by admin | May 13, 2021
In the 1970s, democratic United States and authoritarian China began to witness trends in the regulation of workers’ collective rights that, today, have resulted in puzzling similarities. Both countries increasingly prioritised contractual arrangements between...
by admin | May 13, 2021
When a South Korean call centre decided to bring robots into the workplace, they asked Dr Sara Kim to study their employees’ response. The firm had told workers they would not be replaced, but it wanted to better understand their insecurities and perceptions of these...
by admin | May 13, 2021
The promise of robotics in healthcare is often equated with the development of self-driving cars. The latter technology has accelerated and these cars are now being tested on roads, although not without challenges. Could we one day have autonomous medical droids...
by admin | May 13, 2021
Robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) are changing in rapid and fundamental ways. Think back to AlphaGo, which was the first algorithmic program to defeat a human player of Go. That was barely six years ago, yet to Professor Xi Ning, Chair Professor of Robotics...
by admin | May 13, 2021
Professor Yuk-fai Fong is under no illusions about the challenges that automation presents to workers around the world. Robots, automation and artificial intelligence (AI) are threatening jobs – indeed, in 2019 Oxford Economics predicted up to 20 million manufacturing...
