I worked on some factory floors, learning from the ground up.
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Recent examples abound from food services to factory floors and more.
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Top-down authoritarian directives built China's factory floors and high-speed rail networks.
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He met with people on factory floors and at the local Maid-Rite.
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Solving them is necessary if we're to ever deploy intelligent robots beyond factory floors.
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Peng described how Chinese factory floors were emptying out as workers were laid off.
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A court found the strikes were illegal and ordered workers back to factory floors.
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Many early credit unions were managed by workers from small offices off factory floors.
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Looks like Musk isn't going to be doing much sleeping on factory floors or elsewhere.
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These arrangements made the sexual subjugation of women in offices and on factory floors inevitable.
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And automobile makers like Ford are using exoskeletons on factory floors to reduce worker fatigue.
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He also said the technology would be installed on the carmakers' factory floors (with Aurora's help).
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Little attention is paid to what was actually happening on factory floors or in farm fields.
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We at once could hear a diverse range of opinions in heterogeneous neighborhoods and factory floors.
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As a result, people fell dead on factory floors and spread the disease to their coworkers.
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These include jobs in advanced manufacturing, where workers on factory floors increasingly deal with software and robotics.
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It's a meticulous production process, which explains why the factory floors stay a gleaming gray and white.
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They are not - as they have in banks, on factory floors and in other sectors - replacing them.
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Without proper ventilation, the chemical-rich glue (linked to cancer and other health problems) pervades factory floors.
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And that doesn't factor in the immense challenge of preventing fresh cases of infection on factory floors.
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Taylorism had its ups and downs across business schools, management consultancies, and factory floors throughout the twentieth century.
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Some factory floors for making electronic boards and products are now so large you have to drive around them!
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American builders are starting to move into prefabrication, where homes and buildings are constructed on factory floors by robots.
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In the immediate future, Canvas will be expanding production and working to get a few hundred carts onto factory floors.
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No longer confined to cages on factory floors, the machines are more and more walking, rolling, and hopping among us.
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But much less attention has been focused on the plight of blue-collar workers, like those on Ford's factory floors.
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Founded in 2014, nCinga offers an IoT platform to enable real-time production monitoring on factory floors and data analytics tools.
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Computer vision can also help analyse live video from cameras monitoring factory floors and work environments to detect when something is amiss.
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There is still an unusually large pool of applicants who can't pass drug tests, most notably in trucking and on factory floors.
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The companies' campus networks are primarily designed for use in manufacturing, including factory floors, logistics centers, as well as airports and harbors.
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More and more, this very scene is playing out not only on factory floors, but inside large corporations and across major industries.
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The programme will also establish safety committees on factory floors as mandated by law to ensure better monitoring of safety features, Hoffman said.
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New technology to help them better interact with humans means robots have begun moving beyond factory floors into homes, offices, shops and hospitals.
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"Supervision must extend all the way to factory floors, further strengthening Japanese brands, particularly in relation to technology and traditional manufacturing," he said.
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On Wednesday, Fastenal, a company that makes products like industrial supplies used on factory floors, reported better-than-expected profit and sales numbers.
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They have cleaned and rebooted systems that control robots on Renault's factory floors, trying to make sure their systems were back to normal.
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That could be applied in picking and sorting applications, which is a common enough use for robots on factory floors and in warehouses.
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In other words, the manufacturing sector would seem to have room to produce more stuff even without expanding factory floors or adding equipment.
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The Boulder-based startup is announcing its first product this morning — an autonomous cart designed to shuffle goods around chaotic and unpredictable factory floors.
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The complaints range from being barred from promotions, forced to scrub the factory floors, and allege that supervisors have directed racial slurs at employees.
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INGRAHAM: But he&aposs great when he goes to the people, and not just rallies, but the factory floors, the VFW, that humanizes him.
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If they're not held by white, blue-collar men in hard hats, working on factory floors or construction sites, they don't appear to count.
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The average wage on U.S. factory floors dropped below the average for all private-sector workers in 2006, and the gap has widened since.
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For more than a century, nurses have worked to keep people healthy, venturing out to schools, tenements, remote communities, coal mines, and factory floors.
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Ms. Tajima takes audio recordings from factory floors, assigns colors to the sound data and then has the work woven on a Jacquard loom.
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But if a shutdown blocks trade, too, it would disrupt the daily flow of $1.7 billion of goods to store shelves and factory floors.
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Right now, robots are simply too imprecise and clumsy and require too much training to be deployed on factory floors outside very narrow use cases.
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In its survey, drawn up with trade unions and rights advocates, only nine brands reported that they had found unregistered Syrian refugees on factory floors.
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You can easily imagine how many more widgets these gleaming new factory floors could produce per unit of labor input, compared to low-cost sweatshops.
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The videos spent "just a few minutes" on demolition procedures, said one participant; other videos concerned safety measures on factory floors or in steel working.
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It's true that as robots have gotten better at sensing the world, they've been freed from factory floors, where they worked in isolation from humans.
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Voters are eager for leaders willing to take meaningful steps to build a high-wage manufacturing sector, not simply pose for photos on factory floors.
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Thanks to Brooks and the companies he's founded, robots go to work on a daily basis alongside people in our homes and on our factory floors.
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But for now, even as companies add more robots to North American factory floors, the number of human jobs in manufacturing is also on the rise.
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Advocates for immigrant workers said the raids were just the most recent source of a quiet terror reverberating across factory floors since Mr. Trump took office.
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Businesses will only expand factory floors and buy new machinery and equipment if they cannot satisfy actual and expected sales from production capacities they already have.
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I talked about people who are standing on their feet on factory floors, people who lift heavy things, who sweat through their clothes, they're getting gut punched.
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China's June exports fell more than expected, while imports also saw a steeper fall than forecast, in a sign that the mainland's factory floors continued to slow.
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In other words, Italian businesses need no new machines and bigger factory floors; they already have what they need to meet the current and expected sales demand.
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The country's slowing economic growth, which has already rippled through factory floors and construction sites, is expanding into other once-thriving sectors, such as the tech industry.
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And most of the workers who remain are not the unskilled immigrants who once filled factory floors, but highly skilled workers—many of whom are native-born.
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It crunches data from some British Gas customers to anticipate energy-maintenance needs, for example; data also pour in from factory floors and farmers' fields filled with sensors.
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The added safety also means pneumatic robots wouldn't have to be locked away in giant safety cages, which take up a lot of valuable space on factory floors.
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China still makes roughly 20153% of all manufactured goods around the world — in part because of the difficulty in finding a sufficient workforce on other countries' factory floors.
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Augmented reality devices overlay images as holograms on to a user's real-life field of vision, aiming to improve efficiency at businesses ranging from doctors' offices to factory floors.
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Rick had worked for years on factory floors in California before building a small business in the Bay Area that specialized in setting up office interiors for start-ups.
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Instead, Trump argued that companies were voluntarily contacting the White House about ways they could help convert their factory floors to making products that may be in short supply.
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Early U.A.W.-backed walkouts led to the unionization of workers at G.M. in 1937 and Ford in 1941, shaping the way factory floors operated and working conditions were established.
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Or maybe even Google will get back in the consumer AR hardware game, as it's already brought an updated version of Google Glass to factory floors as an enterprise product.
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But the steady reports of weaker export orders suggest the deepening trade dispute is now adding to that pressure, with the impact starting to ripple through to China's factory floors.
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But it also has employees hand-soldering parts beneath high-powered magnifying glasses, the kind of personalized attention that can look like an anachronism on today's highly automated factory floors.
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They see replacing primarily lower-skilled workers on the assembly line with robots on American factory floors as the only way to produce here in a financially viable, cost-competitive way.
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Particularly, Particle sees demand for its devices in hard-to-reach or widely dispersed sensor networks — like industrial factory floors or in an agricultural monitoring setting for a farm or field.
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In ravaged industrial areas like Calais, anger about the impact of globalization is fierce, as unemployment tops 20 percent and the remaining factory floors rely more heavily on machinery than manpower.
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Service robots, which perform tasks useful for humans and are often mobile, are distinguished from industrial robots, which are used in automated manufacturing and are normally kept in cages on factory floors.
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Better access is viewed as a crucial part of Germany's so-called Digital Agenda, which aims among other goals to promote the digitization of industry by connecting factory floors to the internet.
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Jobs, incomes and expected business sales are additional variables that determine housing demand, purchases of consumer durable goods (aka big-ticket items), and decisions to expand factory floors and enhance production technologies.
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Background reading: • The #MeToo movement opened a global floodgate of accounts of mistreatment, but little attention has been focused on the plight of blue-collar workers, like those on Ford's factory floors.
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Unlike the traditional metal-bashing kit found on typical factory floors, which are cost-effective only for mass production, these computer-controlled marvels allow short runs and high variation, making mass customisation economic.
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But will that vigor and commitment last four or eight years past all those stops at union halls and factory floors, where working men and women wear hardhats and proudly wave American flags?
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The low-wage workforce is not a monolith; rather, it encompasses a range of jobs taking place on farms; in restaurants, hotels, and fast-food chains; on factory floors; and inside private homes.
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But it's not all a fairy tale; the ruthless Red Cargo (Nonso Anozie, from "Game of Thrones") rules the island with an iron fist, and machine gun-slinging men patrol his factory floors.
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Party cadres' explanations for this reflected deeply entrenched gender prejudices: Women have a weaker constitution and gentler temper, rendering them unfit for the strenuous tasks of operating heavy equipment or manning factory floors.
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AI-powered machines are already being used to provide customer service, manage logistics, monitor equipment on factory floors, optimize energy consumption, and analyze medical records, according to a 2017 study from consulting firm McKinsey.
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American companies are telling us that they have no incentive to invest in new machines and larger factory floors because the weak sales are being met with existing production capacities and imports from abroad.
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WASHINGTON — When surveillance cameras began popping up in the 1970s and '80s, they were welcomed as a crime-fighting tool, then as a way to monitor traffic congestion, factory floors and even baby cribs.
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And while collaborative robots are showing up on factory floors first — where automation has always debuted, taking on repetitive, heavy and hazardous work — they are likely to find their way into other workplaces soon.
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Trump's predecessors regularly used domestic travel -- to high school gyms, factory floors, national parks, and military installations -- to underscore a policy objective or pressure a home state lawmaker to back a certain piece of legislation.
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The companies accused have spanned an entire retail chain (Rent-a-Center, which paid $47 million in a class-action lawsuit brought by 5,42 women across the country) to huge farms and vast factory floors.
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Mr. Ghosn pulled on a white jumpsuit to tour factory floors, but beyond the photo ops, there were signs that his splashy — some would say autocratic — presence was out of sync with modest Japanese culture.
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"The healthcare segment has been really hot," said Emil Jensen, vice president of China sales for Denmark-based Mobile Industrial Robots, which makes customisable robots that are used both in hospitals and on factory floors.
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Even manufacturing work that remains in (or returns) to America requires knowing how to operate the computers that run today's factory floors, at least if you expect to earn anything close to a living wage.
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PRESTON, England (Reuters) - Arguments on the merits of the European Union and whether workers should gamble with their jobs by voting to leave the bloc are becoming something of an obsession on factory floors across Britain.
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But that doesn't mean Amazon won't start rolling out more and more robots to perform other tasks, or parts of that one—as Bloomberg points out, there are already 100,000 mobile robots on its factory floors.
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Nine months after The New York Times and The New Yorker revealed the allegations against Harvey Weinstein, we checked back with 20 accusers, from factory floors to Silicon Valley, to see how their lives have changed.
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Replacing factory floors for classrooms and swapping sewing machines for computers, 22 female garment workers have ditched their jobs to pursue undergraduate degrees in a first-of-its-kind course at the Asian University for Women (AUW).
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Most factory floors run 24-hours a day and include complex combinations of cutting-edge equipment and decades-old machines — making it difficult to test and maintain systems or to rely on existing cybersecurity products and tools.
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With fewer jobs available — and perhaps more robots buzzing on factory floors — experts maintain unemployment will be an ongoing concern, especially as the government works to maneuver the world's second-largest economy away from manufacturing and toward services.
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It's a shift that makes sense considering that Google intends for these devices to be used on factory floors and warehouses where the ability to quickly recharge something is more important than the aesthetics of a magnetic charger.
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Predictive analytics startup Uptake is acquiring a company that controls a huge trove of industrial data, a move that positions the tech unicorn to better compete in the race to digitize power plants, oil wells and factory floors.
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As computers began to appear in offices and robots on factory floors, President John F. Kennedy declared that the major domestic challenge of the 2168s was to "maintain full employment at a time when automation…is replacing men".
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Since at least the 1880s, the holiday has served as a worldwide time of appreciation for workers' rights and everything connected to that cause—the 40-hour workweek, Social Security, basic safety protections like keeping children off factory floors.
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They now are ubiquitous on factory floors, build complex deep-sea installations, explore icy worlds beyond the reach of humans, and assist in precision surgeries… With this growth, the research community that is engaged in robotics has expanded globally.
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He was particularly intrigued by the prospect of harnessing tech to perform tasks from a distance: At an MIT entrepreneurship competition, he pitched the idea of training workers in India to remotely operate the buffers that sweep US factory floors.
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This tells us that American companies don't see any compelling reason to expand their factory floors, or to add new capital goods, because they believe they have enough spare capacity to meet current and expected sales from existing production facilities.
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On many subsequent factory floors — smelly, hot, dirty — Pepper found her artistic being: She discovered the potential of Cor-Ten at U.S. Steel in New Jersey in the 1960s; she experimented with ductile iron at John Deere in Moline, Ill.
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Google took an early stab at a product in 2013, with Google Glass, which failed to gain traction among consumers but later found a market on factory floors and assembly lines, where workers now have hands-free access to computers.
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The management, marketing, logistics and manufacturing functions of big companies all exhibit huge amounts of planning (some of which, in areas like the layout of factory floors or the design of supply chains, may well use linear programming and related techniques).
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The United States lost nearly six million manufacturing jobs from 2000 to 2010 as companies moved production to China and other low-cost countries, increased use of machines on factory floors and scaled back operations after the 2008 financial crisis.
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The Glass timeline then goes: delivered bombastically with Google co-founder Sergey Brin skydiving into the company's annual developer conference in 2012; suffered unceremonious death with production ending in 2015; then resurrected two years later as an enterprise product for factory floors.
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Pervasive import tariffs will continue to push up prices of imported goods and services, and they will also stimulate local production in the U.S. at a time of very tight labor markets, high capacity pressures on factory floors and runaway energy prices.
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Varjo is a much more expensive solution than the already pricey options from Magic Leap and HoloLens; the XR-1 will likely see less usage on factory floors due to its form factor and is more likely suited for design and visualization needs.
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The close, intimate working conditions in coal mines and factory floors, combined with low wages and poor—even brutal—working conditions, led to some of the first labor and social justice movements of the modern era, following from the ongoing abolitionist movement.
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Often praised as a modernist architectural masterwork, the building actually included a hodgepodge of reference points: hanging light fixtures that evoke the factory floors that once dominated industrial Glasgow, and facades that at once refer to Scottish baronial castles and Italian Renaissance styles.
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The AfD's "pro-worker" platform ("pro-coal, pro-diesel and anti-immigration," as Mr. Reil puts it) resonates in Bottrop as well as on the factory floors of Germany's iconic carmakers in the former east and the wealthy south of the country.
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Nightcap: The latest news and political buzz from CNN Politics | Sign up On factory floors and in school gymnasiums, Clinton pitched her economic vision to union members, teachers and assembly line workers, most of whom described themselves as part of the lower and middle classes.
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We have a wonderful nation, an incredible culture, but there are dark elements that allow unconscionable levels, unacceptable levels, of sexual assault and harassment that are affecting girls and boys and affecting men and women from big media outlets to corporations to factory floors.
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Washington (CNN)If President Donald Trump follows through on his threat to close the US-Mexico border, it would disrupt the flow of $1.7 billion of goods daily to store shelves and factory floors -- including not just avocados, but beer and car parts, too.
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That could one day, OpenAI hopes, help humanity develop the kinds of humanoid robots we know only from science fiction, robots that can safely operate in society without endangering us and perform a wide variety of tasks in environments as chaotic as city streets and factory floors.
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It's primarily for jobs in construction and on factory floors as well as in the medical field and other disciplines that can make use of a simpler heads-up display and that don't (yet) require something like a full-blown mixed reality device like Microsoft HoloLens.
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Whether we've seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the American people -- in living rooms and schools; at farms and on factory floors; at diners and on distant outposts -- are what have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept me going.
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Whether we've seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the American people - in living rooms and schools; at farms and on factory floors; at diners and on distant outposts - are what have kept me honest, kept me inspired, and kept me going.
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The discreet launch reflects the daunting hurdles confronting the nascent industry of augmented reality, known in the industry as AR. Such devices overlay images as holograms onto a user's real-life field of vision, with the goal of improving efficiency at businesses ranging from doctors' offices to factory floors.
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The women who have bravely shared stories of harassment and abuse at the hands of powerful men this year — whether on film sets or in newsrooms; on factory floors or in congressional offices — stand on Ms. Graham's shoulders, as do the trailblazing female reporters who drew attention to their plight.
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Workers have their own ideas about how to make lasting change in the culture — having the equivalent of undercover cops walking the factory floors, plastering signs all over the plants warning about sexual harassment, punishing Ford with a far more painful settlement than $10 million, one on the scale of a recall.
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A spokesperson for PG (formerly known as Procter & Gamble), the maker of Tampax as well as toilet paper, paper towels, cleaning supplies, and other essential personal care products, told us that the company is working day and night to make more products while still maintaining social distancing recommendations on its factory floors.
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Whether we have seen eye-to-eye or rarely agreed at all, my conversations with you, the American people — in living rooms and in schools; at farms and on factory floors; at diners and on distant military outposts — those conversations are what have kept me honest, and kept me inspired, and kept me going.
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The accelerator program, created by the Seattle-based network of startup founders and investors called the Female Founders Alliance, is today announcing its second batch of companies, a group that includes a sextech business, an AI-powered tool for podcasters and a line of workwear created for women who work on farms, construction sites and factory floors.
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"As the world enters the next wave of innovation in IoT where the connected objects such as buildings, equipment or factory floors need to be understood in the context of their environments, Azure Digital Twins provides a complete picture of the relationships and processes that connect people, places and devices," the company explains in today's announcement.
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For the Ford women, the harassment has endured even though they work for a multinational corporation with a professional human resources operation, even though they are members of one of the country's most powerful unions, even though a federal agency and then a federal judge sided with them, and even after independent monitors policed the factory floors for several years.
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" She is especially sharp about the failures of trickle-down economics, which was supposed to help everyone on the planet: "What has happened instead is that the indifference to life that was expressed in the exploitation of individual workers on factory floors and in the decimation of individual mountains and rivers has instead trickled up to swallow our entire planet.
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At the top of his remarks, the president pointed to the havoc the virus has begun to wreak on the economy, telling reporters in the White House briefing room that the pandemic would require a response unseen since World War II. "Every generation of Americans has been called to make shared sacrifices for the good of the nation," he told reporters, offering examples like teenagers volunteering to fight in the war and workers sleeping on factory floors.
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In Egypt, too, the real story of unrest lay not in Hosni Mubarak's presidential palace but in the mundane spaces where norms were shifting: in the tuk-tuks, previously confined to the informal settlements on the margins of the capital, which now honked their way defiantly into the city center; in the schoolchildren re-enacting battles against the security forces on their playground; in the low-level insurgencies waged in family dining rooms, college lecture halls and factory floors across the country.
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