Apple co-founder and Silicon Valley tech icon Steve Wozniak isn’t worried that robots will leave us all unemployed, not in the foreseeable future, anyway. Yes, technology has made our lives more convenient than ever before, Wozniak says, speaking at the eMERGE conference in Miami, Fla., Monday. “We have built all this technology to take care […]
Melted Fuel Still Leaking Out of Fukushima Reactor — Likely Escaping from Opening at Bottom of Containment Vessel–Giving Up On Robots…
[TEPCO] failed to locate melted nuclear fuel inside the No. 1 reactor at the disaster-stricken Fukushima No. 1 Nuclear Power Plant… [T]he latest survey on the No. 1 reactor also failed to obtain data necessary to extract melted fuel, such as where the fuel is located. Therefore, the utility is compelled to consider fetching melted […]
Robots Could Replace One Million Jobs over Next 15 Years…
Millions of jobs in the UK are in jeopardy because of robots taking over various sectors of the labor market. According to the latest report on the impact of automation on the UK’s labor force, up to 10 million jobs are at risk of being replaced by machines within 15 years. Routine and/or manual jobs, […]
Robots Poised to Take over Wide Range of Military Jobs…
The wave of automation that swept away tens of thousands of American manufacturing and office jobs during the past two decades is now washing over the armed forces, putting both rear-echelon and front-line positions in jeopardy. “Just as in the civilian economy, automation will likely have a big impact on military organizations in logistics and […]
Robots Are Being Programmed to Fly Drones That Can Kill People?…What Could Possibly Go Wrong?!?…
Could this small robot piloting a drone be the next stage in artificial intelligence? An amusing video shows an Aldebaran Robotics Nao V5 asking its ‘papa’ if it can play with the drone. The man agrees and the robot sets to its task but all does not go to plan as it proceeds to fly […]
Inside Amazon’s Robot-Run Supermarket. Employs Just 3 Human Beings…
If you’re a robot stealing somebody’s job, it’s best to stay hidden. That’s what Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos appears to be thinking, as his Seattle-based web giant has contemplated a two-story, automated grocery store in which a staff of robots on the floor upstairs grabs and bags items for shoppers below…
UK’s Online Supermarket, Ocado, Is Developing Robot Hands that Won’t Bruise Banana’s…
The UK’s online supermarket, Ocado Ltd, has plans to test a new robotic arm for picking and packing groceries in some of its warehouses the company announced today. A grasping robot arm dexterous enough not to bruise bananas, crack eggs or fumble when it picks up a sack of citrus could allow e-groceries like Ocado […]
IRS Data: American Dream Evaporates, Amid Mass Immigration, Automation…
The probability of American children earning as much as their parents has plunged from 92 percent down to 50 percent during the last seven decades, according to a new study of tax data and the shrinking American Dream of upward mobility…
Battle of the Machines: Robots Compete in Football Final (VIDEO)…
Make Way for Our Future Overlords: Robots to Take 6 Percent of Jobs by 2021…
Robots are poised to replace interns as the unrewarded and unpaid worker ants of industry. A study by Forrester Research has projected that by 2021, artificial intelligence will be sophisticated enough to push…