The past is a foreign country… A robotic barrista. No pods, “real”, personalised coffee. 120 Coffees in 60 Minutes. The robot fulfills 300 to 400 orders a day. The manufacturer, Cafe…
Susskind – 3 Myths about the future of work
Daniel Susskind – 3 Myths about the future of work ( and why they’re not true!) Links https://www.danielsusskind.com Robots & Jobs – The Evidence Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of…
Two types of People…
Who’s right? Elon Musk makes it very clear which type he is! The live-stream of the launch is here. In presentations I have made in the last eighteen months, I…
Decoupling Productivity
Another interesting piece from the Kurzgesagt team. They are perhaps more correct than they know [or fear] Decoupling productivity from human labour. This is the key difference when it comes…
A New Renaissance? For whom?
Welcome to the slowest day of the rest of your life… A capital-intensive new renaissance ? Be careful what you wish for… Outstanding conversation led by Paul Colgan @Colgo with…
In the land of the one-armed Robot…
Perth-based Fastbrick Robotics Ltd [ ASX: FBR] today announced their highly innovative Hadrian X robot bricklayer is on target for a world-first commercial release to market this year. The Perth company…
Robots & Jobs – The Evidence
Daron Acemoglu and Pascual Restrepo from The National Bureau of Economic Research at MIT in the US have just released an outstanding [in my view] working paper titled: ROBOTS AND…
Handle
Continuing the automation theme. The Boston Dynamics team introduces Handle. Doing things no robot has done before. Get used to that phrase… Handle is a research robot that stands 6.5…
Driving – Here today… ?
Truckers think automation won’t take their jobs for 40 years. Silicon Valley strongly disagrees. Who’s right? Automation and the ominously euphemistic “process removal” are challenging our understanding of what modern…