Future of Work
Vox’s coverage of the future of work: how we got here and what comes next.
Construction is one of the least-digitized industries in the world, and its productivity is suffering.
This wasn’t the first year that bots created more traffic than humans online.
It’s all about what comes next.
Anki CEO Boris Sofman talks about making a robot that can compete with pets on the latest Recode Decode.
Cheetahs, ostriches, octopi, cockroaches and humans.
The Labor Department has alleged the company is underpaying women.
But for how long?
The Anita Borg Institute told the car-hailing company it had to “end our current partner engagement.”
It will likely be used to bring food from farms and agricultural warehouses to cities.
Japanese prefer formal robots, according to a survey.
“When we go to competitions, we really don’t look like the other teams that are there.”
GGV Capital is leading the round into New York City-based Slice.
Meanwhile, other states are passing laws broadly permitting the robots statewide.
It flew for more than two hours.
As companies embrace automation to stay competitive, these changes will eventually create more jobs than they destroy.
First-quarter sales in 2017 jumped 32 percent from the same time last year.
Imagine if Uber could say, “We enabled one million food-shopping trips for low-income Americans who lacked good transportation options.”
A hacker could introduce a minor defect in manufacturing that could be catastrophic.
“We’re saying, you need to change the way you hire in order to be more inclusive.”
The company reported more profit than expected.
A new interface by researchers at Georgia Tech makes controlling a robot arm as easy as as tapping a touch screen.
From “The Jetsons” cartoons to the “Terminator” movies, we all have preconceived notions about robotics.
A robot is already as good as a human worker (for certain tasks) about two-thirds of the time.
New robot laws are popping up across the country.
Kimberly Salzer started at Ozobot this month.
Companies like LinkedIn, Intuit, Adobe and GE are experimenting with tech apprenticeship programs filled with diverse bootcamp grads.
Networks of drones, humanoids, wheeled robots and stationary smart cameras may one day keep watch.
Uber’s issues should have leadership everywhere asking, “How healthy is our culture?”
Code2040 CEO Laura Weidman Powers explains the biggest pitfalls on Recode Decode.
Marble’s ground-delivery robots may one day replace delivery drivers.
The Department of Labor has accused the company of “systemic compensation disparities.”
Surviving and thriving in this new industrial revolution will require never-before-seen collaboration across governments, corporations and educational institutions.
The security manager is known for organizing the Never Again pledge.
Job-stealing robots are steadily taking over America.
An early example of drone delivery in a populated urban area.
Many of the innovations that we take for granted are simply not available elsewhere.
No, you don’t have to tip a robot when it delivers your pizza.
The threat of robots taking our jobs is very real.
The company’s diversity is on par with the tech industry and that’s not great.