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August 5, 2020 Podcast: How Automated Robots Are Supporting the Surge in E-commerce The global pandemic has accelerated adoption of e-commerce, in many cases stretching fulfillment capacity to its limits—but a new generation of more affordable commercial robots are emerging to help retailers and manufacturers meet this growing demand. In a recent episode of  Exchanges at Goldman Sachs , Goldman Sachs Research’s Heath Terry spoke with Insight Partners’ Deven Parekh, Fetch Robotics’ Melonee Wise, and Nuro.AI’s Dave Ferguson about the future of e-commerce and the role that robotic automation is playing in the adaptation of warehouse and fulfillment networks. “We've been developing some new features in our software to help support the pandemic, like contact tracing, social distancing tools…Now we take over most of the short movements between stations so people don't have to interact with each other,” Wise said. She sees the much-anticipated use case of last-mile delivery as a diffi...

July 28, 2020 Talks at GS With Dell Technologies Chairman and CEO Michael Dell Above (L to R): David Solomon of Goldman Sachs and Michael Dell of Dell Technologies Michael Dell has long believed that “technology is about enabling human potential,” and the recent acceleration of the digital transformation has only deepened that view. “The impact continues to amaze me and it continues to grow,” Dell told Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO David Solomon during a recent episode of  Talks at GS . “I think we're seeing this rapid emergence of a connected and intelligent world, where all the physical objects are becoming instrumented and connected and digitized. 5G is about connecting things; 4G was about connecting people. And if you think you have lots of data now, you'll have a thousand times more in a few years. And so the combination of 5G, AI, IoT all reinforce each other and I think are going to enable us to do more than we've ever imagined.” Dell called the rollout of 5G a “...