Japan’s government is actively pushing robots into jobs that workers increasingly refuse to do, from lifting elderly patients in nursing homes to running repetitive tasks at rural factories. The ...

Work is a curse, but don’t say it out loud — we’re trying to keep that secret from AI. Making money, on the other hand, is a blessing. And unfortunately, the two are often inseparable. If you’re ...

Decades ago, it was both the dream and assumption that humanoid robots would eventually take the place of human laborers in various industries and professions, particularly factories and assembly ...

Robots could take over 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world by 2030, economists claimed Wednesday. According to a new study from Oxford Economics, within the next 11 years there could be 14 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Humanoid robots are being used for some manual tasks at the Schaeffler auto parts plant in Cheraw, S.C. Proponents argue that the ...

Robots are rapidly transforming Chinese factories, taking over dirty, dangerous, and monotonous tasks often referred to as the “3D” jobs (dirty, dangerous, and dull), and reshaping the country’s ...