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Robot Overthrow or Overcapacity?
The New Yorker paired reviews of two new books in an article that suggests that automation is not taking over human jobs…but not in the usual way. That is, one side says that automation is on the rise and will take over a lot of the tasks currently done by humans, leaving people with fewer... […]
Rethinking Cybersecurity
Manufacturing is much more vulnerable to cyber attacks than in the past. More data is collected, more of it is decentralized, and more cybercriminals are at work. There are also more third parties gaining access to factories and their data. Human error is still number one While movies might make us think that the average... […]
How Big Are Robots?
There are tiny nanorobots, but how big are those big robots in the movies? Those are fictional robots, or mechas to be precise. There are some pretty big robots in the real world, too. A Japanese robot built a couple of years ago tips the scales at 25 tons. But what factors determine the size... […]