By: Oscar Williams-Grut
June 09, 2016
There is no need to worry about whether robots might start taking our jobs. It’s already happening.
Three of the world’s 10 largest employers are already replacing tens of thousands of their workers with robots:
Foxconn, a key manufacturing partner for Apple, Google, and Amazon, is the world’s 10th largest employer and it has already replaced 60,000 workers with robots, according to a recent note written in part by analyst John Seagrimat CLSA.
Walmart, the third-largest global employer with 2.1 million workers, wants to replace its warehouse stock-checkers with flying drones that can scan miles of shelves in a fraction of the time.
And the US Department of Defense, the No.1 global employer, is already; flying the world’s largest fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles – drones, basically – in its various Middle East conflicts. The US DoD has at least 7,362 RQ-11 Ravens in operation for instance.