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JEFF HIMMELMAN | NYTimes.com | Magazine
Robot Chats ... from Space
Footage released on Thursday shows the first humanoid robot in space making small talk with the commander of the International Space Centre ...
Crunch the Numbers
Japan's robot astronaut Kirobo has performed its first mission at the International Space Station
Kirobo is holding a series of conversations with a Japanese astronaut and keeping him company.
The Telegraph | Science | Space
The Telegraph | YouTube
EVERYONE AGREES THAT SOME JOBS FOR HUMANS WILL BE LOST TO ROBOTS, AND SOME JOBS FOR HUMANS WILL BE MADE BECAUSE OF OUR 'BOT OVERLORDS. BUT THERE'S A GROWING DEBATE ABOUT THE MATH.
CAMILLE SWEENEY AND JOSH GOSFIELD | Fast Company
Fast Company
LET'S CRUNCH THE NUMBERS WITH CYBORG HANDS!
The Post Singularity Economy
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Tia Ghose | LiveScience
It's been the fodder for countless dystopian movies: a singularity in which artificial intelligence rivals human smarts.
From mass extinction to life extension, here are seven potential implications of super-smart robots.
Reason 5: Economy On Fire: Whereas the economy doubled every thousand years after the agricultural revolution, and every 15 years after the industrial revolution, a post-singularity economy could double every month... that blistering pace of economic growth could be so fast that humans couldn't ...
Create Jobs or Destroy Jobs?
A industry sponsored report - under the banner Robots Create Jobs - cited the following reasons why they opposed the CBS 60 Minutes piece and why robotics really does create jobs ...
Quick Draw Robots
There are at least 350,000 people directly employed by and in the industrial robotics industry. More than half of those 350,000 jobs are offshore.
Frank Tobe | The Robot Report
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Christopher Dickey | TheDailyBeast
The world may discover some hard truths this week at the amazing DARPA Robotics Challenge, a competition for the world’s next-generation machines.
Valkyrie and her fellow competitors—Chimp, RoboSimian, Hubo, Schaft and Thor—are at the center of a debate beset by distortions and spin on every side.
Intelligent Machines sub for Lawyers
"In the old world, the (legal profession's )business model was awesome," said Wang. "Now you can look it up just as easily as I can.”
Ted Wang, who has honed legal strategies for tech companies like Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., is turning to a novel tool in his bid to demystify the legalities of starting a company.
Lauren Hepler | Silicon Valley Business Journal
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