YakobchukOlena | istock.com Introduction
One kind of robot has endured for the last half-century: the hulking one-armed Goliaths that dominate industrial assembly lines.
These industrial robots have been task-specific — built to spot weld, say, or add threads to the end of a pipe. They aren’t sexy, but in the latter half of the 20th century they transformed industrial manufacturing and, with it, the low- and medium-skilled labor landscape in much of the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Is your washing machine a robot? Is a modern high-end car a robot? It’s a little like Justice Potter Stewart’s definition of […]
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