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The Future
Jobs
Robots | Intelligent Machines
ReconRobotics
JOSHUA BERLINGER | Business Insider
The real question America has to decide for itself, Bignall says, is what side will it end up on in the robot economy: "America is at a point where it has to decide, are we a user of robots or a designer or builder of robots? Are we going to have the robot building jobs or are we going to be a country that uses robots built by other countries?"
Labor Unions
Bloomberg News
Democracy in America | The Economist
One important factor in the decline of private-sector unions is the increasing automation of heavily-unionised manufacturing jobs. American manufacturing output has grown robustly while the portion of the workforce employed in manufacturing has plummeted. Thanks robots!
Biomorphic Robots
Photo: Warner Bros. Pictures
By Dan Amira | New York Magazine
European scientists at RoboEarth have created the first Internet for robots, called Rapyuta. But for those convinced that providing robots with a common brain will only hasten the arrival of the robot uprising against mankind, then Rapyuta is more like a dark harbinger of the apocalypse.
Labor and Capital
Jacek Depczye
The Economist
The sleeker, faster Watson is now being put to commercial use: its first application is suggesting treatments in cancer clinics. Many people fear that Watson exemplifies a trend toward the displacement of human workers by machines.
Healthcare
The Washington Post
BY JOANN WEINER | The Washington Post
The looming shortage of physicians, especially in the primary care area, coupled with the rising demand for medical services, poses a severe challenge for the American health-care system.
Innovative solution: allow robots to handle many of the routine, low-skilled medical tasks so that doctors’ time can be freed up for more complicated medical issues.
Robots Create Jobs
Meka Robotics - Google
Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
Google is funding a major new robotics group, and that includes acquiring a bunch of robotics startups. The seven companies are capable of creating technologies needed to build a mobile, dexterous robot.
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