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To really help US workers, we should invest in robots

  • Written by Nikolaus Correll, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, University of Colorado
imageUniversity students experiment with human-robot interaction and autonomous manipulation, two elements of manufacturing's future.Nikolaus Correll, CC BY-ND

America’s manufacturing heyday is gone, and so are millions of jobs, lost to modernization. Despite what Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin might think, the National Bureau of Economic...

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