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A new study measures the actual impact of robots on jobs. It’s significant.
5 min read · 77 saves · Jul 29th · Industrial robots do reduce jobs and wages — especially for workers in the automotive industry and certain parts of the country.
The Robot Revolution Was Televised: Our All-Time Favorite Boston Dynamics Robot Videos
4 min read · 58 saves · Jul 19th · Jason Dorrier · With tens of millions of views, Boston Dynamics is the undisputed heavyweight champion of robot videos. Here are some of our all-time favorites.
Using robots to probe how people react to simple behaviours
1 min read · 48 saves · Jul 20th · Josie Glausiusz · Neuroscientist Agnieszka Wykowska investigates how the human brain reacts to embodied artificial intelligence.
Machine learning helps robot swarms coordinate
2 min read · 48 saves · Jul 20th · Engineers at Caltech have designed a new data-driven method to control the movement of multiple robots through cluttered, unmapped spaces, so they do not…
Robot usage is soaring during pandemic
1 min read · 36 saves · Jul 24th · Conditions are ideal for a massive adoption boost to robotic and software automation technologies.
Where Is Robotics Heading? Perspectives From iRobot (Colin Angle), Stanley Black & Decker, And Robots In Service…
4 min read · 28 saves · Jul 26th · With robots increasingly being used in both professional and personal settings, where are we in the current state of robotics and where is the…
I’ve worked in AI for 2 decades. This flaw in Google’s system shocked me
4 min read · 21 saves · Jul 24th · Arijit Sengupta · The Aible founder’s unsettling experience with Google’s advertising AI reveals the importance of ensuring there is human oversight of automated systems.
Japanese construction giant to build massive dam almost entirely with robots
1 min read · 19 saves · Jul 24th · Mai Tao · The Obayashi Corporation, one of the five largest construction companies in Japan, is building a giant dam with robots, according to a report on…
CMU and Facebook AI Research use machine learning to teach robots to navigate by recognizing objects
18 saves · Jul 20th · Carnegie Mellon today showed off new research into the world of robotic navigation. With help from the team at Facebook AI Research (FAIR), the…
Op-Ed: The real reason we're afraid of robots
3 min read · Paywall possible · 17 saves · Jul 26th · Humanity’s worries about being outsmarted and overthrown by omnipotent man-made automatons is much older than computer technology.