A recent “new employee” at a large domestic logistics center was not a human but a “robot.” When workers place items into baskets attached to the robot, the new robot efficiently transports them along ...
In the same week that Amazon announces it is firing 14,000 workers, The New York Times runs an article with the headline, "Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots." You see ...
Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...
Robots don't pay into Social Security. Maybe we should tax them instead. Robots are deeply embedded in corporate America. The basic construct of Social Security is this: Workers and their employers ...