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Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
The overall goal of the DRC is to help drive innovation towards robots that are able to take over from humans directly, without needing any special accommodations. In that context, a human form makes sense because we're humans, and these robots will be doing the jobs that we don't want to be doing because they're too dangerous.
Decoherence!
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What's Wrong With Quantum Computing JAMIE CONDLIFFE | Gizmodo-Australia
It’s vast ability to assume many states at once — in theory — means that quantum computers can provide untold power, many times faster than any classical computer. In practice, it’s rather more difficult.
Yes, Robots Tell Lies!
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Zeke Miller and Denver Nicks | Time Newsfeed
Our encounter with an all-too-convincing robot.
When asked point blank if she was a real person, or a computer-operated robot voice, she replied enthusiastically that she was real, with a charming laugh. But then she failed several other ...
Machine Learning
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Relaxnews | ctvnews.ca | AFP
Facebook unveiled plans Monday on a partnership with New York University for a new center for artificial intelligence, aimed at harnessing the huge social network's massive trove of data.
The lab will work on "machine learning," -- a branch of artificial intelligence that involves computers "learning" to extract knowledge from giant data sets.
The Future
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?"
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Labor Unions
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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!
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Biomorphic Robots
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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.
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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.
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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
Makerspaces
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by JULIET B. SCHOR | NYTimes
Community fabrication spaces like Artisan’s Asylum are becoming popular across the United States and Europe. For many, they represent an appealing vision of the future of work.
Productivity
Intelligent Machines
by Robotics Tomorrow - Contributed by Seegred
The fear of robots is steeped in science fiction and has little to do with the truth. The truth about robots, robotics, and functional uses is the purpose of this analysis.
If computers become as smart as humans, will they do our jobs better than we can?
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by Cameron Scott | Singularity Hub
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by Timothy B. Lee | The Washington Post
Should middle-class workers be worried about machines becoming so smart that they take everyone's jobs? The argument for this proposition dramatically overestimates the importance of raw intelligence in the labor market.
Humanoids
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by John Markoff | NYTimes
On a recent morning Natanel Dukan walked into the Paris offices of the French robot maker Aldebaran and noticed one of the company’s humanoid NAO robots sitting on a chair. Mr. Dukan, an electrical engineer, could not resist. Bending over, he kissed the robot on the cheek.
China
By Marcus Chan | Bloomberg.com
While "disruption" is an overused word in the tech world, it's hard not to wonder how 3-D printing might affect global manufacturing and the country in the middle of it all: China.
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