Tag: Automation
Amazon still seems hell bent on turning workers into robots –...
David Spencer, University of Leeds
The strikes by hundreds of Amazon workers at the company’s Coventry warehouse in the...
Factories of the future: we’re spending heavily to give workers skills...
John Preston, University of Essex
“This government is obsessed with skilling up our population,” said Boris Johnson in his...
Artisan robots with AI smarts will juggle tasks, choose tools, mix...
Glenn S. Daehn, The Ohio State University
Failure of a machine in a factory can shut it down. Lost...
How 10 billion people could live well by 2050 – using...
Joel Millward-Hopkins, University of Leeds
Forced contraception in exchange for aid is the solution.
The problem is that there are too many of us.
COVID-19 is nature’s...
The future of work will still include plenty of jobs
Wayne Simpson, University of Manitoba
There is now widespread anxiety over the future of work, often accompanied by calls for a basic income to protect...
Why is the Pentagon interested in UFOs?
Iain Boyd, University of Michigan
U.S. Navy pilots and sailors won’t be considered crazy for reporting unidentified flying objects, under new rules meant to encourage...
Artificial intelligence may take your job, so political leaders need to...
Alan Montague, RMIT University; Alan Nankervis, RMIT University; John Burgess, RMIT University; Nuttawuth Muenjohn, RMIT University; Ros Cameron, Australian Institute of Business, and Timothy...
Too many airplane systems rely on too few sensors
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
The apparent connection between fatal airplane crashes in Indonesia and Ethiopia centers around the failure of a single sensor. I...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
