decades, supply chains have evolved from mostly domestic and linear operations to become global, interdependent networks that prioritize cost efficiency. It is this relentless focus on efficiency that has made this ecosystem vulnerable; the internationalization of supply chains to take advantage of favorable economic conditions abroad made COVID-19 restrictions and climate-related events all the more disruptive.