Comment: Machines meeting those who think like machines. Cause for celebration? If you are non-human - flesh or silicon - very probably.
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New Scientist
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New Scientist
Hillary Clinton, Richard Branson and Michael Jackson have all done it.
Today a multi-jointed, people-friendly robot arm, called UR5, became
the first non-human to ring the bell at the NASDAQ stock exchange, a
twice daily act that marks the opening and closing of the market in
Times Square, New York.
NASDAQ offers its bell-ringing up to companies, heads-of-state and community leaders as a means to make announcements or celebrate important milestones – Mark Zuckerberg rang the bell the day Facebook went public, for example.
UR5 was chosen to mark the launch of the first robot-specific stock market index, ROBO-STOX, which allows investors to track the value of the robotics industry as a whole.
"It is a very exciting step for us, and an
exciting step for the robot industry as a whole," says Esben Østergaard
of Universal Robots in Odense, Denmark, which makes UR5. "The world
needs robots, and we are very happy to be chosen to represent this
important event in the history of robot technology."
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