The Core

Bill, is that the right link?

Oops.   It is now.

.It’s 6-foot-2, with laser eyes and vise-grip hands. It can walk over a mess of jagged cinder blocks, cut a hole in a wall, even drive a car

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/ready-to-lend-a-hand-or-3-in-the-next-disaster/2015/05/16/2ea78a16-fa6c-11e4-9ef4-1bb7ce3b3fb7_story.html

(Warning: video less impressive than it sounds)

3d printed robot opens combination locks in 30 seconds

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/this-little-3-d-printed-robot-cracks-combination-118967003179.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WO_f7_1z4A
First 30 seconds.

Carnegie Mellon lost 40 robotics engineers to Uber.
"Something tells me they're not going to be hiring a lot more new drivers pretty soon."

This article is claiming that driverless cars will wipe out ~4 million jobs and $148 billion in wages.

The thing with robots...making them more "human" looking makes me freak out more.  I could not stay at that hotel in Japan that's run by human-looking robots or even deal with the ones that just "sorta" look human-like (the obvious machine looking ones that have a "head.")

Honestly, it triggers my lizard-brain fear response:  it's not rational at all, but the fear is there.

The thing with robots...making them more "human" looking makes me freak out more. 

Well known effect usually referred to as the Uncanny Valley
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncanny_valley