MIT researchers are training a robot arm to play Jenga
By: Brian Heater January 30, 2019 Turns out training a robotic arm to play Jenga is a surprisingly complex task. There are, so to speak, a lot of moving parts. Researchers at MIT are putting a modified ABB IRB 120 to work with the familiar tabletop game, utilizing a soft gripper, force-sensing wrist joint and […]
Amazon puts delivery robots on streets – with a human in tow
By: Alex Hern January 24, 2019 Amazon’s drone delivery service may be missing in action but the company has not given up on its dream of robots delivering parcels. It is launching Amazon Scout, a service employing six squat six-wheeled delivery robots, across Snohomish County, Washington, just north of its Seattle HQ. “These devices were […]
Automation and Artificial Intelligence: How machines are affecting people and places
By: Brookings January 24, 2019 At first, technologists issued dystopian alarms about the power of automation and artificial intelligence (AI) to destroy jobs. Then came a correction, with a wave of reassurances. Now, the discourse appears to be arriving at a more complicated understanding, suggesting that automation will bring neither apocalypse nor utopia, but instead […]
Robots Aren’t Yet Killing Off All Our Jobs, World Bank Says
By: Natalia Drozdiak January 3, 2019 The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank chief economist said, despite common gloomy predictions that humans are set to be replaced by machines. While advanced economies have shed industrial jobs over the last two decades, the […]
How robots change the world Oxford Economics
By: Oxford Economics June 2019 The robotics revolution is rapidly accelerating, as fast-paced technological advances in automation, engineering, energy storage, artificial intelligence and machine learning converge. The far-reaching results will transform the capabilities of robots and their ability to take over tasks once carried out by humans. Already, the number of robots in use worldwide […]
Robot Janitors Are Coming to Mop Floors at a Walmart Near You
By: Pavel Alpeyev December 3, 2018 Robots are coming to a Walmart Inc. near you, and not just as a gimmick. The world’s largest retailer is rolling out 360 autonomous floor-scrubbing robots in some of its stores in the U.S. by the end of the January, it said in a joint statement with Brain Corp., […]
Automation and AI Are Going to Decimate Middle Class Jobs
By: Business Insider December 02, 2018 Artificial intelligence and increasing automation is going to decimate middle class jobs, worsening inequality and risking significant political upheaval, Stephen Hawking has warned. In a column in The Guardian, the world-famous physicist wrote that “the automation of factories has already decimated jobs in traditional manufacturing, and the rise of […]
Here are the 21 jobs you may be doing in 10 years, now robots are here – Business Insider
By: Ruqayyah Moynihan and Jessica Lin October 27, 2018 Will your job be done by a robot 10 years from now? If so, what will you end up doing? Over and over, experts have assured us that robots are not going to take over the world in the foreseeable future, but for some industries, the […]
Don’t believe the World Bank – robots will steal our wages
By: Larry Elliott October 14,2018 The World Bank has a reassuring message for those fearful of being made obsolete by automation. The robot age is nothing to be worried about. Just like all previous waves of technological advance, the fourth industrial revolution will create rather than destroy jobs, so fears of mass unemployment are largely […]