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Teachers at The Nexus Academy of Columbus in Ohio take control of a 4ft -tall (1.2 metre) robot from as far away as Arizona to give lessons. The robot has a screen that shows their face and a camera. 
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Kitchener-based Clearpath Robotics has engineered a fleet of heavy-duty yellow and black robots that fit comfortably between the look of a Tonka truck and the character in Pixar’s “Wall-E.”
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Experts at CES say we are ‘decades if not centuries’ away from robots taking over the world, with humans still our most lethal danger
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Intelligent, predictive, and adaptive, a network of robotic minds will soon start changing every aspect of how we live.
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Experts disagree about the future. That might seem unextraordinary, but it’s the conclusion of a new survey on robots from Pew, and it’s more significant than it sounds. For all the talk of “robots stealing jobs,” 2,551 experts surveyed were deeply divided over the following question:
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In the next industrial revolution, will we manufacture goods, or will they construct themselves? architect and computer scientist Skylar Tibbits talks about 4-D printing, programmable matter, and the future of things.
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Summary: During the past 2 years the robot revolution has come into view, and all but Right-wingers living in fantasy-land have begun to realize it might (like the previous ones) produce large-scal...
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The basic contract of working hard and getting paid will keep breaking downand AI will be to blame.
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If you've ever scoffed at the notion of robots one day taking your job, you probably shouldn't watch this very scary video.
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Kyle Nel, who runs the Innovation Labs division of the Lowe’s hardware chain, began brainstorming several months ago about how the company might make use of an in-store robot. He got an introduction to Marco Mascorro, the C.E.O. of a robotics startup called Fellow Robots, and together Lowe’s and Fellow Robots designed, developed, and built OSHbot, a machine that can talk and move, and that evokes a taller, squarer version of Wall-E’s love interest, EVE. Starting next month, Lowe’s plans to release several OSHbots into one of its Orchard Supply Hardware stores (the “OSH” in OSHbot) in San Jose, California. The robots’ job will be to greet customers, help them find what they need, and guide them around the store.
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After you heard President Obama’s call for a hike in the minimum wage, you probably wondered the same thing I did: Was Obama sent from the future by Skynet to prepare humanity for its ultimate dominion by robots?
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$Most economists will tell you that workers displaced by technological progress and globalization should be able to find comparable employment elsewhere — or at least that the income losses of those who lose their jobs are more than offset by the broader gains to consumers as a whole.
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