AI bots, jobs and workplace Automation

Outfitted with cameras and sensors, autonomous inventory robots can verify price signs and look for out-of-stock items. Inventory is one of the big... (2023)

Listen to this episode from The Indicator from Planet Money on Spotify. In today's classic, the robots take over the show from Cardiff and Stacey a... (2021)

A lot of people still get paid to sit in offices and do repetitive tasks. In recent years, however, employers have been pushing harder to find ways... (2018)

UiPath, a robotic process automation platform, has raised $225 million from CapitalG, Sequoia Capital, and Accel.  (2018)

When workers automate their own duties, who should reap the benefits? (2018)

Fast, accurate and no typos! Bloomberg News, The Washington Post and The Associated Press test out machine-generated journalism. (2019)

In public, executives wring their hands over automation’s negative consequences for workers. In private, they talk about how they are racing to aut... (2019)

Work management platform Asana today announced the launch of a new feature that will take the work out of some of the most mundane and repetitive t... (2019)

Robots to Cut 200,000 U.S. Bank Jobs in Next Decade, Study Says By Alfred Liu October 1, 2019, 10:52 PM EDT Industry spends $150 billion ann... (2019)