Fri, 22 May 1998 08:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 08:17:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Franklin Wayne Poley Subject: Unions for Robots? (fwd) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Fri, 22 May 1998 08:07:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Franklin Wayne Poley To: workfare-discuss@icomm.ca Subject: Unions for Robots? Rifkin is not far off the mark when he writes in his book, "The End of Work" that factory jobs will be obsolete by 2025. Indeed it is possible that ALL jobs done to-day will be replaced by automation-robotics by 2025. Japan's national "Humanoid Project" should have humanoid robots walking around by that time, looking like humans and doing the jobs that humans do. What can the labour movement do then? Well, how about "organizing/unionizing/managing" the robots? FWP. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 20 May 1998 16:54:15 +0100 From: Luca Gambardella To: autonomous-robots@ai.mit.edu Subject: Position Available in Collective Robotics =============================== POST DOC POSITION AVAILABLE =============================== IDSIA - (http://www.idsia.ch) Istituto Dalle Molle di Studi sull'Intelligenza Artificiale, Lugano, Switzerland RESEARCH ASSOCIATE http://www.idsia.ch/luca/opening_coll_rob.htm In Collective/Cooperative Autonomous Robotics For a period of 1 year, starting summer 1998, with possible extensions. Candidates for this position need to have a PhD in Mobile Robotics and experience with learning and/or adaptation paradigms or a PhD in Computer Science and basic knowledge of mobile robotics. Experience with real robot is appreciated. IDSIA's research focuses on artificial neural nets, reinforcement learning, combinatorial optimization, evolutionary computation. More precisely, IDSIA is involved with LAMI EPFL (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology of Lausanne) in a project supported by Swiss National Science Foundation concerning with "Methodology for Collective Robot Design". The goal is to study how to combine reactive behaviour with learning or adaptation capabilities in order to obtain complex, robust and perhaps emergent group behaviors with a team of simple robots. SALARY: commensurate with experience - There is travel funding in case of papers accepted at important conferences. DEADLINE: June 15th 1998 Applications (including curriculum vitae, names and addresses of at least three references, and a list of publications) should be sent to the following address, where also further information can be obtained: Luca Maria Gambardella IDSIA C.so Elvezia 36 6900 Lugano Switzerland Phone : +41 91-911 98 38 Fax : +41 91-911 98 39 email: luca@idsia.ch http://www.idsia.ch/luca ==== autonomous-robots@ai.mit.edu is a moderated mailing list please send comments to owner-autonomous-robots@ai.mit.edu subscription information to autonomous-robots-request@ai.mit.edu