Alec Ross: COVID unleashes robots – and the hit on America's workforce will be enormous

Stanford University robotics experts developed the tech for uses like navigating small spaces in search and rescue missions. The findings were announced in a scientific journal today. The robots of the cartoons and movies from the 1970s will be the reality of the 2020s. This pandemic has massively accelerated investment and developments in artificial intelligence and this will have far-reaching implications on the American workforce. I saw this firsthand when I visited a factory where a company was packaging pharmaceuticals.