The anthropomorphic robot named hitchBOT sits on the shoulder of Highway 102 to begin its 6,000-kilometer cross-country journey, outside Halifax, Nova Scotia, July 27, 2014.
Reporters called it the robot, but its physical presence was hardly felt.
It was almost invisible, just a Microsoft Excel macro that could write a fairly detailed stock-market report that could then be edited and polished by a human journalist.But when Reuters introduced the robot to its newsroom in 2007 — just before the financial crisis — it was an early sign that manufacturing was not the only industry that automation was infiltrating.White-collar workers in fields […]
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