Amazon's newest generation of warehouse robots is no longer a side experiment tucked into a few pilot facilities. The company now relies on automated systems across dozens of fulfillment and sortation ...

When people think about automation, the focus is almost always on what it takes away. They see it as machines taking over tasks, making jobs disappear. But there’s another side to the story that’s ...

There’s nothing new about worrying that machines will take our jobs. More than 200 years ago, Luddites started taking sledgehammers to weaving machines. But tech anxiety got a fresh jolt last month ...

What happens when two of Britain’s top neuroscientists and AI researchers sit down to talk about artificial intelligence? You don’t get the usual hype about machines taking over the world. Instead, ...

A 1963 Village Voice article noted that a new computer system at the Buildings Dept. suffered from a lack of keypunch operators.