Robotics Stories for 2017

Robots Are Being Used To Shoo Away Homeless People In San Francisco 422
After Automating Order-Taking, Fast Food Chains Had to Hire More Workers 234
Russia Says It Will Ignore Any UN Ban of Killer Robots 132
375 Million Jobs May Be Automated By 2030, Study Suggests 236
Scientists Have Built Robot Muscles That Can Lift 1,000 Times Their Own Weight 119
Famous Robot from 1956 Movie Auctioned For $5.3 Million 64
Is Sharp's Robot Vacuum Cleaner Vulnerable To Remote Take-over? 42
Google's Eric Schmidt Says People Want Dish-Washing Robots To Clean Up the Kitchen More Than Any Other Kind 277
Six Years After Fukushima, Robots Finally Find Its Reactors' Melted Uranium Fuel 220
Musk-Backed 'Slaughterbots' Video Will Warn the UN About Killer Microdrones 252
'Robots Are Not Taking Over,' Says Head of UN Body of Autonomous Weapons 77
Study Finds Robot Surgeons Are Actually Slower and More Expensive 44
Ford Pilots a New Exoskeleton To Lessen Worker Fatigue 48
Wall Street's Research Jobs Are the Most Likely To Be Upended By AI 66
Walmart Tests Shelf-Scanning Robots In Over 50 Stores 76
Sony Reportedly Announcing New Robot Dog Next Month 45
The Factory Where Robots Build Robots 59
See Giant Robots Fight. US vs Japan Match On YouTube 50
Bankers Publicly Embracing Robots Are Privately Fearing Job Cuts 183
Ray Kurzweil Explains Why Technology Won't Eliminate Human Jobs 409
Inside Amazon's Warehouses: Thousands of Senior Citizens and the Occasional Robot Mishap 147
Scientists Create World's First 'Molecular Robot' Capable of Building Molecules 86
'Bodega' CEO Apologizes, Insists They'll Create More Jobs 155
You Are Already Living Inside a Computer 82
As Robots Move Into Amazon's Warehouses, What's Happening To Its Human Workers? 237
Swarms Of Flying Robot Bees Could Monitor Weather, Collect Data 60
Only 13 Percent of Americans Are Scared Robots Will Take Their Jobs, Gallup Poll Shows 267
New T-Shirt Sewing Robot Can Make As Many Shirts Per Hour As 17 Factory Workers 409
South Korea Moves Towards The World's First 'Robot Tax' 83
Domino's Market Tests A Self-Driving Pizza Delivery Car 145
Autonomous Forklift May Eat Up Warehouse Jobs 122
Bricklaying Robots and Exoskeletons Are the Future of the Construction Industry 228
Elon Musk Backs Call For A Global Ban On Killer Robots 214
AI Factory Boss Will Tell Workers and Robots How To Work Together 54
MegaBots Is Finally Going To Take On Japan In the World's First Giant Robot Duel 38
Football-Playing Robots Compete At RoboCup 2017 38
A Robot At DEFCON Cracked A Safe Within 30 Minutes 128
The Inside Story of the Lily Drone's Collapse 141
Top US General Warns Against Rogue Killer Robots 164
Y Combinator Announces Funding For UBI-Supporting Political Candidates 195
'World's First Robot Lawyer' Now Available In All 50 States 79
Google Funds A Team Of Robot Journalists 43
'Call For a Ban On Child Sex Robots' 597
Central Bankers Warned Of Possible Economic 'Robocalypse' 238
Amazon Robots Poised To Revamp How Whole Foods Runs Warehouses 97
McDonald's Hits All-Time High As Wall Street Cheers Replacement of Cashiers With Kiosks 632
Curiosity Rover Decides, By Itself, What To Investigate On Mars 73
Just 14 People Make 500,000 Tons of Steel a Year in Austria 175
Jack Ma: In 30 Years People Will Work Four Hours a Day and Maybe Four Days a Week 472
Amazon Says It Won't Replace Whole Foods Cashiers With Computers... Yet 109
Roomba Inventor Launches 'Tertill', a Weed-Killing Robot For Your Garden 116
How Lego Clicked: The Super Brand That Reinvented Itself 191
Google Has Finally Found a Buyer For Its Scary Robot Companies Boston Dynamics and Schaft: SoftBank 50
'Our Streets Are Made For People': San Francisco Mulls Ban On Delivery Robots 219
EU Commissioner Says No to Bill Gates' Robot Tax Idea 128
Walt Mossberg's Last Column Calls For Privacy and Security Laws 96
Robot Police Officer Goes On Duty In Dubai 49
Consumers Trust Robots For Surgery Over Savings, Research Finds 70
Robots Could Wipe Out Another 6 Million Retail Jobs 280
A Lowe's Hardware Store Is Trialling Exoskeletons To Give Workers a Helping Hand 48
WSJ Columnist: Robots Aren't Destroying Enough Jobs 389
San Francisco Politician Jane Kim Is Exploring a Tax On Robots 239
Credit Suisse Deploys 20 Robots Within Bank 38
VC Founder Predicts AI Will Take 50% Of All Human Jobs Within 10 Years 451
Humans Are Already Harassing Security Robots 184
Wired Founding Editor Now Challenges 'The Myth of A Superhuman AI' 284
MIT Creates 3D-Printing Robot That Can Construct a Home Off-Grid In 14 Hours 62
Washington State Orchard Owners Look To Robots As Labor Shortage Worsens 137
Billionaire Jack Ma Says CEOs Could Be Robots in 30 Years, Warns of Decades of 'Pain' From AI 287
Chinese Warehouse Cut Labor Costs In Half With a Fleet of Tiny Robots 130
Russia Wants To Send A Gun-Shooting Robot To The ISS 141
A New Survey Shows Consumers Are Not That Freaked Out By Tech 52
AI Programs Exhibit Racial and Gender Biases, Research Reveals 384
Japan Automakers Look To Robots To Keep Elderly On the Move 40
RightHand Robotics Automates a New Type of Warehouse Work: Recognizing, Picking Up Items From Boxes 56
GM Hooking 30,000 Robots To Internet To Keep Factories Humming 126
Can Robots Help Children With Autism? 52
Robots Could Solve the Lionfish Ecological Disaster 20
New UBI Program Launches In Canada To 'Define Our Future' 300
Fear of Robots Taking Jobs in the Short Term is Overblown, Says General Electric CEO 99
Evidence That Robots Are Winning the Race for American Jobs 396
US Workers Face A Higher Risk Of Being Replaced By Robots 285
Steve Wozniak Invests In Robot-Powered Paper-Digitizing Startup 54
BMW Says Self-Driving Car To Be Level 5 Capable In Five Years 149
America May Miss Out On the Next Industrial Revolution 297
If American Robots Had Their Own Economy, It'd Be Bigger Than Switzerland 54
A Rogue Robot Is Blamed For a Human Colleague's Gruesome Death 407
Backlash Builds Against Bill Gates' Call For A Robot Tax 392
Report: Up To 15% Of Twitter Accounts Are Bots 50
Google's reCAPTCHA Turns 'Invisible,' Will Separate Bots From People Without Challenges 160
Robots in Warehouses To Jump 15X Over Next 4 Years 125
What Happens When Robots Can Deliver Your Groceries? 136
More Fast Food Restaurants Are Now Automating 440
Virginia Becomes First State To Legalize Delivery Robots 38
Skin deep? Robots To Wear Real Human Tissue 77
'Robots Won't Just Take Our Jobs -- They'll Make the Rich Even Richer' 644
Boston Dynamics Reveals Handle, A Robot That Is 6 Feet Tall, Lifts 100 Pounds, and Jumps Up To 4 Feet 81
Supersmart Robots Will Outnumber Humans Within 30 Years, Says SoftBank CEO 231
Study Reveals Bot-On-Bot Editing Wars Raging On Wikipedia's Pages 98
Uber's Self-Driving Cars Are Now Picking Up Passengers in Arizona 122
New Kit Turns A Raspberry Pi Into A Robot Arm 36
Bill Gates: The Robot That Takes Your Job Should Pay Taxes 388
EU Moves To Bring In AI Laws, But Rejects Robot Tax Proposal 72
Elon Musk: Humans Need To Merge With Machines Else They Will Become Irrelevant in AI Age 251
Excessive Radiation Inside Fukushima Fries Clean-Up Robot 307
'We Need Robots To Take Our Jobs,' Veteran Tech Reporter John Markoff Explains Why 318
Are Robots Coming To Take Investor Jobs on Wall Street? 142
Are Gates, Musk Being 'Too Aggressive' With AI Concerns? 311
Leaked Video Shows New 'Nightmare-Inducing' Wheeled Robot From Boston Dynamics 119
Can A Robot Fool 'I Am Not A Robot' Captchas? 54
DragonflEye Project Wants To Turn Insects Into Cyborg Drones 78
Tiny New Robots Perform Eye Surgery 52
Robotic Sleeve Mimics Muscles To Keep a Heart Beating 41
NASA Is Making New Robots That Can Control Themselves 45
Drone Maker Lily Robotics Faked Promotional Video, Gets Sued For False Advertising and Misleading Business Practices 39
Half the Work People Do Can Be Automated, Says McKinsey 409
Europe Calls For Mandatory 'Kill Switches' On Robots 173
Pentagon Successfully Tests Micro-Drone Swarm 113
A Squishy Clockwork BioBot Releases Doses of Drugs Inside the Body 15
Amazon's Robot Workforce Grows By 50 Percent In Just One Year 49
Japanese White-Collar Workers Are Already Being Replaced by Artificial Intelligence 370