We give robots some pretty scary and stressful jobs: cleaning up nuclear sites, inspecting pipelines from the inside, exploring the frozen wastes of Mars. The arrival of the coronavirus has transformed more familiar settings, like supermarkets and hospitals, into potentially hazardous surroundings as well. Erika Hayasaki, a writer and journalism professor in California, learned that the pandemic is leading some businesses to increase their automation plans to be able to aid front-line workers.
Her feature article appears in the July problem of MIT Technology Review. In this bout of Deep Tech, she describes her reporting on businesses in California and […]
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