查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“More particularly, the field of the invention relates to equi pment used to perform maintenance operationson a 20-high type rolling mill. For example, a 20-high rolling mill is known from the prior documentsU.S. Pat. Nos . 5,193,377 and 5,471,859. In such a rolling mill, the rolls (and sets of backup rollers)are distributed into a lower group GI and an upper group Gs, and according to a symmetric configurationwith respect to a running plane of the metal strip to be rolled. For example, FIG. 5 of the document U.S.Pat. No. 5,193,377 illustrates the upper group with a work roll, two first intermediate r olls, three secondintermediate rolls, and four sets of backup rollers.
查看更多>>摘要：News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:““The present disclosure relates generally to manufacturing assemblies and in par ticular, to determiningthe pose of a wire contact for use in moving wires in a wire bundling assembly process.“In manufacturing commercial aircraft, wires are often installed in bundles to f orm wire harnesses. Thisprocess involves wires being fed and cut by the machine into desired lengths. Wire contacts are attachedto the wires. These wires are placed into a location for assembly using robots. These wires can then bemanipu lated by a robot with an end effector to form a wire bundle. This robotic end ef fector can be orcan have a wire contact insertion tool.
查看更多>>摘要：News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Chemical recycling aims to break down plastic waste into t he monomeric building blocks it was producedfrom, enabling a circular economy i n which polymers are produced from chemically recycled plastics insteadof relyi ng on nonrenewable inputs derived from petroleum. Plastic recycling may include the conversion ofwaste plastics (polyethylene terephthalate (PET), polylactic a cid (PLA)) into their monomer components(bis(2-hydroxyethyl) terephthalate (BHE T), lactate, respectively) to replace virgin plastics derived fromoil. Ionic li quids (ILs) are a highly tunable class of chemicals that has shown a promising a bility todepolymerize plastics in liquid-phase depolymerization reactions, but it’s unclear how to navigate the largesolid catalyst design space to improve re action yields and find prospective solid state catalysts for specificdepolymeri zation reactions.
查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Aspart of determining whether to grant a user access to cont ent (e.g., as part of determining whether toprovide a caller access to a teleph one system that provides banking information), a user of the user devicemay be prompted with one or more authentication questions. Such questions may relate to , for example,a password of the user, a personal identification number (PIN) of the user, or the like. Those questionsmay additionally and/or alternatively be generated based on personal information of the user. For example,when setting up an account, a user may provide a variety of answers to predetermined question s (e.g.,“Where was your father born?,” “Who was your best friend in high school ?”), and those questions may bepresented to the user as part of an authenticati on process. As another example, a commercially-availabledatabase of personal in formation may be queried to determine personal information for a user (e.g., the irbirthdate, birth location, etc.), and that information may be used to generat e an authentication question(e.g., “Where were you born, and in what year?”). A potential downside of these types of authentication questions is that the corre ct answers may be obtainable and/or guessable for someone who has informationab out a particular user.
查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors:“An autonomous cleaning robot can navigate across a floor surf ace and avoid obstacles while vacuumingthe floor surface and operating rotatabl e members carried by the robot to ingest debris from the floorsurface. As the r obot moves across the floor surface, the robot can rotate the rotatable members, whichengage the debris and guide the debris toward a vacuum airflow generated by the robot. The rotatablemembers and the vacuum airflow can thereby cooperate to allow the robot to ingest debris.”
查看更多>>摘要：Reporters obtained the following quote from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Avirtual agent is an artificial intelligence (AI) element th at provides customer services to a user. For example,a virtual agent may be a s oftware agent that can perform tasks or services for the user based on verbal commands or questions. In some implementations, a user may ask the virtual agent q uestions, control homeautomation devices and media playback devices, and manage other tasks, e.g., manage emails, to-do lists,calendars, or the like. However, these tasks or services are pre-defined by an administrator of the virtualagen t and are thus static in nature. Consequently, the user is beholden to the tasks or services that arepre-defined by the administrator.
查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied by theinventors: “For example, Japanese Patent Application Public ation No. 2015-157683 discloses a storageand retrieval system including a stora ge rack for storing an article. In the storage and retrieval system, atransport ation cart is capable of autonomously traveling along a travel rail located on t he storage rack isused to transport an article.
查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “With the development of science and technology, more and more industries begin to userobots to replace human work. The robots generally realize operating functions by stretching, rotating,moving, and the l ike. Therefore, operational performance of the robots is closely related to an e xperienceeffect.
查看更多>>摘要：The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background informa tion supplied bythe inventors: “Generally, bartenders serve a variety of bevera ges including wine, mocktails, cocktails,and the like to multiple guests of com mercial establishments, such as bar, restaurants, cafe and the like.However, th ere are multiple issues associated with such bartenders, such as high cost, fati gue, increasedtime of serving, and the like. Also, such bartenders are required to be train for serving the beveragewhich consumes a lot of time and efforts o f the commercial establishments. Further, the bartendersalso require breaks and leaves during the period of their employment which may result in loss of business of the commercial establishments. Usually, organizations and firms organize t heir private meetings insuch commercial establishments to discuss specific agen das. The presence of bartenders in such privatemeetings may affect attendee’s p rivacy, confidentiality, and comfort.
查看更多>>摘要：News editors obtained the following quote from the background information suppli ed by the inventors:“Skiers, while on vacation, spend hours of valuable time in specialty ski shops purchasing ski boots thatneed to be custom fitted. The ski er must be physically present for this to be accomplished. It takes timeto mold , grind, punch and build custom ski boots with custom footbeds. It also takes ex pertise to createa custom comfortable fit. This time spent in an establishment takes away from the skier’s time on theslopes, time with family, and other vaca tion activities. You cannot currently purchase a custom fittedski boot on the i nternet because the skier’s physical legs and feet have to be present. Therefore , thereis a need for custom fitted ski boots to be able to be purchased off the internet, without the skier beingphysically present and prior to a skier going on his or her ski vacation.”
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