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Marketplace Weekend for Friday, July 31, 2015
Jul 31, 2015

Marketplace Weekend for Friday, July 31, 2015

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In this week's show, the economy of personal robots, the job market for drone pilots and the everyday robots that already surround us. Molly Wood, senior tech correspondent, rides in the gunner's seat of a 15,000-pound combat MegaBot and fires its missile launcher. 

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Life as a busker bot in Hollywood

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He calls himself the Gold Man.

The state of the market for consumer robots

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Autonomous weapons and the eventual robot uprising

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Stephen Hawking, Elon Musk and others signed a letter to ban, yes, killer bots.

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In this week’s show, the economy of personal robots, the job market for drone pilots and the everyday robots that already surround us. Molly Wood, senior tech correspondent, rides in the gunner’s seat of a 15,000-pound combat MegaBot and fires its missile launcher.