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461. How to Stop Worrying and Love the Robot Apocalypse

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The Role of Cobots in Nursing Homes

Economist Karen eggleston wanted to test this theory. She and two colleagues analyzed data from eight hundred and sixty nursing homes in Japan. Different prefectures across japan subsidize cobots at different rates, some as high as fifty per cent. Egleston: "What we're really worried about are the lower skilled workers that might be completely replaced"...

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