Stoel Rives | Deeply Rooted Podcast S3E3: AgTech Innovation and Robotics with Burro CEO Charlie Andersen
RPA As A Digital Transformation Catalyst
In today’s global economy, product research and development (R&D) has historically been concentrated in the U.S. and China. However, these efforts are beginning to decentralize and spread into new regions, such as Japan and...more
Implications for CFIUS Reporting and Review - The Executive Branch, through the National Science and Technology Council and the National Security Council, committed in 2020 to identify that are potentially significant to...more
In this episode of the Stoel Rives Deeply Rooted Podcast, host Patrick Abell sits down with Charlie Andersen, co-founder and CEO of Burro, a pioneering company in agricultural robotics. Charlie shares his fascinating journey...more
Know Your Customer (KYC) is a fundamental process used by Financial Institutions (FIs) to verify the identities of their customers and assess the associated financial crime risk. Its primary goal is to prevent money...more
Morrison Foerster is pleased to share with our clients and friends the results of our 2023 Tech M&A Survey, published in conjunction with Mergermarket. Mergermarket surveyed 300 dealmakers from around the world in order to...more
We are probably still years away from Wall Street being overrun by actual robots. Nonetheless, artificial intelligence (AI) tools are divisively integrating into all aspects of society—from the classroom to the courtroom....more
Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning applications like ChatGPT are the hot new technologies expected to changes our lives fundamentally. Taking the human element out of monotonous tasks promises to increase...more
The Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited (“Exchange”) has recently published a Consultation Paper on the proposed new listing regime for Specialist Technology Companies on the Main Board by introducing a new Chapter 18C. The...more
If artificial intelligence keeps improving, automating ever more jobs, what will happen? Many people are job optimists, arguing that the automated jobs will be replaced by new ones that are even better. After all, that is...more
...Robots are everywhere – but perhaps just not how everyone imagined them. For decades, the promise of robots brought to mind devices like R2D2 and C3PO, or perhaps Rosie the Robot from The Jetsons – autonomous, intelligent...more
The Law Reform Committee (LRC) of the Singapore Academy of Law (SAL) established a Subcommittee on Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to consider and make recommendations regarding the application of the law to AI systems....more
Hyundai is reportedly in the process of purchasing a large controlling interest in robot innovator Boston Dynamics from SoftBank in a deal valued at $1.1 billion. The transaction, under which Hyundai will reportedly obtain...more
This article is the fifth in a five-part series. Each of these articles relates to the state of machine-learning patentability in the United States during 2019. Each of these articles describe one case in which the PTAB...more
On 19 February 2020, the European Commission released a white paper with its long-awaited proposals on regulating artificial intelligence. The white paper contains far-reaching proposals that, if adopted, could have a...more
Thirteen states and the District of Columbia are suing to block the $26 billion plan to merge T-Mobile US Inc. and Sprint Corp. The trial is slated to begin today with state officials arguing the deal would create “a more...more
On August 26, 2019, Laura Peter, the Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for Intellectual Property and Deputy Director of the USPTO, posted an update on the USPTO’s efforts to promote and protect AI-technology innovations and...more
Florida is the latest state to allow vehicles to operate on the road without a steering wheel. In doing so, Florida became the third state after Michigan and Texas to allow vehicles on its roads without a human even having...more
Robotic process automation (RPA) is a promising new technology — except that lots of compliance officers might already use this technology and not know it. There’s an even larger chance that you are already facing compliance...more
OSHA recently announced that it is considering whether it should revise the Control of Hazardous Energy (Lockout/Tagout (LOTO)) standard to accommodate recent technological advances concerning control circuit-type devices....more
Robotic process automation (RPA) is here and companies at the forefront of the adoption of this technology are reaping a variety of benefits....more
By all accounts 2019 will bring significant expansion in the use and development of artificial intelligence (AI) by the U.S. federal government. Notwithstanding some well-publicized rejections by industry of the use of their...more
Customers in outsourcing arrangements are coming to expect (or starting to demand) that their providers have the resources, technology, and know-how to leverage automation software—whether robotics desktop automation (RDA) or...more
The development and deployment of increasingly sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI), robots, and other automated systems are transforming workplaces globally, redefining needed workforce roles, skills, and jobs, and...more
On November 12, 2018, Littler Mendelson P.C. hosted a Roundtable of distinguished leaders from government, industry, and academia to discuss the rapid evolution of the workplace and workforce due to AI, robotics, and other...more
Artificial intelligence (AI) encompasses technologies that have become increasingly relevant — and strategically important — to companies of all sizes across a wide range of fields. For example, AI technologies such as...more