Some fast-food companies have begun experimenting with robotic technology that would considerably reduce the employment of restaurant workers who are currently protesting against the corporate chains demanding higher wages.
The Pew Research Internet Project just released one of the most interesting reports in a while - a study of American views on the future of technology in the next 50 years. What Pew found was that most Americans are optimistic, but interestingly, a lot are skeptical about some technologies that Google happens to be working on.
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have constructed cube-shaped modular bots, M-Blocks robots, which can move, jump, crawl all over each, and self-assemble –though they have no external moving parts.
