Igor Delovski Board

[Ike]

Love's Labour's Lost: How Robots Will Revolutionise Human Intimacy

http://www.philosophersbeard.org/2013/12/loves-labours-lost-how-robots-will.html

[Ike]

bruegel.org - The computerisation of European jobs

"The key takeaway is this: even though the European policy impetus
remains to bolster residually weak employment statistics, there is an
important second order concern to consider: technology is likely to
dramatically reshape labour markets in the long run and to cause
reallocations in the types of skills that the workers of tomorrow will
need. To mitigate the risks of this reallocation it is important for our
educational system to adapt."

[delovski]

Male sex robots with 'bionic penis' to offer ultimate pleasure experience

"Robot blokes will be armed with batteries and eventually will be able to be
electrically charged to keep them going for as long as they are needed, top
CEO of luxury sex doll company Matt McMullen revealed."

[Ike]

https://np.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/5jtfan/coal_jobs_were_lost_to_automation_not_trade/dbjjslr/?

[delovski]

r - Harvard's wearable robot

"Harvard's soft exosuit, a wearable robot, lowered energy expenditure in
healthy people walking with a load on their back by almost 23% compared to
walking with the exosuit powered-off. Such a wearable robot has potential to
help soldiers and workers, as well as patients with disabilities."

[Ike]

What I think other explanations are neglecting to mention is the change in machine learning. Automation has been a thing for a very long time, but computers have not been powerful enough, and we haven't yet had the methods to teach computers to do tasks. That is what is so different about automation today.

https://np.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/5s5gfd/eli5_why_is_automaton_suddenly_a_big_deal_hasnt/ddcnedg/

[Ike]

https://seenews.com/news/japans-yaskawa-buys-land-for-robotics-factory-in-slovenia-559432

Japan's Yaskawa buys land for robotics factory in Slovenia

The factory's production will satisfy between 70 and 80% of demand for industrial robots on the European market, the government noted.