Category Archives: Production Operations

Robots to the People

Robot as your office mate?

(Video) Can This $400K Beer-Fetching Robot Work In An Office? | Manufacturing Business Technology

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Read another article about Willow Garage here in Technology Review.

Open-Source Robots Distributed – Technology Review

 

Textbooks, an interresting business

Viewpoints on the rise of digital textbook publishing. More folks are using it, more professors are choosing it. It says that 70% of students who do not buy the book say they would have done better if they had had their copy.

News: The Secondary Cost of Digital – Inside Higher Ed

 

How to get a job

From the Wall Street Journal– your resume should be long, neat, and online. Emphasize what you did and results, not where you sat.

The New Résumé Rules | LinkedIn