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Easily programmable robot interfaces have the potential to transform manufacturing by reducing the amount of programming expertise required to use robotic systems. Lowering the barrier to use robots in this way could have vast implications for manufacturing including reducing the integration and reintegration time for robots on manufacturing lines, increasing the reusability of robots by making it easier repurpose them, and making robots more accessible to small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) who often do not have the required internal programming expertise to use robots.

Presented by the MIT Task Force on the Work of the Future, the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, and the MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy.

Oren Cass is a Senior Fellow at the Manhattan Institute in New York. He will be discussing his latest book, The Once and Future Worker: A Vision for the Renewal of Work in America.

Ellen Ruppel Shell is a Professor at Boston University’s College of Communication. She will be discussing her latest book, The Job: Work and its Future in a Time of Radical Change, on October 23rd from 4:30-6:00 pm.

Mary Gray is a Senior Researcher at Microsoft Research and a Fellow at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society. She is also the author of Ghost Work, How to Stop Silicon Valley from Building a New Global Underclass on September 11th from 4:30- 6:00pm.

Participants Barbara Dyer, Senior Lecturer, MIT Sloan School of Management Erik Brynjolfsson, Director, MIT Initiative on the Digital Economy, and Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management Daniela Rus, Director MIT CSAIL, and Professor, MIT EECS Elisabeth B. Reynolds, Executive Director, MIT IPC Sanjay Sarma, Vice President for Open Learning, MIT, and Professor, MIT Department of […]

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