All posts tagged: robots

Assorted links for 08/13/2019

August 13, 2019
by Nikodem Tomczak
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1. Understanding China’s robot phenomenon (innovation) China is the world’s largest user of industrial robots. In 2016, sales of industrial robots in the country reached 87,000 units, accounting for around 30 per cent of the global market. To put this number in perspective, robot sales in all of Europe and the Americas in 2016 reached 97,300 units (according to data from the International Federation of Robotics). In addition, between 2005 and 2016, the operational stock […]

Assorted links for 08/06/2019

August 6, 2019
by Nikodem Tomczak
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1. How Mosquitoes Changed Everything by Brooke Jarvis They slaughtered our ancestors and derailed our history. And they’re not finished with us yet. 2. The Sparta Fetish Is a Cultural Cancer by Myke Cole The myth of the mighty warrior-state has enchanted societies for thousands of years. Now it fuels a global fascist movement. (…) That the legend has little to do with the real Spartans would be an academic point, but this myth has […]