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A robot does not have to be intelligent to perform mechanical tasks. Artificial intelligence, however, can reduce the need for human guidance, allowing robots to make decisions and take actions on their own. But how much autonomy do we want to grant them?

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Cloud Labs: Where Robots Do the Research

A host of companies provide a remote, automated workforce for conducting experiments around the clock.
Carrie Arnold
Nature, 2023
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One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
Jonathan Waldman
Avid Reader Press, 2020
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Robots Are People Too

How Siri, Google Car, and Artificial Intelligence Will Force Us to Change Our Laws
John Frank Weaver
Praeger, 2013
8 Book

Rise of the Robots

Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Martin Ford
Basic Books, 2015
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Intelligent Machines That Learn Like Children

Machines that learn like children provide deep insights into how the mind and body act together to bootstrap knowledge and skills
Diana Kwon
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9 Article

Are Robots Competing for Your Job?

Probably, but don’t count yourself out.
Jill Lepore
The New Yorker, 2019
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Bio-Techne

Half-human soldiers, robot servants and eagle drones – the Greeks got there first. Could an AI learn from their stories?
Adrienne Mayor
Aeon, 2016
7 Book

The Care and Feeding of Bots

An Owner’s Manual for Robotic Process Automation
Christopher Surdak
Ouray Mills Publishing, 2020
8 Book

The Fourth Age

Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
Byron Reese
Atria Books, 2018
9 Book

The Globotics Upheaval

Globalization, Robotics, and the Future of Work
Richard Baldwin
Oxford UP, 2019
8 Article

Witnessing a Wearables Transition

Assistive robots must mimic human dynamics and move toward neural-interface control.
José L. Pons
Science, 2019