Artificial intelligence (AI) Robots is arguably the foremost exciting field in artificial intelligence. It’s definitely the foremost controversial: everyone agrees that a mechanism will add a production line, however there […]
A robot shop assistant was hired and fired by a Scottish supermarket after just a week because he couldn’t understand customers.
‘Shopbot’ Fabio was being trialled at Margiotta’s flagship Edinburgh store in an experience run by Heriot-Watt University’s Interaction Lab for the BBC’s Six Robots & US .
As artificial intelligence and robotics continue to pick up steam, thousands of jobs we could once take for granted are at risk of being automated, threatening to leave a bevy of diligent workers on the dole. But there might be a tool you can consult to take the necessary measures before your time has come.
Created by designer-developer duo Dimitar Raykov and Mubashar Iqbal, ‘Will robots take my job?’ is an amusing web-based tool that predicts how susceptible your occupation is to the ever-growing current of automation and computerisation.
“Robots for economic growth, improved quality of life and empowerment of people”: this is the statement that opens the 2016 report titled: “A Roadmap for US Robotics – From Internet to Robotics”
