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Why Robots Aren’t a Real Threat to Jobs: Q&A With Rethink Robotics Founder Rodney Brooks

Rodney Brooks
July 29, 2016

Rodney Brooks, founder of Rethink Robotics, introduced the concept of cost-effective and collaborative robotics in manufacturing.  He explains why he believes robots like Rethink's Baxter and Sawyer won't endanger jobs.

 
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Robotics

Rethink Robotics is Freeing Robots From Their Cages

April 11, 2016
When the Czech writer Karel Capek started working on his science-fiction play R.U.R., he asked his brother Josef what he should call the humanlike machines at the center of the play. Josef, who was a poet, thought of robota, the Czech word for forced labor, and told Karel to call them robots.
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