Robot Dog. Stolen Car Tracker. Security Cone. New York Police Go High-Tech April 14, 2023 By Karen Matthews New York City officials unveiled three new high-tech policing devices Tuesday, including a robotic dog that critics called creepy when...
COVID-Sniffing Robots Promise Fast Testing Alternative October 2, 2020 By Kristen V. Brown A biotechnology startup called Koniku is trying to develop robots that could sniff out Covid-19 infections faster than conventional testing....
Robots Haven’t Eliminated Many Jobs – So Far: World Bank January 3, 2019 By Natalia Drozdiak The rise of automation has so far had a negligible impact on jobs at a global scale, the World Bank...
Will Robots Take Your Job? It Depends on Where You Live: OECD September 20, 2018 By William Horobin Will robots take your job? The answer depends on where you live. The threat varies “strikingly” between countries and regions,...
Robots Portend Grim Future for Working Class: Viewpoint July 6, 2018 By Noah Smith, Bloomberg Opinion Marc Andreessen, venture capitalist and one of the pioneers of the world wide web, once declared: “The spread of computers...
Robots, Drones Changing How Oil Firms Handle Dangerous Offshore Work May 13, 2018 By Liz Hampton At BP’s massive Thunder Horse oil platform in the U.S. Gulf of Mexico, a dog-sized robot called Maggie uses magnetic...
Popular Robots Appear Dangerously Easy to Hack, Researchers Say August 22, 2017 By Jeremy Kahn Some of the most popular industrial and consumer robots are dangerously easy to hack and could be turned into bugging...