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Instead Of Just Eliminating Jobs, Automation Could Usher In A More Fair Economy

As robots become smarter, they are replacing more and more jobs. Does that have to mean people are out of work? Or can it mean that people work better and safer?READ»

How Robots And Social Entrepreneurs Can Work Side By Side To Fix The World

To break out of the mismanaged systems in which we find ourselves, we could turn to robots, whose cold logic would override our selfish needs. Or we could turn to social entrepreneurs, who work outside the system to find new solutions.READ»

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Robovie's Plastic Butler Bot Gets An Upgrade, Goes on Sale

Just the other day we were giggling with glee at Robovie's diminutive MR2 companion robot. Now the company's trumped itself: Robovie's R-Ver.3 is out. He's taller, can cope with rugged terrain, and you can pre-order him. For real.This ...READ»

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Are Robots Taking Your Jobs?

So you thought robots were only in the sci-fi movies, but think again. Today, the global economy suffers historic debt levels and massive population growth is expected to deplete resources within the next two decades.The ...READ»

iPhone You Can Drive My Car, If It's a New Mercedes Anyway

An iPhone app that lets you control your Mercedes Benz. An iPhone app that lets you control your Mercedes Benz. An iPhone app ... I mean, what more do you need to know? It's damn cool enough by itself isn't it? Mercedes Benz has ...READ»

Sony's Camera Dock Automates Taking Party Photos

This is one of those ideas that's been kind of inevitable. It will be kind of useful, but it's still dreadful all the same: Sony's launching a new digital camera dock/monopod that'll automatically snap all your party ...READ»

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Five Robots To Ease Your Domestic Chores

The science magazines of the 50s were fond of portraying the future as populated with 'droids designed to ease life in every way imaginable. Sadly, it is the future, and that's not quite the way things turned out. But at least there ...READ»

RG3 Mower Tends Golf Greens With Eco-Green Robotic Precision

Maintaining high-grade greens on a golf course is both a time-consuming and expensive task: It's one of the reasons your club fees are so high, and that's exactly where Precise Path's RG3 robot may help. It's designed to do the job ...READ»

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Ford's Active Park Assist Parallel Parks For You

Ford's Active Park Assist will be a boon to those drivers--you know who you are--who just can't get their brains around parallel parking no matter how hard they try, or their partners try to teach them. That's because it does the ...READ»

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Skytap iPhone Demo; a Virtual Lab for Enterprise Apps

Steve Brodie, Chief Products Officer at Seattle's Skytap, shows off how to spin up a virtual lab and what it does for you. Later Aaron Brethorst, program manager, shows me the Skytap service running on an iPhone and how you can ...READ»