October 12, 2022
Via: Natalie DunnThe pandemic has accelerated the process of digitization. Recent studies show that one in five companies is looking to automate jobs and replace employees with robots. The good news, however, is that for all the jobs that are being eliminated, […]
April 23, 2018
Via: ZDNetIn early 2017, President Obama’s top economic and science advisors wrote a report entitled, “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy.” The report is a cleared-eyed collation of current data and predictions pertaining to the accelerating pace of adoption of automation […]
Innovations, Predictions, Trends
December 13, 2017
Via: ZDNetOne kind of robot has endured for the last half-century: the hulking one-armed Goliaths that dominate industrial assembly lines. These industrial robots have been task-specific — built to spot weld, say, or add threads to the end of a pipe. […]
March 18, 2016
Via: TechSpotWe’ve watched Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot grow up before our very eyes over the past few years. But now, like a deadbeat dad, its parent company is saying goodbye. Sources familiar with the matter tell Bloomberg that executives at Google […]
July 6, 2015
Via: Erik SofgeIt’s been close to a month since the DARPA Robotics Challenge (DRC) wrapped up. That’s time enough to face facts. The biggest and most well-funded international robotics competition in years was a failure. That doesn’t feel good to write. The […]
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