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• Robots to take over the workplace by 2018: Gartner

  ​Robots may start taking over the workplace as early as 2018, with almost half of new companies set to have more smart machines than employees, according to Gartner.
  

• Instead of robots taking jobs, A.I. may help humans do their jobs better

  Despite worries that robots will take jobs from humans, a group of researchers says what's more likely is that humans will eventually work cooperatively with cyber helpers.

• Study shows co-operative robots learn and adapt quickly through natural language

  A new study has shown how robots can learn and adapt quickly in their environments through natural language processing alone.

• In Pictures: Robots that cook, clean, sing and dance

  Cooking, learning language and doing the laundry are a few of the human skills demonstrated by.real humanoid bots featured in the National Geographic movie Robots.

• QUT launches robot with better vision and human smarts

  Robots that are perceptive and work with better reflexes alongside humans are the next big thing, according to a world-renowned roboticist at the Queensland University of Technology.

• We’ll have chips implanted in our bodies by 2040

  2040 will herald the decade of thought activation and mind control, and the work colleague we chat to at the watercooler might be a hologram.
  

• In Pictures: Get your resume past the robots - How to beat HR's mechanical gatekeepers

  You have two options when it comes to beating the automated systems that filter resumes: you can go through them, or you can go around them.

• MOOCs deliver robots for everyone

  The Queensland University of Technology (QUT) aims to bring robots to the masses through two massive open online courses (MOOCs) on robotics.

• Expect tech trouble to come in 2015

  As we start the New Year, let’s look ahead at some of the coming troubles and concerns of 2015.

• Humans versus machines: Who will be employed in future?

  Are we heading towards a world where humans will have to compete with machines? Futurist Ross Dawson addressed this concern at the Australian Computer Society's YITCon event in Melbourne this week, and spoke about how to stay ahead of the game when it comes to jobs in the future.

• Gartner says 38% of spend already outside of IT

  CIOs need to embrace technology startups inside their organisations as demand and control shifts away from IT and toward digital business units closer to the customer.
  

• RoboBees to Save US Agriculture

  What man breaks, man can fix ... at least, that's what we like to think. Consider, for example, bees. Bees of all species are dying off in the US and Europe and over the last few years we've seen the commercial beekeeping industry decimated by a syndrome called colony collapse disorder (CCD).

• It's Time to Leave the Driving to the Droids

  The best thing about driverless cars is that robots don't get distracted. CIO.com senior writer Tom Kaneshige explains why we should pry our fingers from the steering wheel and leave the road to self-driven cars.

• 'Freeing' robots: From 3D mapping to autonomous systems

  There isn't a radio-control handset in sight as a nimble robot briskly weaves itself in and out of the confined tunnels of an underground mine. Powered by ultra-intelligent sensors, the robot intuitively moves and reacts to the changing conditions of the terrain, entering areas unfit for human testing.

• In Pictures: Rise of humanoid robots

  From the new Bionic Man to robotic bartenders, machines are looking and acting more human that ever.