Electric and Autonomous car

Move over Saudi Arabia, Russia and Venezuela: New Energy Giants are going to be Australia, Chile and DRC

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Background We noted an interesting article by Roger Boyes in the London Times on November 14th, 2018. He predicted that the push to produce electric cars worldwide would alter the dynamic of the existing energy-producing countries. The International Energy Agency has forecast that oil use by cars will peak in seven years because of the […]

Jobs and Automation

Robots Making Robots

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Factory Runs By Robots to Make Robots Swiss robotics company ABB has revealed that it’s spending US$150 million to build an advanced robotics factory in Shanghai — one that will use robots to build robots. The company will rely on its YuMi single-arm robots, which it once used to conduct an orchestra, for small parts […]