Last week, Hayden talked all things automation with robotics experts Ayanna Howard, dean of Ohio State University's College of Engineering (and former NASA roboticist), and Clara Vu, cofounder and CTO of VEO Robotics. ICYMI: Below is the event replay, and even further below are some written takeaways. Where robots excel: repetition, strength, speed, and precision. Vu said this is why most commercially successful robots are focused on industrial applications, like agriculture, mining, and manufacturing. "When you talk to people who spend their lives trying to make robots do stuff, they really tend to come away with a deep appreciation for how amazing people are--and how far we are from understanding how to make machines do what we do," Vu said.

Catch up on what you might have missed at MAICON 2019, held at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland from July 16 - 18.

Catch up on what you might have missed at MAICON 2019, held at the Huntington Convention Center of Cleveland from July 16 - 18.

The history of robots taking over human jobs is long and littered with doomsday predictions. Just last May, mega-manufacturer Foxconn reportedly replaced 60,000 workers with automated technology. Amazon's warehouses thrive on machines that can move packages. And as Martin Ford, author of the New York Times bestseller Rise of the Robots tells it, this tech will only replace more jobs in the coming decade -- even in traditional white-collar office roles. Ford keynoted Orange Silicon Valley's "A.I. and the Future of Corporate Finance" event, which welcomed a panel of experts to OSV's Spear Street space to discuss the role that artificial intelligence has to place in bookkeeping and auditing operations.