Lunar New Year, China and Humanoid Robot
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Whirling nunchaku-wielding dervishes of destruction represent startling progress for China's robotics industry.
BEIJING — The Lunar New Year is coming, and China is on the move
China ushered in the Year of the Horse with a showcase of high-tech capabilities.
China’s birth rate has hit a historic low – deepening fears of a major economic shock in the decades to come as the country’s massive labor force dwindles and its population of pension-drawing retirees swells.
Comparisons and competitiveness among employees have been around as long as there have been workplaces. But those frictions are taking fresh shape as the use of artificial intelligence and robotics starts to spread through businesses.
Several companies are trying to bring humanoid robots to market, but this company just built an entire neighborhood in California. Here's what you need to know.
To his credit, Kasy is a realist here. He doesn’t presume that any of these proposals will be easy to implement. Or that it will happen overnight, or even in the near future. The troubling question at the end his book is: Do we have that kind of time?
More than half of jobs in manufacturing and transportation could be automated over the next 20 years, according to Oxford Economics.
One political activist calls plan to use robots to improve care for rural pregnant women and their babies a 'dystopian horror story.'