Misty Robotics Launches First Misty II Application Template for Concierge Use

LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Misty Robotics, the creators of the Misty II platform robot, today announced the launch of the Misty as a Concierge application template, which provides developers with a robust starting point to build robot skills and quickly put Misty II to work. The Misty II application templates are open source code for developers to build upon and customize for a specific assignment or task. The Misty as a Concierge application template has utility in environments such as entertainment and sports venues, hotels, eldercare, retail, commercial real estate, museums, and more.

“Since the launch of Misty II, we have received interest for a variety of use cases and wanted to provide developers a fast and easy way to get started using Misty in a business environment. One of the most popular requests has been to use Misty as a concierge or office greeter so we created the Misty as a Concierge application template to give developers a starting point to accelerate deployment,” said Ian Bernstein, Founder and Head of Product of Misty Robotics. “With more utility application templates planned in 2020, we will continue to support our mission to help the community make robots a useful part of our daily lives in business and personal settings.”

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How Lucid Sight is Revolutionizing Frontier Gaming?

We all are aware of the saying- ‘Change is the only constant.’ Well, when this change comes in the form of development or progress, then it assumes the name of “evolution.” With each and every new genre of games, the gaming industry is evolving, bringing forth a revolution.

Speaking of innovations in gaming, Lucid Sight is a developer of games that has brought tremendous transformation into frontier gaming. Founded in 2015, Los Angeles-based Lucid Sight has been focusing on frontier gaming and its supporting technologies.

Several first-person shooter games, including Space Bit Attack, have been developed and published by Lucid Sight.

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50 Female CEO's Who Rock - Jeanniey Mullen

In recent years headlines like ‘Men twice as likely to be CMOs than women’ were pretty common.

If you’ve worked in marketing for any length of time, you know that the role of CMO is already associated with high demands and turnover.

Some might argue that women in CMO roles face an even greater challenge given their underrepresentation in marketing leadership despite the marketing industry being overwhelmingly female.

While women are underrepresented as CMOs, there’s research that shows women in CMO roles are paid better (on average) than their male peers. Even more promising is that “Nearly half the marketing leadership hires in the first six months of 2019 were women“.

You might be wondering why am I writing about women marketing? For the past 10 years I have been tracking rising stars in the marketing world and recognizing social influencers in the marketing space with an annual list: Women Who Rock in Marketing.

That list started in 2010 when I was recognized on a list of social media rockstars with few if any women on it. That seemed strange.

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Misty Robotics Eyes 23 Million Developers To Build Skills Marketplace

Misty II is a fully-loaded robot that stands 14” tall and can see, smell, talk, touch, move and emote right out-of-the-box. Anyone who knows Javascript or C# can bring their code to life on its platform and this openness has made it possible to build a loyal fan base among developers who freely contribute to its skill repositories. 

Ian Bernstein, Misty Robotics founder and head of product, said in a recent statement that he believes the “key to unlocking the future of robots” lies in creating open platforms for the more than 23 millionsoftware developers worldwide who are not roboticists.

In 2015, he made it big with Sphero, the toy company he co-founded with Adam Wilson that made the app-controlled BB-8 droid from Star Wars Episode VII - The Force Awakens.

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This is how pay data can get the wage gap wrong

When a company stays mum on the topic of pay equity, often, employees fill the void by crowdsourcing and sharing their own pay. This well-intentioned but misguided effort is dangerous because it often highlights issues that are not legitimate while masking the real problems.

Case in point: the New York Times released a piece on pay equity among journalism, advertising, and book publishing industry professionals entitled “On a Dry Spreadsheet, a Stark Difference: a $200,000 Pay Gap.” The article partly focused on a public spreadsheet called “Real Media Salaries” in which those in the industry self-reported pay data and included factors like race, gender and years of experience. And the headline was referring to one instance of a difference in pay between the following: “a white, male freelance creative director in New York with 28 years of experience reported a salary of $300,000. A Latino man with the same job description in New Jersey and 25 years of experience said he made $95,000.”

The intention was worthy, but the conclusions were just plain wrong.

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