When Bill Gates recently suggested robots should pay income tax like any other employee, I didn’t…
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Former White House economic advisor Jason Furman discusses how automation will impact jobs
When it arrived in December, the White House’s report, “Artificial Intelligence, Automation, and the Economy” felt…
Robot tutor Musio makes its retail debut in Japan
A cute, robotic language tutor called Musio, has made it from crowdfunding campaign to full-fledged product…
About this stabbing machine
Thank you for joining me, ladies, gentlemen. Researchers have created a “stabbing machine,” with which they…
Seriously, this skull-drilling robot is good news for humanity
When someone invents a robot specifically made to drill into the skulls of unconscious, immobile humans,…
Crunch Report | Jay Z Has Arrived
More news about Jay Z’s new venture (Arrive), robots that fix their mistakes and Y Combinator…
MIT programs a robot to self-correct when a human detects a mistake
In a new video from MIT’s CSAIL department, a smirking industrial robot from Rethink picks up spray paint…
Teaching robots to adjust their grip the way humans do
Pick up that can. Now say you had to put it down on its side rather…