Tag: Robots
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...
An expert on search and rescue robots explains the technologies used...
Robin R. Murphy, Texas A&M University
Texas A&M’s Robin Murphy has deployed robots at 29 disasters, including three building...
Explorer Robert Ballard’s memoir finds shipwrecks and strange life forms in...
Suzanne OConnell, Wesleyan University
Who doesn’t love a good story, especially one about amazing discoveries in Earth’s farthest reaches?...
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...
With the help of trained dolphins, our team of researchers is...
Jason Bruck, Oklahoma State University
Human actions have taken a steep toll on whales and dolphins. Some studies estimate that small whale abundance, which includes...
A smart second skin gets all the power it needs from...
Wei Gao, California Institute of Technology
The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.
The big idea
Skin is the largest organ of the...
What Amazon’s decision to retrain a third of its employees means...
Scott F. Latham, University of Massachusetts Lowell
Amazon’s announcement that it will invest US$700 million to retrain 100,000 employees – a third of its U.S....
How to prevent the ‘robot apocalypse’ from ending labor as we...
Thomas Kochan, MIT Sloan School of Management and Elisabeth Reynolds, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
It seems not a day goes by without the appearance of...
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A life of long weekends is alluring, but the shorter working...
Anthony Veal, University of Technology Sydney
When Microsoft gave its 2,300 employees in Japan five Fridays off in a row, it found productivity jumped 40%.
When...
