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When robots inevitably take over, cows will be the first things they take control of.
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Secretaries in many ways have Become Obsolete
In 1950, clerical jobs represented three-quarters of the federal workforce.
Today, these jobs are a mere 4 percent of the workforce of 2.1 million. That amounts to 87,153 people, less than a quarter of them secretaries.
And instead of supporting one executive in the C-suite, they work for five. Or for 50, as at the General Services Administration, where one assistant works for the entire executive staff.
Robots or Airport-security Screeners?
Automation has been transforming the federal workforce for two generations.
Lisa Rein | The Washington Post
Bill O'Leary | The Washington Post
Aviation and government authorities are starting to use machines in lieu of people to verify the identities of fliers by scanning their faces, irises or fingerprints.
Next to have their jobs automated: airport-security screeners?
JACK NICAS | The Wall Steet Journal
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Brian Merchant | Motherboard
No human hand touched this hamburger. It was made entirely by robots.
Reach out and touch someone
Let the Robots Take Over
Robot replacement is just a matter of time. This upheaval is being led by a second wave of automation, one that is centered on artificial cognition, cheap sensors, machine learning, and distributed smarts.
Imagine that 7 out of 10 working Americans got fired tomorrow. What would they all do?
KEVIN KELLY | Wired Magazine
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One of the most important people in the world of robotics isn't a conventional roboticist at all, but the science fiction author Isaac Asimov.
Dylan Love | Business Insider
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Meet Cody, a robotic nurse , and HERB, the Home Exploring Robot Butler, and Hector, who can remind patients to take their medicine, help locate eyeglasses and...
8 Jobs That Robots Stole
With America growing grayer by the year because of the aging Baby Boom generation, the health care industry needs more elderly care workers.
Noel Brinkerhoff | AllGov.com
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1. The people who mail stuff
2. The people who reheat pre-cooked food
3. The people who sell clothes
5 more ways....
Yes, Robots Tell Lies!
It's worth looking at the different ways automation began rendering new classes of jobs obsolete this year.
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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 ...
Smart / Tireless / Sexy
So …meet Lover.
For $6,995—$100 extra for pubic hair True Companion sells what it bills as “the world’s first sex robot.” Both Male (Rocky) and female (Roxxxy) versions. Breasts and penises come in customizable cup sizes and lengths, and there are seven personality settings, including Mature Martha (“more of a conversationalist,” Young Yoko (who’s barely 18), S&M Susan, and ...
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I Feel Like Someone's Watching Me
It can be quite startling at times when you turn to see a robot looking over your shoulder as you work.
Killer Robots Choose Targets All By Themselves
ARMAND VALDES | Mashable
I saw my boss' face featured prominently on the iPad's screen, whizzing around the office.
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Elizabeth Palermo | TechNews Daily
The report from the United Nations Human Rights Commission suggests that lethal autonomous robots need to be regulated.
Some of these machines — or "lethal autonomous robotics" (LARS), as they are called in the report — can allegedly choose and execute their own targets without human input.
Press My Invisible Button
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Christopher Mims | Quartz QZ.com
The internet of things will become more central to society than the internet as we know it today.
The internet of things replaces the internet-related actions we already know—click a button, navigate a webpage—with context.
An invisible button is simply an area in space that is “clicked” when a person or object moves into that physical space.
May I take your order!
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Alan Taylor | The Atlantic
32 photos of robotic technology at the beginning of the 21st century, including robotic insurgents, NASA's Juno spacecraft on its way to Jupiter, and a machine inside an archaeological dig in Mexico.
20/20 Vision
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Dave Greenfield | AutomationWorld
How vision technologies are expanding industrial pick-and-place robotic processes as well as the robot market as a whole.
“In the next decade, the number of vision systems used by autonomous robots should eclipse the number of systems used by fixed-base robot arms ...
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 ...
Humanoid Robots: It's a She
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.
Evan Ackerman | IEEE Spectrum
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