This article is part of a series of articles based on common questions in robotics. The previous article dealt with the question: What is a robot? Robots are machines designed to perform tasks – ...

Recently, I was at a party in San Francisco when a man approached me and introduced himself as the founder of a small artificial intelligence (AI) start-up. As soon as the founder figured out that I ...

At least one Nobel Prize-winning economist has predicted that the relationship between human beings and the world of work will resemble that between horses and agriculture. Farming once almost ...

Users create an invisible bubble around the robot through a virtual software system. When something enters that bubble, the ...

Patients can expect robots to take over more work from HSE staff in future – but it is unclear how this will affect jobs. A new blueprint imagines a greater role for a robotic workforce and more ...