The UK economy is at a pivotal moment. Two years on from Covid, and it remains the only country in the developed world where people have continued to drop out of the labour market in greater numbers beyond the pandemic. Rates of economic inactivity have risen and vacancies in the hospitality, health and technology sectors are proving hard to fill. The UK is experiencing new forms of polarisation between good and poor-quality work. How the government responds to the challenges the current jobs market presents is crucial.

Ayanna howard, roboticist, ACM Athena Lecturer, and dean of The Ohio State University College of Engineering, is optimistic about the ability of robots to help people. She understands the challenges that must be addressed for that to happen, and has worked throughout her career not just to advance the technical state of the art, but to quantify and overcome issues including trust and bias in artificial intelligence (AI). Here, she talks about self-driving cars, accessible coding, and how to incorporate different perspectives into hardware and software design. The pandemic heightened public interest in robots--suddenly, we all want robot cleaners and robot grocery deliverers and so on. How is that impacting the robotics community?

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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your Automaton bloggers. We'll also be posting a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months; here's what we have so far (send us your events!): Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. NASA is sending a small helicopter to Mars in 2020, and it managed to get airborne in a simulated Martian atmosphere without crashing or exploding. I really want to get excited about this thing, and from a technology perspective, I am.

When her husband lost his factory job in 2010, Kristy Milland ran through her options. Until that point, she'd been working at home, earning extra money through odd jobs like selling collectables on eBay. She hadn't waited on tables, had no experience in fast food, and had not learned any skills that might be particularly useful in a factory. She'd once applied for a job at McDonald's, but nobody had called her for an interview. Jobs were more difficult to find in her hometown of Toronto since the beginning of the Great Recession. But there was one place where Milland knew she could get work immediately.