Robots are coming to a town near you—deployed by cities to do work that is labor-intensive, repetitive or dangerous for humans. Cities have long lagged behind the private sector when it comes to ...

We’re not heading into a world with no work. We’re heading into a world with too much work and not enough people to do it. That’s why I believe the answer to "Will robots take our jobs?" is "yes." But ...

Amazon’s Pegasus robotic drive system retrieves finished packages from employees and sorts them for delivery. Pegasus is one of three kinds of robots Amazon uses in its warehouses. (Photo courtesy of ...

Robots are increasingly being used in restaurants for tasks like decorating cakes, delivering drinks and answering phones. Proponents argue robots fill vacant positions and increase efficiency, while ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. For decades, ...

TL;DR: Amazon has now deployed a million robots in its fulfillment centers, as well as introducing DeepFleet, a new generative AI model that optimizes robot navigation to enable faster, more ...

Artificial Intelligence and automation are often used interchangeably. While the technologies are similar, the concepts are different. Automation is often used to reduce human labor for routine or ...

As industrial robots and artificial intelligence spread through auto plants, you are watching a basic economic tension sharpen: if machines do more of the work, who still earns enough to buy the ...

There’s something ominous about robots taking over jobs that humans are suited to do. Maybe you don’t want a job turning a wrench or pushing a broom, but someone does. But then there are the jobs no ...

Manufacturing pressure shows up in familiar ways: weld quality can drift from one operator or shift to the next, you still ...