A recent “new employee” at a large domestic logistics center was not a human but a “robot.” When workers place items into baskets attached to the robot, the new robot efficiently transports them along ...

In the same week that Amazon announces it is firing 14,000 workers, The New York Times runs an article with the headline, "Amazon Plans to Replace More Than Half a Million Jobs with Robots." You see ...

For the Human-Robot Interaction research community, the authors call for deeper engagement with labor sociology, urban studies, and policy analysis . Evaluating robots solely through metrics of task ...

Clanker, rust bucket, tinskin — slang words used to put down robots are on the rise. As AI and robots threaten to replace human work and maybe even humans, the recent popularity of anti-robot lingo ...