web theory David Byrne: The secret appeal of technology is that it takes away the need to talk to people Cory Doctorow

automation This clumsy worker robot is having a very bad day Mark Frauenfelder

Food French aquaculturist sets up 24/7 live oyster vending machine Cory Doctorow

automation What happens on the tarmac when there's a shortage of baggage handlers David Pescovitz

Business American wages are so low, the robots don't want your job Cory Doctorow

video Watch soothing omnidirectional conveyor belts in action Andrea James

robots Robots and humans, working together in harmony? David Pescovitz

automation How will automation in the era of intelligent machines change society? Mark Frauenfelder

robots Robotic parcel sorting facility in China Mark Frauenfelder

robotics Meet Flippy, the burger-flipping robot David Pescovitz

robots What a 19th-century rebellion against automation can teach us about the coming war in the job market Mark Frauenfelder

Business When robots take routine middle-class jobs, those workers drop out of the workforce Cory Doctorow

class war Robots vs the middle class: everyone's endangered, white people less so Cory Doctorow

automation Video about Amazon Go, retail store with no checkout lines or registers Mark Frauenfelder

art Madeline Gannon's Mimus examines robot-human interdependence Andrea James

class war As sewbots threaten Asia's sweatshops, we need to decide who will benefit from automation Cory Doctorow

robots Meet your robot gardener David Pescovitz

happy mutants Take the Pew Future of the Internet Survey Cory Doctorow

videos Manual mail-sorting at the turn of the 20th century Cory Doctorow

class war Stephen Hawking: robots could give us all material abundance, unless rich people hoard all the wealth Cory Doctorow