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Democrat House Threatens New Mass Amnesty

The servants of the open-borders elite never sleep, as we see from the most recent attempt at illegal alien amnesty from the Congress, the so-called Farm Workforce Modernization Act of 2019, aka HR5038.

The idea that more foreign workers would be “modernization” on the farm is particularly ironic, since agricultural automation technology has been advancing […]

Self-Driving Cars Still Are Not Ready for Prime Time

Tech nerds may remember back to 2012 when the billionaire founder of Google predicted that self-driving cars would be a thing very soon: (Cnet: Google’s Sergey Brin: You’ll ride in robot cars within 5 years).

But it hasn’t happened, not even close. Maybe the brainiacs of Silicon Valley couldn’t anticipate the vagaries of normal street […]

Robots Are Lowering Wages, According to Study

The Federal Bank of San Francisco recently sent around a letter asking, Are Workers Losing to Robots?

It turns out that not only are humans being replaced by smart machines, but workers are also getting reduced paychecks even in the booming jobs economy because of automation in the workplace.

The Fed report starts out:

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Humanoid Robot Does Gymnastics

Boston Dynamics is a company that likes its robots to walk around, either on two legs or four.

Its four-leggers trot around sort of like headless critters that can carry things, and the two-leggers are now doing amazing athletic movements. The most recent flips and hops are quite impressive— check out the video of […]

Expert Expresses Concerns with Safety of Self-Driving Vehicles

The Gold Rush toward domination of the future self-driving vehicle market continues with enthusiasm. The reticence that occurred after a deadly Arizona accident in 2018 appears to have faded, at least according to a recent CBS story. In fact, the article begins by saying, “The race to create the self-driving car continues at a feverish […]

Self-Driving Car Introduction Will Be Postponed

Serious technical difficulties regarding the safety of autonomous vehicles have been noticed by the executives who run automotive development, according to the New York Times.

Apparently, the real world of city streets has proved to be more complicated than the simple suburbs of the Silicon Valley area, where initial self-driving tests were run.

Below, Google’s […]

Farm Robots Advance in Technology with Increased Autonomy

Bloomberg reports that farm robots are coming on strong, and that assessment makes perfect sense. The tasks of smart agricultural machines are generally simple and distinct, like weeding, plowing, spraying and picking: unlike self-driving cars, safety issues are minimal because human workers have disappeared from automated fields.

In addition, recent robots have become increasingly autonomous, […]

Lion Air Crash Was Caused by Incorrect Sensor Readings and Automated Response

Here’s the kind of automation fail nobody wants to see. A jetliner crashed and killed all 189 people on board last month as the pilots struggled unsuccessfully to wrest control from the plane’s own computer system.

Below, debris recovery in the Java Sea.

It’s not the first time the mismatch between airliner computers […]

Robot Installs Drywall

The Advanced Industrial Science and Technology Institute (AIST), a Japanese research facility based in Tokyo, has put out a video that’s receiving a lot of attention on the internet:

The Japanese are particularly positive toward automation generally, because of their lack of population growth (no immigration!) and hence fewer worker humans coming online in […]

Apple Expands Its Self-Driving Fleet

In the future, it’s possible we will see cars as computers with wheels and may shop accordingly for a self-driving vehicle that matches up with our laptop — particularly now that Apple is becoming a bigger player in that segment of the automated future. The company appears to be upping its interest in the self-driving […]

California: Self-Driving Taxis Are Planned

While there are skeptics about the self-driving project who think it will require more time and testing to materialize, top corporations are taking concrete steps to move forward. Billion-dollar companies see autonomous vehicles as the future of transportation and they don’t want to be left behind.

Two major automakers have recently announced their intention to […]

MIT’s Self-Driving Car Can Navigate Country Roads

Machines keep getting smarter and more capable of performing jobs formerly done by humans. One recent upgrade to self-driving tech comes from MIT where they have figured out how the cars can maneuver country lanes. Up to this point, companies like Google have tested their vehicles in big cities where they have mapped the exact […]

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