Touchscreens, conveyor belts: McDonald’s opens first largely automated location (2022)
Test restaurant near Fort Worth, Texas, has drawn ire of activists calling for living wage
Automation
Big tech’s push for automation hides the grim reality of ‘microwork’ (2021)
Impact of Robotics on Society
From viral conspiracies to exam fiascos, algorithms come with serious side effects (2020)
The next wave of coronavirus disruption? Automation (2020)
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The Guardian: Teaching a robot to do my job (and grimly cheering my obsolescence) (2020)
The Guardian: Robot panic peaked in 2015 – so where will AI go next? (2015)
The Guardian: Would you bet against sex robots? AI 'could leave half of world unemployed' (2016)
The Guardian: Is BB-8 a woman: why are we so determined to assign gender to AI? (2016)
The Guardian: Our tech future: the rich own the robots while the poor have 'job mortgages' (2016)
The Guardian: Rise of #MeTooBots: scientists develop AI to detect harassment in emails (2020)