Study assesses psychological impact of job losses through technology Generally speaking, most people find the idea of workers being replaced by robots or software worse than if the jobs are... Read more
Technology can help workers in many ways. Romero, Stahre, Wuest, et al., CC BY-ND Thorsten Wuest, West Virginia University; David Romero, Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Mo... Read more
A soft actuator using electrically controllable membranes could pave the way for machines that are no danger to humans In interacting with humans, robots must first and foremost be safe. If... Read more
Nowadays it is impossible to imagine industry without robots. Safety laser scanners mostly safeguard dangerous areas and protect people from collisions. But optical sensors have their limita... Read more
Madeline Gannon (A 2016), a Ph.D. candidate in Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Architecture, has put the power of interacting with robots into our hands — literally. Now program... Read more
A new survey finds young people increasingly depressed about their prospects for the future With new artificially intelligent machines appearing every day, young people are worried about whe... Read more
Manufacturing — that is, the business of making stuff — has changed significantly over the past half-century. Perhaps you’ve noticed. While America’s share of industry has constricted, with... Read more
From a robot’s perspective, humans are normally a nuisance: when robots and humans have to work together, it often leads to problems. Researchers on CogIMon, a new project starting at... Read more
There is no shortage of angst about the relentless advance of digital technology and what it means for the work force, if not humanity. Dire warnings have come from no less than Elon Musk, S... Read more
Now that machines can diagnose cancer, trade stocks, and write symphonies, they’re not just going to make humans more efficient as they have in the past—they are replacing them entirel... Read more
At this pace, the country’s robot population is going to outnumber people. If you are a human who works at the Kawada factory outside Tokyo, most of your coworkers are robots. On the a... Read more
In an out-of-the-way Google office, two life-size humanoid robots hang suspended in a corner. If Amazon can imagine delivering books by drones, is it too much to think that Google might be p... Read more
