The Year in Robots, From Boston Dynamics to (RIP) Baxter

Published: Dec. 31, 2018, 4:32 p.m.

Depending on your perspective, 2018 either brought us closer to salvation by way of robots, or closer to doom by way of robots: Where some see the end of meaningless work, others see the end of humanity, also meaningless. (We\u2019re in the former camp, by the way.