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Off the Shelf vs Custom Software: Making the Right Choice for Your Business

Trigent

Here’s all that you need to make an informed choice on off the shelf vs custom software. While doing so, they have two choices – to buy a ready-made off-the-shelf solution created for the mass market or get a custom software designed and developed to serve their specific needs and requirements.

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Human toddlers are inspiring new approaches to robot learning

TechCrunch

Organizations have spent decades building complex datasets and pioneering different ways to teach systems to perform new tasks. Last month, Google’s DeepMind robotics team showed off its own impressive work, in the form of RT-2 (Robotic Transformer 2). The system is able to abstract away minutia of performing a task.

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Growing Leaders Who are Confident, Skilled and Human-Centered (Mistakes to Avoid)

Let's Grow Leaders

And of course, when you’re giving feedback be sure to also recognize what’s working. And of course, when you’re giving feedback be sure to also recognize what’s working. This is no cookie-cutter, stale-off-the-shelf program. Three Mistakes that Will Sabotage Growing Leaders 1.

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Gather AI secures new cash to scan inventory in warehouses using drones

TechCrunch

The trio had the idea to use drones to gather data — specifically data in warehouses, such as the number of items on a shelf and the locations of particular pallets. Arora co-founded Gather AI in 2019 with Daniel Maturana and Geetesh Dubey, graduate students at Carnegie Mellon’s Robotics Institute.

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Pickle launches its truck unloading robot arm

TechCrunch

It’s no surprise, of course. It’s an important area, of course, but anyone entering the category these days would be well served examining other elements of the space. Somewhere along the way, ProMat turned into a robotics show. Logistics and automation go hand in hand these days. Third is Pickle, a newcomer to the space.

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5 questions CIOs must ask after Southwest Airlines’ failure

CIO

They also received $7 billion in pandemic aid and performed $5.6 In 2017, Fast Company wrote that Southwest Airlines’ digital transformation “takes off” with an $800 million technology overhaul, but only $300 million was dedicated to new technology for operations. 19-28 far exceeded any other airlines’ operational impacts.

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Freshflow is helping grocery retailers fight food waste

TechCrunch

The reasons manual reordering has persisted for this (fresh) segment of grocery retail are myriad, according to Mukhija — including short (but non-uniform) shelf lives; quality variation; seasonality; and products often being sold by weight rather than piece, which complicates ERP inventory data. revenue boost. million tonnes.

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