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Moxie is a technically impressive childhood robot from iRobot's former CTO – TechCrunch
To this day, the Roomba remains the one successful mainstream home robotic. It was a feat iRobot achieved after a decade or so of throwing concepts against the wall, ultimately achieving success through a combination of outward-facing simplicity and under-the-hood sophistication.
That other robots haven't achieved those heights isn't for lack of trying. The field has been littered with promising, high-profile failures. Notable recent additions to the dust bin of social home robotics history include Anki and Jibo. Both projects had interest and funding, but were ultimately unable to sustain.
How many jobs do robots really replace? | MIT News
MIT professor Daron Acemoglu is co-author of a new study showing that each robot added to the workforce has the effect of replacing 3.3 jobs across the U.S.
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This is part 1 of a three-part series examining the effects of robots and automation on employment, based on new research from economist and Institute Professor Daron Acemoglu.
In many parts of the U.S., robots have been replacing workers over the last few decades. But to what extent, really? Some technologists have forecast that automation will lead to a future without work, while other observers have been more skeptical about such scenarios.
Swedish municipality deploys robots for safer recruitment - Smart Cities World
The Upplands-Bro municipality outside of Stockholm is using artificial intelligence recruitment robots to reduce the risk of contamination at the interview stage during the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Upplands-Bro municipality in Sweden is using artificial intelligence robots to interview potential new recruits in a safe environment during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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The municipality, located just outside Stockholm, is facing new recruitment challenges because of the pandemic, especially in its substitute pool for care and welfare positions.
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SA-Based Company Deploys Robots to Neutralize COVID-19
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio-based company is deploying disinfecting robots to help keep surfaces clean.
UV technology created by scientists from John Hopkins University is being put into the machines that are manufactured by Xenex Disinfection Services. The robots work by beaming out a UV light that can disinfect an entire room in less than five minutes.
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"What we're seeing in the market in general now is a lot of pull from places like hotels, from airports, airlines, schools, government office buildings, private office buildings, doctors' offices," said Miller. "All of these people know now that requiring disinfection, getting these rooms disinfected, is incredibly important in order to get back to work. We want to see America get back to work again."
Which Westworld Characters are Robots, and Which are Human?
"Are you real?" is a refrain that has haunted the first two seasons of Westworld , a show that's had an awful lot of fun playing with our expectations, creating twisty narratives that reveal massive time jumps and, more importantly, characters who may or may not be as human as they appear. And season three appears likely to continue that trend, for this future society is on the brink of war between synthetic beings and regular humans, even though many humans don't know the war is coming.
How Many Jobs Do Robots Really Take? | Technology Networks
In many parts of the U.S., robots have been replacing workers over the last few decades. But to what extent, really? Some technologists have forecast that automation will lead to a future without work, while other observers have been more skeptical about such scenarios.
Now a study co-authored by an MIT professor puts firm numbers on the trend, finding a very real impact -- although one that falls well short of a robot takeover. The study also finds that in the U.S.
Robots to reshape the post-pandemic economy | Sifted
Starship, the Estonian robot delivery company, has never been busier. Since the UK brought in social distancing measures that limited people's ability to go shopping, the number of deliveries made by its fleet of autonomous robots has rocketed.
“Our robots have gone from a convenience to a necessity for a lot of people, and that is a big mental shift.”
"We are expanding into new neighbourhoods every week. Prior to the Covid-19 crisis, we'd expand into a new area monthly, but now we are constantly getting enquiries asking if we can deliver in new places," says Henry Harris-Burland, vice president of marketing at Starship.
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