Don't Fear the Robot Overlords—Embrace Them as Coworkers
Don't Fear the Robot Overlords—Embrace Them as Coworkers
Science, Spoken · SpokenLayer
December 27, 20186m 8s
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Show Notes
In a chilly warehouse just outside of Boston, the brute toils away. It’s 600 pounds of orange and black metal and whirring motors, a massive robotic arm that picks up car parts and places them on a table. Like its ancestors have done for decades, this industrial robot does the heavy lifting that no human worker could manage, and it does so with extreme speed and precision.
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