Robots

End in sight.

Marketplace's David Brancaccio and his robot dog Wilson drive coast to coast without as much as a "hello" to fellow humans.

Sprinkles Cupcakes installs a robotic cupcake ATM.

Commentator Frances Frei says automation needs to improve the customer experience, not frustrate it.

If there's one industry where robots have tried and failed so far, it's hospitality -- seems humans prefer humans for hotel customer service.

When technology is married with high-skilled jobs, the result can fundamentally change things for the better.

Even creative work -- like journalism -- is up for robotization.

Fight it if you want, but the robots are coming. Marketplace’s David Brancaccio is embarking on a deep investigative experiment on how robots are taking over. Plus, what is the Instagrammiest Instagram photo?

Technology is -- by some economists' accounts -- causing a hollowing out of middle income jobs.

Almost halfway through his coast to coast, robot-fueled journey, David Brancaccio has to heat up dinner on his car's exhaust.