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"Trusting robots with life and death decisions at a roadblock is sure to raise issues and questions of responsibility, especially in the event of so called "friendly fire""

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"The robotic soldier has been a Pentagon dream for 30 years. To achieve this, Pentagon planners have backed it to the hilt financially, allocating some $127bn [billion] to a project called Future Combat Systems, or FCS...."

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"American military planners predict such robots will in the future become the major fighting force in wars such as that currently being fought in Iraq."

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"Researchers are developing a robot that unfolds in your stomach. A magnet in one of its folds responds to a magnet outside the body and guides the robot to deliver medicine or repair a wound"(Kirk)

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"Robots are proving valuable on a hospital floor where mothers are in labor."(Kirk)

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"Engineers and psychologists at Rice University worked with IBM to develop a robot to improve elderly care. Using Watson technology, the robot can check a person’s heart and breathing. It can also tell if a person has fallen. A network of cancer research centers is also using Watson technology. Watson reads millions of research papers and treatment results. It gives doctors information from more sources than a human could ever read. This lets doctors give patients better treatment options"(Kirk)

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"A robotic arm has restored the sense of touch to a patient with a spinal cord injury. Surgeons implanted electrodes in his brain. These allow his robotic arm to serve as a braincomputer interface. A touch to a finger of his robotic arm sends a signal to his brain. Then he feels the touch in his corresponding living finger"(Kirk)

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"An interest in robotics could land you in the hospital. You might report to work there! And robots haven’t just invaded hospitals. They’re also keeping people healthy in their homes.

Hospitals are full of germs. But when a disinfecting robot comes shining its ultraviolet light, up to 99.9 percent of bacteria in a standard room are killed in about ten minutes"(Kirk)

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"While it is true that robots and automation are taking away entire categories of jobs across a multitude of industries, it has never been a better time for workers to get higher-skilled, higher-paying jobs as long as they become skilled and educated enough themselves to fill those roles." (Anthony)

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"Many people fail to realize that robots are actually creating new, high-paying jobs that require skilled workers. While it is true that robots are replacing low-skilled workers and automating the tasks that they perform, robots and automation are requiring jobs that focus workers on higher-value work."(Anthony)

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"Graetz and Michaels found that, on average, across the 17 countries, the increasing use of industrial robots over the time period raised the annual growth of GDP by 0.37%. They compared this substantial growth to the boosts in productivity that occurred at the turn of the 20th century from steam technology."(Anthony)

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"Higher living standards can come about through higher wages, lower pricing of goods and services, and an overall greater variety of products and services. Labor productivity growth, as measured as output per hour, is what leads these things to occur."(Anthony)

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"While it is certainly true that robots are replacing jobs and are a significant threat to low-skilled workers and somewhat of a threat to middle-skilled workers, there are many positive effects that robots have on the economy.(Anthony)

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"The robotic era may also force us to rethink our tendency to measure people's value solely in terms of their economic contributions. Robotics pioneer Hans Moravec has speculated that, by the year 2050, entire corporations will exist with no human employees, or investors, at all." (Brown)

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"IBM consulting uses a software program that chooses and allocates resources for projects better and faster than humans can. Cisco is using software programs to replace humans in human resources, finance, customer service, and other staff areas."(Brown)

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"Creative work may seem like precisely the sort of area where human workers will remain dominant."(Brown)

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" Othersourcing is now extending to many more white-collar jobs where the brain-work is becoming, or has already become, commoditized—even in the field of medicine and drugs. For example, you can buy software to do your taxes instead of having to go to an accountant."(Brown)

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"This trend, together with the extraordinary technological advances of recent years, is leading to a potentially massive shift of increasingly higher kinds of work to machines and software."(Brown)

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" "Over the next 10 years, the rate of IT [information technology] job loss that can be attributed to automation will be about double what we think will be due to outsourcing," says Neil MacDonald, analyst of the research and advisory company Gartner."(Brown)

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" “Associates and people in our builds are really good at finding where to put products in storage shelving,” he says. “Systems are not good at doing that"(Heater)

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"The space also offers a compelling glimpse into the factories of the future, where humans and robots work hand in hand, so to speak. The company currently has around 100,000 robotic systems deployed across more than 25 fulfillment centers, a number that it says has helped the company store an additional 40 percent of inventory in its fulfillment centers"(Heater)

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"The army of robots are walled in by fences that bring to mind nothing more than indoor batting cases. Around the edges, Amazon employees work at pick-and-stow stations, working alongside the robots to determine how best to store inventory on the shelving pods and how items will be shipped together"(Heater)

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"A 2014 Pew Research survey of nearly 2,000 experts found that 48 percent said they expected robots and artificial intelligence would have a significant impact on the economy by 2025."

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"For example, self-driving vehicles could threaten the livelihoods of the nation's 3 million truck drivers as the technology improves and becomes more widely incorporated over the next decade or so."

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" Forces of Change in the Post-Crisis World," said that over long periods of time, "it's not jobs that are destroyed but professions that are destroyed." "There will be some professions where the robots and automation and AI will come and basically take over," "

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"The company is also developing a mobile version of the squishy robot that can move along the ground, propelled by small electric motors that shift the rods and cables to change the bot’s center of gravity"(Metcalfe)

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"Agogino said the two-pound robot had been tested by dropping it from a height of 600 feet — and that it survived the fall without sustaining any damage. The device should be able to survive falls from even greater heights, she added"(Metcalfe)

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"The idea is that the shape-shifting device can be deployed from aircraft flying over areas hit by earthquakes, wildfires or spills of hazardous chemicals and then beam the information to first-responders, so they know exactly what they’ll face before they go in. Currently, that sort of information tends to be gathered by first responders themselves"(Metcalfe)

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"The hardy little bot, about two feet across, carries video cameras and electronic sensors within a ball-shaped lattice of rods and cables that cushion the sensitive gear from sharp blows — like smacking into the ground after falling from a great height"(Metcalfe)

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"Now, engineers in California have come up with a lightweight robot designed to be literally dropped into disaster zones, where it can gather potentially life-saving information about conditions on the ground"(Metcalfe)

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Can be dropped from large heights. Has sensors to see what the condition of the disaster zone is. Could detect gases etc.

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