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NEXT: The Future of Manual Labor

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By David Staley
| Columbus Underground Verified
If you follow this link, you can see a video from Figure Robotics showing a package sorting contest between a human and Helix-02, one of its robots. The robot takes human form, although it has no facial features. But it’s the hands. Look at the hands. This man-versus-machine competition involves sorting packages, as one might see at a warehouse or maybe a postal branch.
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NEXT: Malls Into Neighborhoods

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By David Staley
| Columbus Underground Verified
I was living in Columbus when the City Center Mall was opened. At last, we were a Big City! I remember a local anchorwoman reporting from the opening, tears welling in her eyes, announcing to the local television audience that the kinds of stores and shopping experiences promised by City Center would mean we would no longer have to travel to Chicago (whether anyone actually did this is another story). Malls were once a big deal.
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Next: The Mobility of Pop-Up Retail, Libraries and More

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By David Staley
| Columbus Underground Verified
I was a precocious child, I’ll admit, and one way I performed such precocity was when the bookmobile arrived at my elementary school. I attended a small, very rural school with a “library” about the size of a jail cell, scattered with a few books, many of which I had already read. I assumed my school had no library budget, since hardly any new books arrived and it seemed to be staffed by volunteer mothers.
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