Robots and AI could transform our lives, so we must decide how we want to use them.
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Robots are already carrying out tasks in clinics, classrooms and warehouses. Designing robots that are more receptive to human needs could help make them more useful in many contexts.
The incentives to bring manufacturing back to the US will affect productivity, but in ways that might be surprising.
Robots are taking jobs, but they’re also saving lives … should we fear them and their capabilities?
Amazon’s planned upcoming ‘Just Walk Out’ technology will let customers take items off a store’s shelf, bag them, and walk straight out.
What’s more, higher education holds the key to ensuring humans are equipped with the necessary skills to work alongside AI.
As machine automation and artificial intelligence surge, there’s paranoia our jobs will be overrun by robots. But even if this happens, work won’t disappear, because humans need it.
Prominent thinkers exaggerating the potential or danger of artificial intelligence are pushing us towards a new AI winter.
How willing are people to accept medical care from a robot or an automated system? It depends on the procedure – and the price.
While some alarmists predict AI will decimate the workforce, the truth is concerted action by leaders in labor, business, government and education can ensure workers aren’t replaced by robots.
Years of research into how humans work best together yield lessons useful for designing robots to interact with people.
Most Australian workers are fairly relaxed about their own job security, but they do worry about the risks of poor management and outsourcing to cheaper labour.
Why we’re developing a soft robot inspired by an elephant’s trunk.
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Senior Lecturer, School of Politics and International Relations, Australian National University
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Professor of Economics and Public Policy, ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, Australian National University
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Director, POLIS: The ANU Centre for Social Policy Research, Australian National University
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Professor of Human Systems Engineering, Arizona State University
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University of Salford
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Sessional Instructor, Cultural Studies and Critical Theory, McMaster University
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Associate Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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Professor in Robotics, Queensland University of Technology
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Professor, Macquarie University
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Distinguished Visiting Professor in Economics, University of Johannesburg, University of Johannesburg
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Ph.D. Candidate in Human Factors, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
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Professor of the Practice in Innovation, Manufacturing and Industrial Competitiveness, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
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Professor of Psychology, The National Robotarium, Heriot-Watt University