Robots Get a Sense of Touch – NY Times
Robots Mimic the Human Hand – NY Times
The Robot Reality: Service Jobs are Next – The Fiscal Times
What if Automation Overwhelms the Need for Employees? – Forbes
The Robots are Coming (podcast) – A Conversation with Matt Miller and Erik Brynjolfsson
TED Presentations/Debate on Future Innovation v. Stagnation – Andrew McAfee
New Initiative to Map the Human Brain – NY Times
What will Workers Do When Machines Take All the Routine Jobs? – Robohub
Willow Garage spinoff, Industrial Perception, Building Advanced Robots – Singularity Hub
Robots will Do Everything You Do — Only Better – Singularity Hub
Optimism Dims for the Middle Class – NY Times
Japan to Promote Nursing Care Robots – Bangor Daily News
Trading Algorithms Fall for Fake Twitter Post – NY Times
Campaign to Stop Killer Robots– Reuters
Robot Uncovers Ancient Burial Chambers Beneath Teotihuacan Temple – Huffington Post
Martin Ford 
In the Future, When Robots do All Our Work, What of Capitalism?
http://www.imponderablethings.com/2013/04/in-future-when-robots-do-all-our-work.html
Jaron Lanier, author of “Who Owns The Future?”, mentions Martin’s “The Lights in the Tunnel” (as well as Amazon reviews of the book).
The Internet Kills More Jobs Than It Creates
http://finance.yahoo.com/blogs/daily-ticker/internet-kills-more-jobs-creates-jaron-lanier-124549081.html
How Silicon Valley Is Hollowing Out the Economy (and Stealing From You to Boot)
http://business.time.com/2013/05/07/how-silicon-valley-is-hollowing-out-the-economy-and-stealing-from-you-while-theyre-at-it/
“We Need to Talk about the Burgeoning Robot Middle Class” – MIT Technology Review, Illah Nourbakhsh’s new book “Robot Futures” (May 14, 2013) –
http://www.technologyreview.com/view/514861/its-time-to-talk-about-the-burgeoning-robot-middle-class
http://singularityhub.com/2013/05/15/moshe-vardi-robots-could-put-humans-out-of-work-by-2045/
Article excerpt on Google’s Eric Schmidt & J. Cohen on new book, “The New Digital Age” –
http://mashable.com/2013/05/13/google-eric-schmidt-jared-cohen/
“The speakers ended the evening on a bit of career advice, saying that the U.S. desperately needs engineers. So desperate, said Schmidt, that it doesn’t even matter if you’re even a good one or not. Become an engineer and you will never have trouble finding a job, he said.”
Tell that to out of work engineers.
Tell it engineers training their immigrant replacements.
Yeah, agree w/ you Marlon, for me, 10+ years working in data centers for the largest telecoms. I’ve interviewed w/ Google 3 times over the last 5 years for an SA/SRE position & I couldn’t understand what the Google interviewer was saying because he couldn’t speak English very well. High turnover w/ Google recruiters too. Now I’m 50 (a ‘health risk’) w/ (seemingly) no future just looking to “stick it to those big, greedy corps that have betrayed us all”!
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2013/05/robot-econ-primer.html
LinkedIn article: You Can’t Make a Living Just by Solving Problems –
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130521085659-17102372-class-of-2013-you-can-t-make-a-living-just-by-solving-problems
http://www.wfs.org/blogs/thomas-frey/hi-i%E2%80%99m-robot-and-i%E2%80%99m-here-take-your-job
http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/01/after-your-job-is-gone/
“The burgeoning middle class of robots will leave us all jobless—if we let it” –
http://qz.com/91815/the-burgeoning-middle-class-of-robots-will-leave-us-all-jobless-if-we-let-it/
Good discussion here about AGI research. Do we allow machines to run things? Do we grant robots “human” rights? Do we merge with the One machine?
http://nextbigfuture.com/2013/07/ben-goertzel-is-on-mission-to-build-ai.html