Since industrial robots cannot be easily adapted to assist human activities in everyday environments such as in hospitals, homes, offices, there is a growing need for robots that can interact with a person in a human-like manner. Wheel robots sometimes cannot be used in such kinds of environments because of the obvious restrictions posed by the use of wheels. For example, it is impossible for t...

In a previous communication [1], we highlighted the inaugural 2023 IEEE Conference on AI (IEEE CAI 2023) - https://cai.ieee.org/2023/ our first conference with an industry focus. is structured along six verticals, covering Industrial AI, in Healthcare/Life Science, Transportation/Aerospace, Energy, Earth System Decision Support, and Social Implications of AI/Privacy (Fig. 1). Here focus second ...

The declining availability of natural resources and the environmental impacts of continued extraction of primary resources for production activities have forced greater focus on waste streams and recycling activities. Industrial ecology as a field of practice and theory has been closely related to sustainability issues, yet despite the development of much theory and specific tools and methodolo...