One of the surprise stars at the 2020 CES consumer electronics show this week was a cute, tiny robot with an electronic teddy bear face that brings toilet paper rolls to bathroom users on command.
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Guess who’s getting used to working with robots in their everyday lives? The very same warehouse workers once predicted to be losing their jobs to mechanical replacements .
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Robotic surgery company TransEnterix has put a new chief executive officer in place as the company – its stock trading around 30 cents, one 10th its value a year ago, continues to mull its strategic options such as a possible sale.
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A recent study from North Carolina State University finds that people are likely to blame robots for workplace accidents, but only if they believe the robots are autonomous.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and Elon University have developed a technique that allows them to remotely control the movement of soft robots, lock them into position for as long as needed and later reconfigure the robots into new shapes.
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“Robot umpires” have arrived. The independent Atlantic League became the first American professional baseball league to let a computer call balls and strikes Wednesday night at its All-Star Game. Plate umpire Brian deBrauwere wore an earpiece connected to an iPhone in his pocket and relayed the call upon receiving it from a TrackMan computer system that uses Doppler radar.
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JPMorgan Chase is launching a new robo-adviser as it makes another play for Millennial online investors.
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The new report about the vulnerability of manufacturing jobs being lost due to increased use of robots from Oxford Economics cites North Carolina as being among the most likely to lose jobs. Here are the factors used in creating a “vulnerability index.”
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One potential downside to the robot revolution: Automation could increase income inequality. So says a new report about the growing use of robots worldwide.
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