Automation

The human workers whose jobs restocking the shelves at Walmart were nearly rendered obsolete by a sophisticated…

The recent mass shift to working from home hasn’t been easy for a lot of folks, so in order to help people manage…

It’s like an introvert’s dream: the ability to grab a cup of morning joe with zero human-ing involved.

The next Ghostbusters movie adds another mystery role to its cast. Disney previews the one scene you really wanna…

With the decade winding down it’s time for us to set our sights on the next one. The 2020s promises to be anything…

What actually happens to workers when a company deploys automation? The common assumption seems to be that the…

Over the next decade, U.S. banks, which are investing $150 billion in technology annually, will use automation to eli…

Despite what the inventors of the world want you to believe, not everything in your home needs to be intelligent,…

This week at Gizmodo, we took a long, hard look at what could have been with our Alternate Internet series,…

The third week of July 2019 is past us—and if you live in much of the Midwest or the East Coast, it’s been one…

Amazon made waves when it announced late last week that it planned to spend $700 million to retrain one-third of its…

2019 Comic-Con International: San Diego is coming this week, which means our team will be on the ground, providing…

If you want to get a sense of who, exactly, automation is working for right now, well, there’s a study for that.…

It’s early yet, but automation is already on track to become the most ignored issue this campaign cycle—outpacing…

Over the years, a number of companies have claimed to make “the first” smartphone-controlled, automated home grow…

Retail giants are increasingly turning over jobs and tasks performed in the past by human workers to a growing…

Sometimes the pitch-perfect example that totally proves your argument falls directly into your lap approximately…

Welcome! Welcome to June, which is not technically summer yet so far, but good enough to do the job so long as…

Listen: ‘Robots’ are not coming for your jobs. I hope we can be very clear here—at this particular point in time,…

That bipedal humanoid robot is named Digit. Say goodbye now, because you’ll never see one in person.