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Employment forecast looks great! Provided you're a robot.
John Moe Sep 16, 2012
Economist Erik Brynjolfsson, and research scientist Andrew P. McAffee intended to write a book about how innovation and technology would spur job...
The robots are coming! The robots are coming!
Farhad Manjoo Mar 9, 2012
A tight job market means fierce competition to find work. What could make things worse for job seekers? Robots.
LOOK AT THIS ENORMOUS ROBOT DOG
John Moe Sep 30, 2011
Look at that! It's a robot! But it's so much more! It's an ENORMOUS ROBOT DOG! They call it the Alpha Dog and it was developed for use by the mil...
Robot tractors. Robot tractors? Robot tractors!
John Moe Sep 20, 2011
What happens when a tractor maker and a robot designer combine forces? Timing is everything on the farm. If you want to get your crops in at the...
Robot jock attempts a triathlon
John Moe Sep 15, 2011
Tomotaka Takahashi's tiny, green and white robot has already scaled the Grand Canyon and raced for 24 hours at Le Mans. So why not modify the...
VIDEO: Two Chatbots talk about God, unicorns, and truth
John Moe Aug 30, 2011
Researchers at Cornell have been working on a chatbot called Cleverbot. A chatbot is a piece of software or a robot or something designed to hold...
Robots can learn, and there's no way this will ever go wrong.
Adriene Hill Aug 3, 2011
In a move that has absolutely no downsides, scientists in Japan have built a robot that can think, learn and do things it hasn't been programmed to...
The robots are coming! Or, how to spoil a pefectly nice dance party.
Adriene Hill Aug 1, 2011
Foxconn, the Taiwanese company that assembles Apple's iPhones and iPads, is reportedly planning to "hire" 1 million robots to take on the boring,...
Greatest hits of the EOL Robot Band
John Moe Jul 19, 2011
On our Wednesday show, we hear the latest hottest greatest single from a band of robots....
Robots AND pirates together in one blog item
John Moe Jul 14, 2011
It's tough to do your job if it entails sailing to the Indian Ocean for research. That's what climate scientists found out while trying to conduct...
