Over the course of the next decade, up to 800 million jobs globally could disappear due to advances in artificial intelligence and robotics, according to research from the McKinsey Global Institute, a top consulting firm. An estimated one-third of the 2030 workforce in the U.S. may need to learn new skills and find work in new occupations.
The changes won’t hit the country equally. It will vary for groups of workers -- manufacturing industries have been the most adversely affected by automation over the past decade -- and could threaten some metropolitan areas more than others.
Not to change the topic here:
Toyota unveils upgraded version of its humanoid robot
TOKYO (AP) — Toyota Motor Corp. has unveiled an upgraded version of its human-shaped T-HR3 robot. The robot, which is controlled remotely by a person wearing a headset and wiring on his or her arms and hands, now has faster and smoother finger movements because the controlling device is lighter and easier to use.
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Such a robot could, in the future, be used to perform surgery in a distant place where a doctor cannot travel. It also might allow people to feel like they're participating in events they can't actually attend.
4 Robot Vacuum Tips That Will Help You Keep a Tidy Home | WIRED
It's tempting, but you can't open the box, start your new robot vacuum, walk away for three hours, and expect to come home to a clean house. It takes time for both you and the robovac to learn what the potential booby traps in your house will be for the roving machine. I always stay home for the first run (or three) to make sure the robot can complete a cleaning run.
Robot vacuums use a number of different sensors to navigate around your home. Bumper sensors tell them when it's run into something and to head off in a different direction. Infrared cliff sensors on the edges alert robovacs to when they about to fall off a step.
Scaled Robotics keeps an autonomous eye on busy construction sites – TechCrunch
Buildings under construction are a maze of half-completed structures, gantries, stacked materials, and busy workers — tracking what’s going on can be a nightmare. Scaled Robotics has designed a robot that can navigate this chaos and produce 3D progress maps in minutes, precise enough to detect that a beam is just a centimeter or two off.
Bottlenecks in construction aren’t limited to manpower and materials. Understanding exactly what’s been done and what needs doing is a critical part of completing a project in good time, but it’s the kind of painstaking work that requires special training and equipment. Or, as Scaled Robotics showed today at TC Disrupt Berlin 2019, specially trained equipment.
In case you are keeping track:
Robot Fails: These 8 Robots Aren't Going to Destroy Humanity Just Yet
Thankfully, we still have time to make a change by putting laws in place that will prevent governments from developing these technologies unchecked.
Why, you might ask? Robots are a long way from being the Skynet monstrosities we see in the movies. Here are a few robot fails to prove our point.
Boston Dynamics creates some pretty incredible robots . Their Atlas and Spot robots can perform athletic maneuvers and climb tricky terrain. That doesn't mean they're impervious to a gaffe or two.
Join us at CES 2020 to Discuss How Robots Will Save the World - Robotics Business Review
The track, which will be held in Room N253 of the North Hall at the Las Vegas Convention Center, will begin at 9 a.m. with an opening session titled "A Radically Hopeful Vision of the Future," by Ken Goldberg, the William S. Floyd Jr. Distinguished Chair in Engineering at UC Berkeley, and a professor of industrial engineering and operations research.
With the headlines about robots and AI stealing jobs, replacing drivers, doctors, and lawyers, many believe that the "singularity" is coming soon, with AI and robots posing an existential threat to humans. In his session, Goldberg will propose an alternative to the singularity that is more inclusive – Multiplicity, in which diverse groups of humans work together with diverse groups of machines to innovate and solve problems.
New, Emotionally Intelligent Robot CIMON 2 Heads to Space Station | Space
The astronaut assistant known as CIMON 2 just launched for the orbiting lab aboard SpaceX's robotic Dragon cargo capsule , which lifted off today (Dec. 5) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
CIMON 2 is following in the footsteps of the original CIMON (Crew Interactive Mobile Companion), which reached the ISS in the summer of 2018, also aboard a Dragon. Both robots were developed by the European aerospace company Airbus on behalf of the German space agency, DLR, and employ IBM's Watson system as their AI.
NASA will launch a ‘robot hotel’ to the Space Station on its next SpaceX resupply
Depending on how eager you are to anthropomorphize robots, the “hotel” designation might not be quite as appropriate as “garage” — this unit is essentially a protected parking space for robots when not in use, helping to protect them from potential dangers presented by being in space, including exposure to radiation, and the potential to get hit by micrometeors and other debris.
The first guests at the hotel will be two robots called Robotic External Leak Locators (RELL — because acronyms). They do what it says on the tin, finding leaks in the ISS exterior hull from the outside, which is a key job. And in the past, they’ve been stored inside the ISS when not in use, but space is at a premium in the station itself, so any time you can save some it’s good news for astronauts and for ongoing research and other equipment.
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