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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
OFWs
Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) indicate the economic potential of the Filipino workforce that is also a potential for ministry and mission. The economic potential is such that remittances from OFWs comprise 10 percent of the Philippines' Gross Domestic Product. The...
Your robot: Coming to a home near you
Via the Economist, in what seems like an economic recovery, the seeds of the next recession may be found: "...sooner or later, policymakers will face another downturn. The danger is that, having used up their arsenal, governments and central banks will not have the...
The Robot Reality: Service Jobs Are Next to Go
Via Drudge and CNBC: Many experts worry about what robots in the service sector could do to employment. The national unemployment rate remains at 7.7 percent – not remotely close to the 4.7 percent unemployment in 2007 before the recession. Job growth isn't expected...
The Robot Reality: Service Jobs Are Next to Go
Via Drudge and CNBC: Many experts worry about what robots in the service sector could do to employment. The national unemployment rate remains at 7.7 percent – not remotely close to the 4.7 percent unemployment in 2007 before the recession. Job growth isn't expected...
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Via The Burning Platform: If consumers, who account for 71% of the economy, aren’t spending, and small business owners, who do 65% of all the hiring in the country, are petrified with insecurity, why is the stock market hitting all-time highs and the corporate media...
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Via The Burning Platform: If consumers, who account for 71% of the economy, aren’t spending, and small business owners, who do 65% of all the hiring in the country, are petrified with insecurity, why is the stock market hitting all-time highs and the corporate media...
Humanoid Robots Interviewing Children
Via Robots.net: The KASPAR humanoid robot, developed at the University of Hertfordshire has previously been used in studies of human robot interaction with normal and autistic children robots.net - Humanoid Robots Interviewing Children Human-robot interaction will be...
Clearpath Robotics Announces Grizzly Robotic Utility Vehicle
Via IEEE - Clearpath definitely wasn't fooling around when they designed the Grizzly: it's got four high-torque motors, huge 26" tires, enough ground clearance to give a startled gopher ample headroom, and is perfectly happy to operate in environments where sneezes...