published Jun 8th 2016, 7:39 pm, by Adam Minter (Bloomberg View) — The story first turned up in mid-May: Foxconn, Apple’s favorite manufacturer, was replacing 60,000 of its workers with robots. Everyone from the BBC to Apple fan sites soon reported the ground-shifting news. There was just one problem: It

©2015 Bloomberg View NPLH4I6JTSE8 (Bloomberg View) — Americans are worried about robots taking their jobs. Japanese people should be salivating at the prospect. Japan continues to power ahead in the field of robotics. Although Japanese companies have lost their dominance in fields such as consumer electronics and semiconductors, in robots

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has been ranting about Killer Robots and the possibility of Google building a robot army.  The CEO and product architect of Tesla Motors and the CEO/CTO of Space Exploration Technologies posted a comment on the futurology site Edge.org, warning that developments in AI could bring about robots that

By James Riordan At the 29th annual conference of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (http://www.aaai.org/home.html) researchers presented a paper indicating that they have discovered a new method to teach robots how to use tools – by watching videos on YouTube.  The researchers, from the University of Maryland