Assignment 1
Title: Grubhub, Starship Technologies Partner to Expand Robot Delivery Service
The article highlights the groundbreaking technology by Starship Technology. The company is expanding its autonomous robot delivery services across university campuses. The firm has collaborated with Grubhub, which has a food delivery app (IoT World Today, 2023). The report suggests that twenty autonomous robots will be rolled out at East Carolina University and Baylor University (IoT World Today, 2023). The delivery bots will come in handy in enhancing the student experience on campus and making dining much easier. The intelligent robots will also add aesthetic value around the campuses (IoT World Today, 2023). Smarty robots utilize a combination of artificial intelligence, sensors, and machine learning to execute their primary role, delivery.
These robots use a combination of technology to deliver various goods around the campus. Dining is one of the essential aspects of the campus (IoT World Today, 2023). The students and instructors are often heavily engaged in multiple such that they do not have time to go to restaurants and grab something to eat (IoT World Today, 2023). However, this problem seems to have been solved, especially with this autonomous robot delivery service. The expansion of the autonomous root delivery service and the partnership with Grubhub boils down to the advancement in the IoT (IoT World Today, 2023). The fact that intelligent robots release zero emissions proves a combination of technology in place. IoT is also used to ensure that various systems are energy efficient, which goes a long way in ensuring zero emissions.
Question: Considering the potential use of artificial intelligence in the delivery business, how is it likely to disrupt the supply chain in the future?
References:
IoT World Today. (2023, February 3). Grubhub, Starship Technologies Partner to Expand Robot Delivery Service. https://www.iotworldtoday.com. https://www.iotworldtoday.com/robotics/grubhub-starship-technologies-partner-to-expand-robot-delivery-service
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Assignment 2
Question1：Liberty Taxes is a Nanaimo based firm specializing in preparing Canadian Income Tax forms for their
individual and corporate clients. Liberty processes only two types of income tax returns; the T-1
Return for individual clients and the Corporate Return for corporate clients. Three separate
departments within Liberty Tax, whether it is a T-1 or a Corporate Return, check each return. These
departments are called the Deductions, Income and Arithmetic departments and have respectively
990 hours, 900 hours and 600 hours of labour hours available each processing cycle. Each T-1
Return needs 1.5 Deduction hour, 2 Income hours and 1.25 Arithmetic hours and each Corporate
Return need 9 Deduction hours, 6 Income hours and 5 Arithmetic hours.
Returns not completed during one processing cycle are completed during the next processing cycle.
Management requires that the company process at least 50, T-1 Returns each processing cycle. The
profit contributions for each T-1 and Corporate Return processed by Liberty Tax are $30 and $100
respectively
question2：
A farmer in Iowa owns 45 acres of land. He is going to plant each acre with wheat and corn. Each
acre planted with wheat yields $200 profit, requires 3 workers, and requires 2 tons of fertilizer; each
acre planted with corn yields $300 profit, requires 2 workers, and requires 4 tons of fertilizer. 100
workers and 120 tons of fertilizer are available.
Question3：
The Newtech Corporation produces two digital switches Type X and Type Y. The profit contributions
per switch are $50 and $80 respectively. The products pass through 3 production departments:
Assembly, Painting and Testing that have respectively 1,140 hours, 608 hours and 1,500 hours
available each week. The company must also meet minimum demand by producing at least 90 Type
X switches. The company is interested in maximizing its weekly profit.
Each Type X switch requires 1 hour in Assembly, 1 hour in Painting and 3 hours in Testing and each
Type Y switch requires 3 hours in Assembly, 1 hour in Painting and 1 hour in Testing.
Switches not completed in one week are completed during the following week.
