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At the warehouses of British online grocery company Ocado Technology, robots, guided by AI, whizz around on rails at speeds of up to four metres per second, picking a 50-item order in minutes. The journeys then taken by Ocado’s delivery trucks are optimised by a neural network that makes more than 14 million last-mile routing calculations per second, and adjusts delivery routes each time a customer places a new order or adds extra items to their shopping lists.
But Ocado’s most ambitious automation efforts involve packing robots. At the time of writing the company has five robotic picking arms powered by computer vision, and other machine-learning systems that can identify the products that need to be packed and use suction power to grab them. Further advances, undertaken in conjunction with two European academic-led projects, are in the pipeline.
Students Optimistic About Future of Family Medicine
Students Optimistic About Future of Family Medicine
January 27, 2021, 8:42 am David Mitchell Last year was a tough one for everyone, and although family physicians were often in the news for stepping up and saving the day, there were also stories of hardship that rose to the level of national news. But here at the start of 2021, students are showing hope about the future of medicine especially family medicine. We asked some of the AAFP’s student leaders what they are excited about, and here is what they shared.
AAFP News: What do you wish your medical school peers understood about family medicine? How does family medicine align with your career aspirations?
Two high-ranking executives at Google Health have left in the past three months, and another is planning to leave, Business Insider has learned.
Michael Macdonnell, Google Health s director of global deployment, left in September for the UK upstart Sensyne Health; UK lead Dr. Dominic King left in October for Optum; and Shashidhar Thakur, a search expert and vice president of engineering, is due to leave Google Health in January and switch to Google s commerce wing.
Google Health confirmed the departures to Business Insider and said Anurag Agarwal, an engineering vice president who has spearheaded work on clinical tools, would lead the group s engineering efforts moving forward. Macdonnell and King declined to comment. Thakur did not respond to Business Insider s requests for comment.